Where do you buy your material when you are making charity quilts?
#61
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Lawrenceville, GA.
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I try to buy quality fabric, but I watch for it on sale. I like Hobby Lobby for my backings. They always have a 30% discount and they have their "clearance" table that has $6.99 and $7.99 for $3.00 and $4.00. I try my best to buy USA, but it's pretty darn hard to find any. Even the quilting shops have very little. I sometimes cut and piece my backings, just to use up my stash. I can understand the guild wanting you use quality material; especially for the children in the hospital. However, they should never dictate where you should buy your material. GiGi
#62
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Location: MN
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A friend of mine told me that someone donated fiberglass curtains to her church quilting quild for making quilts.
The request may have been to avoid getting something like that.
(I do cringe when I think of some of the scraps I donated to a quilting project before I knew any better - many many years ago - "blush" )
The request may have been to avoid getting something like that.
(I do cringe when I think of some of the scraps I donated to a quilting project before I knew any better - many many years ago - "blush" )
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#66
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I am a former LQS owner and when we made shop samples and had scraps from classes I would put them into a bin. I had two ladies that came and took every piece. even the 1 inch strips and small two inch pieces. They would coordinate the colors and make the most beautiful scrap quilts. Most were baby or lap size. Then another customer that had just purchased a Tin Lizzie and needed practice quilted them. All were given to local charities. Why don't you ask your local shop if they would be willing to do the same?
#70
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Holmen, WI
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Charity quilts should be made with what you have or what you can afford. For a guild to dictate what and where you buy is beyond belief. Offer to make what THEY buy. I would also question if the person or persons requiring that purchases be made at said LQS, is maybe a partner or silent owner of the shop.
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