What do you do with outdated fabric?
05-29-2011, 02:47 PM
#91
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I never have outdated fabric. I use everything I get in either scrappy quilts or family or friends. If you have never done an old fashioned 9 patch, rail fence, log cabin quilt, etc. you really should try one. They are easy to do and you can use anything in them. It is all a matter of choice. If you have fabric you do not want to use, please contact me and tell me what you have as well as how much you want for it. Best of luck
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Originally Posted by Butterfli19
Okay, so I have some fabric that's old. Nothing wrong with it, just outdated, not bright and cheery colors like the fab of today.
Any ideas of what I can do with it? Or doesn't it matter?
Any ideas of what I can do with it? Or doesn't it matter?
05-29-2011, 03:46 PM
#94
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Originally Posted by BabyCakes
The red quilt I used my moms 70's christmas fabrics she had laying around. The pattern is called jelly jive by pieced tree patterns. I call this one christmas jive. The brown quilt was left over fabric from a quilt I made 10 yrs ago.No pattern,not quilted yet. The last quilt, not quilted yet was made with some old baby fabrics.Same pattern as the first one.I call this baby jive.
05-29-2011, 04:17 PM
#95
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Fabric is NEVER outdated. If you read that somewhere, you can be sure it's related to a pitch to sell new fabric. That is the way merchants sell us things we don't need - by making what we already have "old" or "outdated" or "obsolete".
05-29-2011, 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Alondra
Fabric is NEVER outdated. If you read that somewhere, you can be sure it's related to a pitch to sell new fabric. That is the way merchants sell us things we don't need - by making what we already have "old" or "outdated" or "obsolete".
05-29-2011, 06:42 PM
#99
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Originally Posted by jeaninmaine
I've seen some beautiful quilts made with the older fabrics. One of the modern lines is a Civil War Fabrics line and they're also selling 30s fabric by the ton.
I will admit some of the fabric I bought in the 60s and 70s isn't fit to be used at the bottom of a bird cage. I don't know what I was using for taste back then.
I will admit some of the fabric I bought in the 60s and 70s isn't fit to be used at the bottom of a bird cage. I don't know what I was using for taste back then.
05-29-2011, 06:47 PM
#100
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Earlier this year I went through my stash and donated yards and yards of fabric to a group of ladies that were making quilts for the children at an orphanage in Nepal so it went to a great cause. I would never have made anything with it and now it'll be loved by the children.
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