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To: mamelukesabre
I've got a couple of quilts another of my mother's sisters gave me and my brother back in the '70's. She had had them made and they are partly made of polyester with a butterfly pattern.

Really, really ugly.

I'm keeping them anyway.

37 posted on 12/26/2011 9:50:36 AM PST by susannah59
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To: susannah59

The whole concept of a quilt came about out of practicality, not as a form of art and beauty. A woman would literally create a valuable necessity out of garbage(worn out clothing). Those ugly 70s era quilts made of old polyester scraps might be the last of the practical quilts. I’ve seen some even made out of denim scraps. The ugly polyester years came and went fairly quickly. I’m talking about the thick semi stretchy polyester that old fat ladies of rural areas wouldn’t stop wearing when polyester went out of style in the late 70s. We will probably never see cloth made like that ever again. Maybe someday people will be fascinated by those ugly old polyester quilts.


38 posted on 12/26/2011 10:18:02 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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