I thought about donating it so maybe i should consider it longer. This dress isn't gently used though. I just needed something appropriate at a reasonable to me price.
I tend to sit on things like this a while and make sure i won't do anything i will regret later. I live in an area where there are a lot of less fortunate people and there aren't enough people donating to good causes. One time there was a prom dress drive and i was shocked at some of the awful things people donated. I'm not talking about missing some beads or needs a couple stitches, there were dresses that worn torn badly or too dirty to clean. I worked at a thrift store for a while and it was the same thing there but fortunately there are some people out there like me who will buy unusable items and cut away the bad spots and work with whats left over.
I do love the crazy quilt idea. I am hoping to get a machine that has some decent embroidery type stitching for something along those lines. My hand stitching is awful.