Originally Posted by
Janice McC
I've got a question for you. Would you ever use a cotton/poly blend for quilts? The reason I ask is that DH has 41 shirts leftover with the name of his former employer embroidered on them. They're nice dress and casual shirts but the majority are 85% cotton 15% polyester. I'm definitely keeping the gorgeous cottons to debone but should I debone the others and possibly make several simple utilitarian quilts? If they weren't embroidered with the co name, they'd be "keepable" but he'll never have any use for them again. What would you all do?
Oh absolutely I have used blends in the past they hold up amazingly well and keep their color. Some of my original quilts more than 20 years ago had blends in them.
The notion of "all quilts need to be 100% cotton" is...........well it's nonsense. Someplace around here I have an ugly ass quilt made in the 70's of double knits and cotton poly's
. it was a used for everything and it has held up well. It's ugly because of the color choice and honestly double knit?????? But it was made for throwing on the ground or in the car so whoever made it (I think my grandmother) had no care for how it looked.
You are not entering it into any competitions so why not. go for it I would.