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    Old 03-21-2013, 03:04 PM
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    I was digging around in my scrap bins and can across a scrap that was from the 70's when I first started quilting. I still love that fabric.. I could not bring myself to use that last little bit. As I folded it , and placed it carefully back in the bin... I wondered if I am the only one that has scraps that old?
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    Old 03-21-2013, 03:13 PM
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    My oldest is probably 15 years old.
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    Old 03-21-2013, 03:17 PM
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    i have some treasured scraps from my grandmother- from the 40's-50's...sometimes i use a bit of one of them- but i do treasure/protect them and find it hard sometimes to use one that is becoming (scarce)...one i only have about a 3" square left of...(right on the edge of being a hoarder!)
    I tell myself i have them to use---when the time is right & have used them many times...but boy- when it gets down to that last little bit- it's hard...
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    Mine is probably over 15 years.
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    Old 03-21-2013, 03:33 PM
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    I have scraps from my son johns baby quilt --- my baby is 30 years old. Its Laura Ashley fabric. I even remember buying it.
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    I found a scrap of cotton from a blouse I made when I was in highschool. (I graduated in 1959) It was white with red dots.

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    Old 03-21-2013, 04:11 PM
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    I have some remnants from the early 60's. I can't bring myself to call them scraps, that term just doesn't give them the honor they deserve.
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    Old 03-21-2013, 04:14 PM
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    I've been quilting for over 50 years but I have scraps from my grandmother so that's hard to tell, some from the 40's I know so that's over 70 years ago.
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    Old 03-21-2013, 04:27 PM
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    A while back I came across a scrap that was passed down to me from my mother. She hasn't sewn in probably 60 years so that scrap may be older than I am. I was able to work it into a quilt for my granddaughter. I also put a scrap into that quilt that was from clothes I sewed for her mother who turns 43 tomorrow.
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    Old 03-21-2013, 04:29 PM
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    my neighbor gave me a quilt top hand pieced by her DH grandmother in the late 20's, early 30's a few days later she found some large scraps in a box labeled with GM's name and a note to save scraps to finish quilt had extra newspaper templates for the top she had given me. What a find! Neighbor doesn't sew. Just asked to see it after I finish it.
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