Studio Dispatch: Polyester Quilts

Hear me out.

Last year my friend gave me a strip-pieced polyester quilt top that they had been holding onto. The maker had paired the stretchier knits with a stiff cotton backing to stop them from warping and I was impressed by that attention to detail, which contradicted my internalized biases against polyester as, well, crap. I studied the quilt top, which I found…