What do you do with a quilt top you don't want to finish?
#11
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Essex, UK
Posts: 252
I've got a quilt top that I made for my Aunt but I absolutely hate it, and will definitely make her a different one. It's been sat around for ages and I wanted to try a different method of basting (pin basting on a table, I usually spray baste on the floor, but it requires me to remove all the furniture from the living room!) so I experimented with the horrible quilt top! I think I'm also going to practice FMQ on it. I recently bought the book by Leah Day of her 365 FMQ designs, so I might just do a load of different designs and see what happens! It won't look pretty, but at least it will give me practice, so it won't be completely wasted!
#13
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,232
I'm loosely connected to a quilt group that would love this quilt top. They make quilts for the homeless, for firefighters to carry with then, etc. They don't care about the fabric being 100% cotton. Ask around. I'll bet there is a similar group in your area.
#14
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 190
I know that my grandma uses her leftover polyester fabrics in charity quilts. I've actually got a couple that she gave me for my car. She insisted I take them when she found out I didn't have a blanket in my car one winter. So polyester is pleant appreciated.
#16
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 19,127
Donate it to a church or a senior center group or maybe a guild that will finish it for charity. There is a charity that takes tops, blocks or fabrics. Provides quilts of comfort to people who have had experience a disaster such as floods, tornado, hurricane or fire in the US. That is where my quilts and UFOs will go when I am dead.
Quilts of Compassion
PO Box 350296
Toledo OH 43635
Janice Grimes
[email protected]
Quilts of Compassion
PO Box 350296
Toledo OH 43635
Janice Grimes
[email protected]
#18
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: East Oklahoma - pining for Massachusetts
Posts: 10,477
I don't want you to feel discouraged but I have a number of quilts that I have "abandoned" in various stages of work. If I do not finish them, I figure someone else will. I do not stress about it any more.
#19
In these trying times, with so many homeless people, I would finish it and donate it to a homeless shelter or a battered women's shelter. There are so many people who would welcome that quilt as a way to keep warm. Especially if this coming winter is as bad as the predictions. JMHO
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