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#132
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Oregon City, OR
Posts: 876
I'm with you all. I even keep the "unusable" scraps. I just made 4 kitty pillows for our no-kill cat shelter in West Linn. I have enough unusables to make at least 10 more and still have some old material I need to use up. The rest I am saving and will try to make a scrappy quilt or two - when I have time. I also have my sewing room in the lower part of our tri-level. I can just close the door and no one knows what is lurking there unless I want them to.
#133
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Holmen, WI
Posts: 6,459
My house is messy ... with fabric piles all over the place and lots of bits of scraps .... but I wouldn't have it any other way. On the bad days I can sit in my "squalor" and dream, plan, and process. And on the good days I can sew up a storm! It's a beautiful life I have!
#134
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Holmen, WI
Posts: 6,459
You sound just like DH & I! He's "excited" about my quilting stuff & I'm "thrilled" over his guy stuff (bows, woodworking, his motorcycle, his telescopes, etc). It's nice that we both have our own interests & leave the other own alone re theirs.
#136
I have read several of the pages on this thread and now it's time for me to take GGS to mothers day out, but this makes me remember a funny (to me) story. I used to go to a sit-n-sew at a LQS and one of the ladies who made absolutly gorgeous quilts all out of the LQS fabric would throw her scraps into the waste basket beside her machine. I had watched her do this several times and one day she cut these strips from a queen size quilt, about 4" wide that were already sandwiched with warm and natural batting and a gorgeous backing, and then she dropped the strips into her wastebasket, I know she paid $9.99 per yard for the fabric. After lunch that day I went over and asked if she was throwing all that fabric in her trash can away and when she said yes I asked if she minded if I took it. She got a really strange look (disgusted) look on her face and said "why" and I said because it was beautiful and would go great on a quilt I was making at home. Her response was "well, if you want to take my trash home, I don't care." I felt a little like a homeless person as I gathered up her cast offs, but I did, and it did look beautiful on my quilt. Isn't great that we are all so different!
#137
Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Sharon WI
Posts: 39
I get alot of fabric scraps from my sister (she does alot of sewing and mom and she also do quilts for charity). I get leftovers - cottons, polyester, fleece, you name it. If it wasn't for all the scraps donated to my collection I have also accumulated, I don't know how I would be surviving. I have been unemployed for over a year and if it weren't for having a stash I qould be going crazy (can't afford to buy much - just that little bit to finish a quilt). Yard sales have become my good friend for supplies also. People just don't see or think the way a quilter does.
#138
Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: USA
Posts: 59
Oh yes, I have been deep in the process of a project and the dining room table is covered. She says, "where do you eat dinner?" and "I just dont have time for hobbies" Really?? This is my pleasure and release and I sell what I make in craft fairs. That makes it more than a hobby. So I totally get your frustration. I also save every small peice of fabric I can get.
#139
Those who don't quilt & have no desire too, just don't get it & never will, lol! Their loss, right! I tell people I am a quilter & absolutely love it. I really don't care what these types think, as they really are clueless, aren't they! I wonder too, if these kind have an hobbies, or something they love doing, besides cleaning house. I doubt it, or they might understand. If they don't get, don't bother to explain, it won't help, just keep quilting & enjoy!...
#140
I have read several of the pages on this thread and now it's time for me to take GGS to mothers day out, but this makes me remember a funny (to me) story. I used to go to a sit-n-sew at a LQS and one of the ladies who made absolutly gorgeous quilts all out of the LQS fabric would throw her scraps into the waste basket beside her machine. I had watched her do this several times and one day she cut these strips from a queen size quilt, about 4" wide that were already sandwiched with warm and natural batting and a gorgeous backing, and then she dropped the strips into her wastebasket, I know she paid $9.99 per yard for the fabric. After lunch that day I went over and asked if she was throwing all that fabric in her trash can away and when she said yes I asked if she minded if I took it. She got a really strange look (disgusted) look on her face and said "why" and I said because it was beautiful and would go great on a quilt I was making at home. Her response was "well, if you want to take my trash home, I don't care." I felt a little like a homeless person as I gathered up her cast offs, but I did, and it did look beautiful on my quilt. Isn't great that we are all so different!
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