Karen G

I plan to cut strips ans make rag rugs.

lclang

If you belong to a quilt guild take the stuff you don't like and give it to others. It really helps those who are on fixed incomes to build a decent stash and what you don't like may be just what someone else is looking for. Or if you know someone who does charity sewing you might inquire as to whether your fabrics would be useful to them. Seems like a waste to use it in a mop.

meanmom

Some of the fabric I no longer like I donated to Ronald McDonald house the rest I make into donation quilts. I donate them to all kinds of places. Who ever I find that sounds like a good place to donate one gets it when I have one finished. Homeless shelters, pregnancy centers etc are always thrilled to get them I donated one to a pregnancy center they liked it and put it in their auction. It brought quite a bit of money. Salvation Army here has teamed up with Toys for Tots and passes out dolls at Christmas. Each little girl gets a doll with a doll quilt. I made 25 and am using them to practice FMQ for the online class I am going to take.

Regas

How about a stash swap. Make it a social event with all your quilting/sewing friends. Everyone has fabrics they aren't crazy about but it's very interesting to see how many people love a fabric that you don't and you might end up with something you love.

TanyaL

Pardon my surprise, quilting friends, but I am astonished at how many of you are unhappy with my personal choices of what to do with fabric I don't like. Regas and Iclang, I live far in the country and do not belong to any quilting organization, nor is there one that I know of within driving distance. For instance I drive 25 miles to a grocery store.
None of my friends quilt. I got this particular few yards of mixed prints in a good buy when I bought a loveseat in New Orleans. The fabric, about 30 yards of mixed types was thrown in for $20. It included some cotton, some chiffon, some upholestry. Swifter mop pads cost about $5 a yard when you work out the square inch cost, so I am saving money using this ugly fabric. I am myself on a fixed income. The painting the I am doing are commission paintings and the cotton rags are much, much better than paper towels. Therefore the ugly fabric used for painting rags is contributing to earning money. Sewmom, I do not cut up old clothes because I prefer cotton for these mop cloths and painting rags and I do not wear cotton; I wear blends since I try to not iron very much. Blends will not soak up water and are useless to mop with and make terrible rags for oil paints. Until I decided to use my ugly fabric I was buying cheese cloth for painting and the Swifter Mop Pads. All in all, I think using the ugly, ugly cotton prints is a big savings for me and an excellent way to use that fabric. Please remember ugly fabric is not sacred for the use of quilts only.

Chasing Hawk

Nice post Tanya

I understood what you meant on the first post.

Caswews

Hmmm... well find a quilter who also does dolls for the sick .. I am sure she would love some new material to her to help her make the dolls. Just a suggestion ....(her name is wordpaintervs I believe is the spelling).

TanyaL

This thread was "What do You do with YOUR ugly fabric" not "What is your opinion of what should I do!" Come on, ladies, give me a break here!

dc989

How about using them for quilt backs for charity quilts? That's what I do with the fabric I no longer love. I like scrappy backs and can usually pieces bigger stripes or squares which look pretty good together. I get lots of enjoyment from whittling down the pile of "what was I thinking" when I bought that!

Tink's Mom

I just used two pieces of ugly fabric yestrday. I had made two pillow covers, so needed two pillow forms. Ugly fabric was made into pillow form and stuffed with fiberfil. Once it is inside the pillow cover, no one knows that there was an ugly fabric around.