How old is your oldest quilting scrap?
 

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?

My oldest is probably 15 years old.

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...

Mine is probably over 15 years.

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.

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. :)

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.

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.

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.

20 years.....

When my Mum stopped sewing (about fifteen years ago) she gave me all of her fabric. Most of it isn't cotton - she wasn't a quilter - but many many pieces are bits left over from clothing she made, and that I well remember! So....my personal scraps date from when I was in college (20 odd years ago) but if you include my Mum's stuff, some scraps from 40 years ago, probably.

Alison

I have scraps and a few quilt blocks from the late 1800's due to the fact I sold antique quilts and tops and blocks in my antique business. Of course, I don't use them and they will probably be thrown away when I am gone.

I have no idea. I've been sewing for 50+ years and started collecting ~40 yrs ago. I'm sure to have yardage from then. When GM died I did get some yardage, I was the ony heir that sewed. I think it's all been used.

Long ago and far away....I used to make clothes for my then "tiny little girl"....she is now 48, and I still have a few scraps of the cottons I made her dresses out of, as well as some wool I made a little coat for her with. Memories!

My oldest is from the early 70's.

I started buying fabric when I was nine with my allowance and later with my babysitting money. The oldest scraps I have were purchased in 1967 for my Centennial dress (Canada celebrated its one hundredth birthday that year) and I was in grade eight. Still have my dress and my grade eight class picture with us all dressed up in our costumes too.

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I don't know how old this is. It's on the back of some quilt pieces. I got them from my husband's parents stuff after they passed away. It's a page from a catalog. Maybe from the 50's?

I just gave yards of my 1979-1982 fabrics to my church. Don't know why I held on to them so long insead of using them. Maybe because it provided room to get some of the new fabrics I thought I couldn't live without.

I really don't know how old some of my fabrics are. I was given a couple big boxes of vintage fabrics that had belonged to a friend's mother plus I bought a bunch of fabric that was from another friend's grandmother who bought out fabric shops going out of business. I know for sure that some of it is from the 70s but there is also some that looks like it could be from as early as the 30s-40s. I've used some of it but am saving the oldest looking for the Double Wedding Ring quilt that I've been collecting fabrics for several years now.

I started quilting in the 70's...still have small bits of some of my first fabrics I bought...and work them into the scrap quilts that I make.
I do also have some older fabric-from the 30's....waiting for the right project.

hehe... older than my oldest child (who is 36).

Ours go back 28 years.

My oldest quilt is a baby quilt that I made when I was pregnant with our first child. I made that 34 yrs. ago. It was a kit and cost me ..are you ready for this?.....$12.00!!

Yep, I've got my moms scraps and scraps from 3 older quilters that have passed.

I have feedsacks!

About 30 yrs old. And some of it I wonder why I ever bought.

I think maybe about 15 years.

have a huge tub of old fabrics ...old old older than me ...lol just never know when you have to replace a piece on someones quilt .....and it happens more than you would think ...a good friend had two holes in one his mom {RIP} made for him and had a few that matched close enough that it worked

I also put a scrap into that quilt that was from clothes I sewed for her mother who turns 43 tomorrow.[/QUOTE]

Happy birthday!!

I have feedsacks as well, but they aren't scraps. My scraps are probably about 13 yrs old.

Scraps
 

My mother died in 1992. She had a lifetime of sewing scraps which I inherited at her death. I've used some of them, but still have a lot.

1976, I think. That is a denim scrap quilt - still working on it!

I have pieces starting in 1977 from baby clothes made for my daughters. They are going into the wedding ring quilt that has been in the making for 8 years for my youngest daughter that got married in 2004. The rest are going into a courthouse steps quilt for my oldest daughter that got married in 2011 in Washington Courthouse, OH. I thought the pattern was appropriate. It alternates with signature blocks from the guests at the wedding. She is going to have to wait until the wedding ring quilt is finished until I get to hers. I hope it won't take another 8 years. Over 50% of the fabrics in these two quilts are from fabric that I have used in various projects from the past 30+ years.

I have a bunch from the 70s.

I have some original feed sack fabric, left over from some of my grandmother's quilts that date back to the 30's and 40's.

I have some scraps from the late 40's early 50's that came from an Aunt of mine. Don't quite know what I want to do with them yet.

I've got some scraps from my DH's mother - back to the 50's (which is when he and I were born). I've tried to incorporate some from every decade in many of the quilts I've made that are scrappy - and point it out to the recipient....the idea that scraps are from 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's and this decade makes it special, I think.

I started quilting over 30 years ago and still had a large piece of the fabric that I made my first quilt with. This turned out to be a good thing since I will have to repair the edge of it since it wore out. I guess it's not hoarding if you intend to use it and then do. LOL

I have scraps and pieces going back to the 30's and maybe some older than that. I know I have quilts older that the 30's. Have quite a few feed sacks and pieces and have made several quilts with those. I will be 80 soon and I really don't know where all the lovely fabric is going but I have to make some decisions on them. I must have 20 bins..mostly color coded and the feed sacks have their own bins. What was I thinking. None of my kids sew. Have given away a lot of fabric but still there is too much. Used to make most of the girls clothes when they were young.

i have a BUNCH of scraps from the 80's and a lot of yardage also. I noticed a lot of it was from Spring Industries. I dont even know if they are still in business. They are nice prints though.