Originally Posted by mjsylvstr
WHY WOULD YOUR GROUP USE THESE SCRAPS FOR PET BED STUFFING WHEN YOU WERE MAKING QUILTS FOR GIs?
WHICH SEEMS THAT IT WOULD BE SO MUCH MORE A GENEROUS AND GRACIOUS CONTRIBUTION TO A VERY WORTHY CAUSE TO CONTINUE WITH THE QUILTS.
I AM SURE THAT IF YOU REQUESTED, YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET SOME CRUMBS FROM SOME OF OUR MEMBERS HERE SO THAT OUR GIs WOULD CONTINUE TO GET WARMTH FROM YOUR LABOR OF LOVE.
Oh, a better explaination of scraps is in need. You can't phsyically sew anything less then 3/4" you know, the 1/4" seams all around and that's being pretty generous because my 1/4" seams might be a hair bigger, so anything less then about 1" goes into the scrap bag for pet bedding.
The lady who makes the beds sorts through all the scraps she receives , trims up the pieces and sorts them by size and color and shares with the scrappy sewers in her area all the pieces that are not really bedding material. So it doesn't go to waste.
And I'm happy because they are not at my house making me feel guilty that I'm cutting my yardage to make a quilt when my scrap bag is so full.
Occassionaly I put a note on my freecycle group saying come take my scraps. then I feel so free because it's all gone and I didn't throw it away.