Map Quilts
 

I am planning to make a world map quilt for my granddaughter. She wants to be able to mark places she has been (or hopes to go). I have a pattern I can manipulate for size, but will either be a wall hanging or throw. I would love to use silk, but have read that it ravels, so am looking for other luxury fabrics that would work with raw edge applique. Any suggestions?

felted wool?

Not sure about fabrics for raw edge other that cotton and the felted wool mentioned above. Would you consider adding little charms of cars, boats, planes, trees, etc?

Some slippery fabrics like satins could have FrayCheck or something similar applied to the edges to stop fraying. Don't know what it would be like to sew through, though.

All good ideas! I like batiks, but not always happy with depth of color. Is there a particular type?

I have purchased some buttons in the shape of hearts, stars, etc. Where might I look for charms?

You can always use a woven fusible (if they still make it) and fuse it onto the back of any washable silky fabric. I would turn under the 1/4 seam allowance.

It would be interesting if you could get different fabrics that in some way represent the different countries and or continents. Of course it will be trickier for smaller countries, bit for the larger countries it would be be neat.

One of my future quilts will be a map of Canada. I will collect different fabrics to represent each province and territory.

here is a free pattern with instructions below it. It is for the US bet you can extrapolate the concept to the world.
https://www.fabric.com/creativity-he..._-us_map_quilt