This makes me remember, years ago our quilt guild had a guest quilter (author, instructor). During her program she told about driving home from a lecture and teaching trip and coming upon a car accident that had just happened. Without thinking twice about it, she got out the quilts she had with her for her program and wrapped them around some of the accident victims. Yes, they got quite soiled, but as she said, they were needed and they were washable, so no big problem for her to use them. (She didn't lose any of the quilts during this, either!!)