Where do you buy your material when you are making charity quilts?
03-13-2012, 08:23 PM
#82
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Location: Fulton,Ms
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Just a question on the double knit fabric. I haven't done much quilting, but did get a box of double knit fabric cut up in strips for a quilt or two . What do you use in the middle and back , as the fabric is quite a bit heavier than the cotton fabric? Would you use flannel on the back and no batting or just us batting and a cotton on the back? thanks myra
03-14-2012, 12:17 AM
#83
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Coastal Georgia
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I would not make charity quilts for that guild.
It's one thing to ask that quality be good 100% cotton however telling folks where to buy is not their place to tell you so.
I'd recommend you buy where you want, make the quilts,and donate them yourself if they won't accept yours.
I belong currently to two guilds and one of them we have been told recently to patronize a LQS and a member of the guild who has a studio and sells AccuQuilt machines and dies. We pretty much told her to KOAS and that we would purchase our fabrics and AccuQuilt machines where we wanted to.
Personally with both guilds I'll do certain things for them but handing them quilts is not one of them to donate to whoever. I help them in other ways.
Personally I make charity quilts but I chose the fabrics I want to use and I make contact myself with organizations I want to donate them to.
No guild has any right to dictate where we buy our fabrics as long as it is good quality 100% cotton. And I can understand that part of it. Personally I feel we should make charity quilts of the quality we ourselves would like to receive.
I just finished cutting 1200 charm squares for one of the guilds and I have to say a bit of the fabric donated was awful to the point of being able to see light through the fabric. To me if I can put my hand behind the fabric and see it is not good qualty fabric. Fortunately only about 1% of it was like that. I still cut it and will let them decide if they want to use it or not.
It's one thing to ask that quality be good 100% cotton however telling folks where to buy is not their place to tell you so.
I'd recommend you buy where you want, make the quilts,and donate them yourself if they won't accept yours.
I belong currently to two guilds and one of them we have been told recently to patronize a LQS and a member of the guild who has a studio and sells AccuQuilt machines and dies. We pretty much told her to KOAS and that we would purchase our fabrics and AccuQuilt machines where we wanted to.
Personally with both guilds I'll do certain things for them but handing them quilts is not one of them to donate to whoever. I help them in other ways.
Personally I make charity quilts but I chose the fabrics I want to use and I make contact myself with organizations I want to donate them to.
No guild has any right to dictate where we buy our fabrics as long as it is good quality 100% cotton. And I can understand that part of it. Personally I feel we should make charity quilts of the quality we ourselves would like to receive.
I just finished cutting 1200 charm squares for one of the guilds and I have to say a bit of the fabric donated was awful to the point of being able to see light through the fabric. To me if I can put my hand behind the fabric and see it is not good qualty fabric. Fortunately only about 1% of it was like that. I still cut it and will let them decide if they want to use it or not.
06-11-2012, 10:11 PM
#85
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: S. W. Indiana
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Forgive me for this being a long post but I am just curious. When making charity quilts where do you purchase your material? If you belong to a guild do they tell you to buy at lqs and not to buy material at a specific large retailer? I belong to an organization that makes charity quilts and we were told to buy the material at either a lqs or a specific retailer. While I understand they don't want fabric that looks and feels "cheap" I think that if I am going to buy the material for a quilt to be donated I should decide where I should buy. I would love to shop at the lqs store but times are tough and I can't afford to buy at a lqs. What are your opinions on this subject?
06-12-2012, 01:08 AM
#86
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 217
Maybe this whole topic is a sensitive one for me, but I will not make a quilt to donate made of fabric I wouldn't use on a gift quilt. 'Charity' does not mean 'ugly, cheap, thrown together with whatever is left over, who cares'. I don't differentiate between types of receivers, known to me or strangers. I trly to learn something from every quilt I have the joy to make.
This being said, unless there was a really good reason for it, I don't think I would appreciate being told where to buy my fabric.
This being said, unless there was a really good reason for it, I don't think I would appreciate being told where to buy my fabric.
06-12-2012, 03:36 AM
#88
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Location: Bluebell
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I can see why they may suggest you, the group,give the lqs some business, to support them. The lqs does give some support to our local quild however to suggest you buy everything there or to be told to is a bit much. Personally, when I make charity quilts, it is often fabric from my stash, or fabric that was given to me or clearance material otherwise I couldn't afford to make as many as I do.
06-12-2012, 05:19 PM
#90
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Location: Mechanicsville, IA
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I would not feel comfortable in a guild where they TELL me where to buy. On the other hand I would not feel comfortable making a charity quilt of fabric I didn't feel was of good enough quality to use in my own quilts.
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