Unsewing

I hope people with significant stashes will tell their families and friends about charities that would love to have their fabric and tools. Add it to the will. My chapter for Quilts for Kids got a call one day from the daughter of a very craftsy woman. No one in the family cared for all of the supplies ad equipment she had accumulated. She had told her daughter she wanted all her arts and crafts items to be donated to a charity. And they found our group -- Silicon Valley Quilts for Kids. This lady had lived through the Great Depression and treated her belongings as treasures. We were given about half of her fabric -- anything we wanted from her stash. She was also into beads and in one box we found hundreds of dollars of Mill Hill beads. Huge cutting mats, two sewing machines, all manner of tools. In the garage was a box of perhaps 30 pairs of Gingher scissors, snips and shears. All were mint in condition. We took two finished bed-sized quilt tops, quilted and bound them and gave back to the family the following month. They were dumbstruck -- the grandsons had something to remember their Grandmother with. Great experience! I think about her every time I pick up these small scissors with the beaded fob she made. Wish I had met her but her generosity lives on.