I'm not sure it would be called vintage and I don't have enough of it to make a completely vintage quilt, but a mix would definitely be interesting!

(edit) MissJ - and I thought I was the only one who talked to my fabric! Sometimes I'm sad about throwing away the tiniest strips. What's wrong with me? :)

I don't belong to a guild. I attended a meeting of a local guild but they were rather snobby and gossipy but extremely talented and I didn't feel like I fit in. (all that from one meeting!) I was thinking I might like to start a quilting / needlework group, to put together baby quilts or lap quilts for donations, but am not sure how to go about it or where to have it.

We are talking "quilts"here. Surely nothing is dated about quilting, it's all in the eye of the beholder.

I don't know how old your fabric is, but I have been using my old cotton fabric from the late 70's and 80's in scrap quilts. One of my friends was looking at one of them and commented at some of the fabric. She said they are now calling that "vintage" fabric. You just need to get a new perspective on that. It isn't old.....it is vintage! If nothing else you could cut them up in strips WOF and sew them back together and use as a backing. I have been trying to use up my fabric that way. I just turned over a quilt on our bed last night. It has 4-10" strips across the width of it and my husband told me he really like the quilt I put on the bed! He had never even made a comment about the other side of the quilt.

Check out Bonnie Hunter at www.quiltville.com. See what she has to say about old, ugly, etc., fabric. A friend just gave me a hunk of batting left over from her church rummage sale. They were going to toss it. Inside were squares and triangles pinned individually to the batting. It is a pinwheel pattern, using 80's not-the-best fabric. Well, I had some 80's fabric to put with it, and it is now my "Primitive Pinwheels," (the original cutting was not so good and I didn't take time to re-do it), AKA Rummage Sale Reject. So, you just never know when you will have a use for your older, never outdated, fabric.

make donation quilts......

Oh No! Don't tell my husband fabric has an expiration date....whenever he sees that I have bought new fabric he says "what about all the fabric you already have?" I tell him it needs to age before it can be used....LOL!!!

fabric old never reuse reduce or just give it to someone who will use it

Love your quilts. What pattern did you use to make the baby quilt in the last photo that is in light colors. It is the quilt that is on the left side.

I think that fabric from pass years will blend in very well with the fabrics of today.

I love this Board!! Now I know what is wrong with some of my fabrics - they are sulking!! That must be why some of my seams go crooked and my points don't match!!

mug rugs, place mats, pot holders,bibs, cat toys, Christmas ornaments, so much more. even if they are out dated, I didn't know material could be outdated!