Your Green Quilting Ideas

This page exists to provide a place where we can exchange eco-friendly quiltling ideas and tips as a community. I place a high value on protecting and preserving the earth and try to live my life accordingly. I created Forever Green Quilts to encourage other quilters to go green in their quilting, in keeping with my personal values.

Do you feel the same way? You can help the mission of Forever Green Quilts, share your value with a wide audience and help other quilters go green by sharing your ideas, tips and experiences with green quilting.

Changing our impact on the world takes both individual and community effort. I invite you to share your favorite idea for going green with your quilting hobby, profession, (or addiction!). Together we can create a powerful resource for quilters who want to be green.

Do you have a fabric eco-friendly fabric? Have you discovered a new type of green batting? How do you use every last possible scrap of fabric you buy? How do you upcycle or recycle fabrics?

Click here to read tips and ideas submitted by other visitors to this page.

Click on the links below to see some great ideas for eco-friendly quilting. They were all written by other visitors to this page.

Stuff batting scraps into a batting pillow 
If you need a travel or couch pillow an odd size, it's easy to make your own. Cut two pieces of batting and sew up three and a half sides. Stuff it with ...

Memory Bears 
This is not a quilting tip, but a very special gift that I've made for friends who have lost a loved one.
It started when my dear friend, Alice, lost ...

Confetti quilting and garden 
For many years I have been using the selvedges for tying garden plants to stakes. I recently saw someone else had the same idea and submitted it to a magazine....

Put Fabric Scraps in Your Compost 
As all my quilt fabrics are 100% cotton, I add the "too small for anything else" scraps to my compost bin.

Going Crazy 
all the little bits go into crazy patchworks. I use old blankets for batting (criminally they are often in a box marked 'dog blankets' in the charity shops!...

Grandma's Old Rugs 
Remember the oval braided rugs that we would lie on when we were children? I like to take scrap material and a shuttle from Micheal's Craft Stores and ...

Old tights as stuffing 
This is something I haven't done for a while but will be reviving! My mother is VERY thrifty, having been brought up with rationing post WW2. I have made ...

Use an old blanket as batting 
I used an old wool blanket that no longer fit our decor (it was a rather ugly, faded pink) as the batting for a new quilt. I think wool is particularly ...

Saving cotton batting scraps to use as pillow bases  Not rated yet

The scraps from my organic cotton batting became a smooth, tight base for a vintage linen pillow I found at a thrift shop. I carefully layered the scraps ...

Sustainable Quilting  Not rated yet
I recently made a quilt out of organic cotton fabrics, thread, and batting for a senior project that I had to do for my liberal studies degree. I had ...

Using Fortrel as Quilt Batting  Not rated yet
I was looking for something to fill a stash-buster quilt with, and when the lady at my favorite quilt shop showed my the new cotton batting, I saw a lot ...

Making Quilts from Old Jeans  Not rated yet
This ia a great article on using old pairs of jeans to make quilts. There are ideas for ragged-edge quilts and a really cute pattern that looks like cathedral ...

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