When making charity quilts, I use fabric from my stash, that I would use for making quilts for family and friends, or raffle quilts for my church fair. Sometimes I used fabric that had been given to me by friends to be used for charity quilts. I once made a quilt using a mustard gold and red calico print, probably from the 60's or before. I could have used sunglasses it was so bright, but a month or two later the guild received a picture of a baby and that "bright gold" quilt. It wasn't fabric I would have normally used to make a quilt, but it was quality fabric, just from a previous era.