Feeling lighter
 

Like most of you I religiously saved my scraps until I had boxes of them. But I realized yesterday, on looking at these boxes, that I rarely use them. I have only made one scrap quilt and decided that I am not a scrap person. I need structure. I need to see patterns flow through the quilt. And I love to shop for fabrics when I decide to make something. So I bundled up all my scraps and am taking them to a group where I live that makes scrap quilts for homeless children. Many of them go to the police department to give to children when the police have to respond to a family situation. All my scraps are gone and I admit to feeling a little anxious but so much lighter in my mood when I open the door to my scrap cabinet and see it's clean.

Good for you, I think that is wonderful......If you close your eyes real tight you will be able to see those quilts and the faces of the children....

Good for you.... and them! :)

thanks for donating them to a very worthy cause. we make these quilts for the police in our senior center.

Seems like a win-win situation!!

I think I am with you, and will find a place to donate my scraps! I've kept them in a box because so many other quilters are proud to be thrifty and use them, so I guess I'm guilted into keeping them. But I find that I don't use them at all. I don't know why it never occurred to me to donate them to someone who loves to make scrap quilts....

Janette, when I finally give up something, like you passed on your scraps, I realize that I was not saving them for ME. I was saving them for the person I gave them to. Then I can be assured that they are being enjoyed and made into the quilts they were meant to be. (just not at my house! lol) Pat yourself on the back! (and I would ask for pictures from the person who is going to use them...you would get a kick out of seeing some of those little scraps...like old home week!)

So glad you said that you donated those scraps! I was afraid you were gonna say that you threw them away. I call myself a "Scrappy" Quilter, so my heart skipped a beat at first.

For anyone else with tons of left over quilt scraps, I hope you will donate them as well. Look for a local Project Linus group or any other church quilting group. They will happily take your scraps and turn them into lovely quilts.

I save mine for folks on here then when I get a flat rate box full, I sell them. Some one gets a color variety and I get a small treat for myself. I have also taken to keeping the silly selvedges as well.

I don't belong to a guild, but a friend of mine does. So when I get a large box of scraps I give them to her and she takes them to a meeting and they get passed on to anyone that wants them. Win/Win for all.

I'm glad to here you're donating not just throwing away. I believe in recycling and using up not throwing out. I tell my kids all the time, I was green before it was cool but we called it poor. The scraps will be put to good use and maybe that was what you were saving them for to begin with (you just didn't know it).

There's nothing that I like better than a box of scraps. I make scrap quilts all the time and lead our Community Quilts group and we love gifts like yours. Right now we are working on quilts for the newest Habitat for Humanity project in our local area. If you're not scrappy there are many groups who would be delighted with your donation.