"Donations" of quilting/sewing items - - -
#31
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 38
If/When someone offers you something - do you
1) blindly accept whatever it is and deal with it when you get home
2) ask to look it over and then pick and choose at the time
3) avoid taking/getting donations
4) other
I have gotten a lot more selective about what I bring home - but I have slipped into the first choice at times - and regretted it!
1) blindly accept whatever it is and deal with it when you get home
2) ask to look it over and then pick and choose at the time
3) avoid taking/getting donations
4) other
I have gotten a lot more selective about what I bring home - but I have slipped into the first choice at times - and regretted it!
Never #2 or #3.
I recently took a bunch of fabric squares a friend offered (she doesn't quilt, they were from one of her relatives). Turned out to be oooh... hundreds... of squares cut to 1-1/2, 2-1/2, 3-1/2 and 4-1/2 inches, as well as quite a few 4-patch block UFOs. Would I have rather had yardage? Absolutely. But I have lots of miniature quilt patterns and I've already sewn up several miniature quilt tops, and converted the "lonely" 4-patch blocks into mug rugs. But the capper was 2 bags of denim scraps of decent size. Because she's not a quilter, she was going to give it to the thrift shop, but I pounced on it and said thank-you-very-much!
I feel it's worth my time to sort through everything to find what I want to keep, then get rid of the rest. And at some point, I will probably hit my limit on those tiny, tiny squares and they'll go, as well.
#32
I do so much charity quilting that I accept everything. My MIL passed last fall and she was not a quilter but a sewer so I have so much of the sewing notions that I ended up donating some of those. She also did some needlepoint and crewel and embroidery that my church ladies got to pick what they could do....(most of them are elderly) and it was appreciated. I do have a lot of scraps that have been given to me, that I need to find the time to do some scrappy quilts for the charity quilts.....
#34
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 1,472
I've always accepted it, kept what I could use, pass some to others who would like certain prints and drop off the rest so other quilter's can get what they want of what's left. I've always gotten beautiful pieces that complimented my stash & those giving me what they no longer want love seeing all the items I make with it.
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