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judy_68 05-30-2011 07:08 AM

Fabric doesn't outdate. lol If you don't want it give it away. So many people on here sooooo appreciate free or cheap fabric.

Marvel 05-30-2011 04:54 PM

Have you thought of making pillows for the animal shelter?

TonnieLoree 05-30-2011 05:25 PM

I used up some of the fabric I no longer love and made some really simple quilts for my friend who raises several smaller dog breeds. I've also finished off some real fuglies for her babies as well. The dogs don't care.

Please, please, no one say "puppy mill" here. She is a responsible breeder. I've often said that if reincarnation is true, then I'd like to come back as one of her dogs.

MerryQuilter 05-30-2011 05:30 PM

Give some away love scrap quilts also

cctx. 05-30-2011 05:33 PM


Originally Posted by Barb44
What's outdated fabric? There is pretty fabric and ugly fabric, but outdated? No. I see fabric for sale here all the time that I bought 20 years ago for 2.99 selling for 6.00. I don't consider any fabric outdated. But that's me. I like old things better than new.

If you don't want it, send it to me, it will fit right in with the rest. LOL

*** ditto.

roxie623 05-30-2011 05:56 PM

You can donate the fabric to a womens shelter if they do a sewing group. I have been teaching a group of women that are in a Elderly Womens Shelter (all of the women are over 60) for about a year. I got machines donated and I asked for any old fabric. This way the fabric goes to a good home. Check the shelters in your area and see if they have a program like this.

Mona Marie 06-01-2011 06:36 AM

send them to me. I don't use just todays looking fabric

bamamama 06-01-2011 06:40 AM

Like Bonnie Hunter says if you cut it small enough you can't tell its ugly. Make scrap quilts, or send it to me and I'll make them!

probles 06-01-2011 08:22 PM

Quilt it. It was charming for its day. It will be charming again some day. Look at the 1930s style fabric. Even the 1950s and 1960s style is coming back. Very nostalgic for those that lived through that period.

That said the only fabric I would not quilt is polyester. That was the fashion of the 1960/70s. I even made a quilt back then with some. But I would not do it again.

4EVERquilt 06-01-2011 08:25 PM

Post it on the board, maybe someone will buy it. Maybe me!!


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