Sure you could do this! Except you'll use them as an applique rather than the fabric from which the quilt is actually made.
Use some tulle, too, and maybe some very lightweight leather and some ribbon for ballet shoes and applique them in a big scene in the middle of the quilt.....sort of a commemorative quilt. Maybe you could also ask for a used leotard, too.
Design them as if they'd been left on the floor in the dance studio's dressing room.
One of my favorites quilts in our guild is of a Doctor's white coat appliqued onto a red/orange pieced background and it has all of the Hippocratic Oath written on and over the coat. What a memory!
Jan in VA
Last edited by Jan in VA; 04-18-2012 at 02:34 PM.