MamaMay

Ok, so I have lots of 100% polyester, WOVEN fabric. (They are all the Christmas and Easter dresses from my daughter growing up). I want to make quilt out of them but don't have enough experience to say if that is even worth my time. I really want to know if anyone else has made a quilt that is made out of 100% polyester and how it has stood up. Photos would be lovely!


Any help?

TanyaL

Polyester wears like iron. It will be around centuries after cotton quilts are forgotten. It will be hard to hand quilt.

NikkiLu

If you are talking about polyester double knit - then yes, you can use it - a plain block would be best - and yes, it wears like iron. A friend made my DH and I a double sided double knit quilt to put on wooden bleachers at our local dirt track (stock car race track) - she machine quilted it and put some sort of batting in it and we would sit on it and not get splinters, etc. Don't know what ever happened to it but my guess is that it is still around somewhere - maybe a dog bed. One of our kids probably has it.

Holice

no reason not to use the 100 poyester WOVEN fabric for your quilt. You just have to handle it a bit differently from cotton - no hot irons etc and it tends to creep and shift a bit more but makes long lasting quits.

Pinkiris

I would suppose that you should use a ball point needle when sewing the blocks or whatever together. That way, you don't run the risk of "runs" in the knit fabric.

MamaMay

Nikkilu: No, it is woven, hence why woven was in all caps.... So not knit or double knit...

MamaMay

Pink iris: why would it run? It is woven... I didn't think woven fabric ran, only knit...

Lori S

I have made quilts from 100 percent poly... many many moons ago and they are all still in use. Just a couple of notes... lower your iron temp... and the poly will dull your rotary cutter blade faster than cotton.. so be prepared to change the blade after you are done. I made nine back before the rotary cutter was invented... but I do occasionally have to cut poly and it does noticably dull the blade.

AshleyR

My mammaw made a lot of quilts with the polyester she had left over from garments. Not the nice, rayon-kind of polyester, but the itchy, scratchy kind. They were hideous but very very warm!! They were backed with flannel and I'm not even sure she used batting! She just tied them with the same kind of floss that you use for cross-stitch. As far as I know, my mom still uses one that's at least 30 years old.

AliKat

Just be aware that it might be really really really heavy. But it won't biodegrade easily. Even pets keep those things for years.

alil