How do people recycle American quilts ones they have finished using them?

Answer 1

Quilts can be reused, re-purposed or recycled in any number of ways. Often an old but still beautiful quilt will be kept as an art piece, to be hung on a wall or draped gently over a piece of furniture where it can be enjoyed without further wear on the textiles. Other quilts that have bad damage along the edges or in certain areas might be cut down and re-bound as a smaller quilt to be used on a crib or as a lap quilt. Some crafters will cut up old quilts and use them to make dolls or paper-machet type objects; that practice is generally condemned by the quilting community. Yet another old method of recycling worn-out quilts was to use them as filler for an entirely new bed cover, enclosing the old worn quilt in a new back and top. This thicker "comforter" was generally tied rather than quilted and used as an everyday blanket.