I would swap you mop pads for your ugly fabrics. If not to take comfort the fabric got some use getting your floors clean.

I guess that is like chopping zucchini squash up into really small chucks without the seeds and adding them to the sauce I make lasagna with. The kids and grand kids never know a veggie is lurking in their food. :)
LOL LOL

I keep a free bin for kids who take sewing lessons. Once they use the freebies, they can purchase fabric they like though to be honest, a lot times they love the fabric & buy coordinating material. You never know. The rest I bundle up for my favorite charities: RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) and our local Hospice. Both organizations use everything I send their way & are grateful to have supplies for their volunteers.

Although I got these gosh awful ugly cotton prints at a discount price in a volume purchase, I did pay money for them. I am getting use out of the money I spent and not having to spend more money for the two items I do now need - almost lint free paint cloths for my oil painting and pads for my Swifter Mop. If I exchanged this fabric with someone I would have to pay postage, buy lint free fabric and mop pads - losing money three different ways. Why would I do that? But I do stand amazed at the zeal in which you ladies try to save fabric from being recycled in ways not connected to quilting. If everyone was as zealous about all things as you are about quilting fabric our landfills would be empty. I think you could save the planet!

Acutally via Bonnie Hunter's advice I did figure out that if you cut it small enough (2 1/2 inches) it really doesn't look quite so ugly to me. But I am not as stash rich as some folks, so that may well influence my choices. But I had originally given quilting a try in the seventies, so yes, there is some pretty ugly stuff in my stash that has been hanging around forever.

I would donate it or use it for charity quilts. I don't think I could use any of my fabric as a mop.

That reminds me of advice in a newspaper column for women where the columnist was telling a young pregnant woman that no matter how she felt, the day would finally arrive when she could quit wearing maternity clothes (back in the day when maternity clothes were not so attractive) and then she could get a lot of pleasure using them to mop and scrub her floors. I knew a couple of young mothers who did just that and everytime they scrubbed their floors they chanted, "I'm not getting pregnant again!"

we have a group at church that makes quilts for local hospitals and nursing homes ....i just call it girls nite out

I donate mine to someone who makes something out of it, and thinks my ugly fabric is their golden goose .. Gosh sorry my suggestion didn't fit your need ...

Currently life is that I am glad for any stash and even buy up other people's reject stash. I make scrap quilts and look for ways to use these fabrics. It was either stop quilting or use the fabric on hand. Bonnie Hunter's website is a great inspiration. http://quiltville.com/

If I have fabric one of my friends really likes I tell them to just take it. What goes around comes around.

I think several people are selling off fabric they grew tired off on the board. You might do try that and buy some new fabric you like or batting etc.