Quilts from Old Clothes
Podunk Princess posted a picture of her recycled men's shirt quilt on October 31, 2016, and got me to thinking. I'm all for recycling with the beautiful colors and designs in thrift shop clothes, but I get a shiver of apprehension because of the textures and content of the materials. I've seen beautiful old pieced quilts, well used, where one particular color had pretty much disintegrated.
For those of you with experience in this area, please give input. A few starter questions: what happens when you use a variety of fabric textures/thread counts/content; how does rayon behave for piecing; does it help to use stabilizer, and on which fabrics; what about 100% wool that has a stabilizer solidly affixed to it?