I've got a quilt top that I made for my Aunt but I absolutely hate it, and will definitely make her a different one. It's been sat around for ages and I wanted to try a different method of basting (pin basting on a table, I usually spray baste on the floor, but it requires me to remove all the furniture from the living room!) so I experimented with the horrible quilt top! I think I'm also going to practice FMQ on it. I recently bought the book by Leah Day of her 365 FMQ designs, so I might just do a load of different designs and see what happens! It won't look pretty, but at least it will give me practice, so it won't be completely wasted!

Someone will love it. Donate to a guild or goodwill. Maybe someone here will want to finish it.

I'm loosely connected to a quilt group that would love this quilt top. They make quilts for the homeless, for firefighters to carry with then, etc. They don't care about the fabric being 100% cotton. Ask around. I'll bet there is a similar group in your area.

I know that my grandma uses her leftover polyester fabrics in charity quilts. I've actually got a couple that she gave me for my car. She insisted I take them when she found out I didn't have a blanket in my car one winter. So polyester is pleant appreciated.

I love the 'experiments' idea! Frankenquilt it !! :)

Donate it to a church or a senior center group or maybe a guild that will finish it for charity. There is a charity that takes tops, blocks or fabrics. Provides quilts of comfort to people who have had experience a disaster such as floods, tornado, hurricane or fire in the US. That is where my quilts and UFOs will go when I am dead.

Quilts of Compassion
PO Box 350296
Toledo OH 43635


Janice Grimes
[email protected]

You could cut it up into squares and make practice/test panels for FMQ'ing

I don't want you to feel discouraged but I have a number of quilts that I have "abandoned" in various stages of work. If I do not finish them, I figure someone else will. I do not stress about it any more.

In these trying times, with so many homeless people, I would finish it and donate it to a homeless shelter or a battered women's shelter. There are so many people who would welcome that quilt as a way to keep warm. Especially if this coming winter is as bad as the predictions. JMHO

I agree, do not finish it, don't throw it away but donate it.