Quilted clothing?

[homesteadmamma]

The other day when I was in the quilting store, I noticed a quilted vest (rag type pattern) and fell in love with it. Has anyone made quilted clothing, particulary a rag type vest.

Kathy mentioned in another thread that rag quilts are hard on the washer and dryer. I'm wondering if quilted clothing would be the same?

[canadian gardener]

No but an old issue of threads had a really neat thing where they quilted 3 or 4 layers of ordinary woven material together, then made up the item using this. No padding, just the layers.

Then they slashed the top 2 or 3 layers and washed it so that it frayed outwards, revealing the layers of colour from inside.

If you like I could maybe try and get a photocopy to you CJ, just pm me if you want.

[kaykwilts]

I've done three vests (applique) and about 3 patchwork skirts. I need to get pictures of those up on my webshots.

[many houseapes]

A few years ago, I had used up some left over quilting squares(sewn together) to make colorful linings for my 3 teenaged dds denim vests. They turned out really cute.They weren't hard on the washer & dryer.