Originally Posted by
Mamaw322
I was recently gifted two large bags of fabric by a very nice lady in my neighborhood. When I got the fabrics home and was sorting through them, I discovered that 50 percent of them were polyester blends, the rest are cotton sheets, curtains, etc. I was able to pull out some cotton solids and prints. My first inclination was to get rid of the fabrics, but it is so hard to do! Has anyone used cotton sheets or blends to make quilts? I am thinking I might use some to make charity quilts. Opinion?
I have a lot of poly/blends, as I used to do a lot of garment sewing. Now I am in the process of cutting 4 1/2 " squares of the blends to fill the center of a faux cathedral window done in my late husbands' old denim jeans. The denim has been washed a gazillion times so I know it won't shrink and neither will the blends. It is a way of using up a bunch of scraps to get it it out of my stash and have something useful in the end run. I also finished a memory quilt in August that was made out of my husbands' dress shirts. There was only one shirt that was 100% cotton. The material from each shirt was nearly a yard. I used 8 shirts and have enugh materials left over for pillows or shams for the bed to match the quilt.
Last edited by dee1245; 02-12-2015 at 10:05 AM.