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Old 02-15-2014, 05:10 AM
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lclang
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If you are working with all volunteers, please be careful not to offend anyone. Volunteers are hard to find and if you get too particular about what you will donate you will not only make enemies of those who do not do the best job,but of their friends and fellow participants as well. Accept gratefully whatever is donated, occasionally reminding all of your people that we need to be careful of our seam widths and make sure the items will wear well for the recipients. If you cannot in good faith donate something, please get a "packing/shipping" department who can quietly and efficiently weed out anything that is absolutely unacceptable and figure out what to do with it other than put it with the donations. Do not donate it to a thrift store as you wouldn't want the maker to run onto it. This is a touchy issue and I wouldn't be too picky about what is donated as long a it looks okay when finished. People who are not quilters are not going to be inspecting it for quality, but are going to be grateful for the donated quilts. Everything wears out eventually and if a seam splits in a year or so they will still be better than what you purchase uptown. I am co-founder of our local quilt guild and these are issues we have dealt with successfully for a long time.
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