Where do you buy your material when you are making charity quilts?
#41
I sew for a children's hospice and we get tons of fabric donated. Same with the quilts for the YWCA, and the DHS quilts! We often send fabric to other groups we get so much. BUT this is quilt/sewing country and when grandma passes, her fabric gets donated! WE don't mind though. We even have groups that take t-shirt knits, double knits, you name it!
I shop thrifts for fabric for my own use--what's wrong with using the beautiful L.L. Bean, 100% shower curtain or the 100% cotton tablecloth for charity?
#43
As President of the local guild I would be ashamed to tell people they had to shop at a certain store. Two things I ask when we do charity quilts 1.) charity doesn't mean ugly and 2.) if you can see through it, it won't last. I like to quilt for my local chapter of Quilt for Kids and alot of my fabric comes from WalMart and JoAnns because they always have a large selection of novelty fabric. That doesn't mean I don't use fabric from my LQS. I use whatever looks good together.
#44
I am chair of out guild's charity quilt committee. We use whatever is donated to us. Some of the ladies use fabrics from their own stash and the fabric choice is up to them. I make up kits for members to take and make up from the donated fabrics. The only donated fabrics no one wants to use are the polyester double knits so I take those to the thrift store.
Remember the quilting tradition is to "use what you have available".
Remember the quilting tradition is to "use what you have available".
#45
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If they aren't paying for the fabric, they have no right to dictate. I use whatever I have, buy at local retailers, thrift shops and have been know to use shirts bought at church sales when you can stuff a bag for $2 and the fabric is decent, etc.
#46
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#47
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Our guild does not tell us where to buy fabric. Many rimes I get fabroc from Hancocks o they encourage us to use fanricfom the donation table which is what others dont want and what people have given us and sometimes you can get some really good stuff that you just may have to think what you would like to do with it as far as a pattern.
#48
When times as tough, we need to make choices that are right to us. You make your own judgement, however, guilds should not be tellling people where to shop! If you are uncomfortable with this guild perhaps you could find another or you and some friends could get together and sew quilts for charity - they will be so welcome!
#50
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: near Peoria Illinois
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Is it possible that at the LQS if you say you belong to "such and such guild" they give you a discount for the fabrics for the charity quilt? Or they have kits made up for a certain pattern for the guild to use as a charity quilt? Or have scraps bagged up for you to use? This would be the only reason for going to a specific place.
My guild has a LQS owner in it, and she has had offerings to the guild at times.
Otherwise, I'm like the others. I don't like being told how much to spend to give to charity.
My guild has a LQS owner in it, and she has had offerings to the guild at times.
Otherwise, I'm like the others. I don't like being told how much to spend to give to charity.
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