Where to donate quilts made with adult/floral fabrics?
#31
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
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You would be surprised how beautiful quilts are with multiple of a shade.
If you h ave a pattern that calls for blue, cut from all your blues.
Search google for scrap quilts, and go from there. Just because they fall under the Scrap unbrella doesn't mean they can't be elegant and beautiful.
If you h ave a pattern that calls for blue, cut from all your blues.
Search google for scrap quilts, and go from there. Just because they fall under the Scrap unbrella doesn't mean they can't be elegant and beautiful.
#33
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Location: Chula Vista CA
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There are so many good suggestions. I was going to suggest any emergency response area - like a Red Cross, or Police Dept. My niece works in an emergency room at a hospital and they keep stuffed animals and even blankets. People come into the ER with the patient that sometimes need a hug.
#34
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Lots of good suggestions. Just be sure and check with the charity first. I live in a rural area and a number of years back a quilting group in one of the neighboring towns made small quilts and gave to the sheriff's office to use and after a couple of years most of them ended up in a clothing bank in my town.
Does it matter to you if it ends up at Goodwill or being used as a dog blanket? People who don't quilt have no idea what goes into making one. To a disinterested person, a quilt may be no better than a fleece throw you can buy at big-mart for $15.00.
I don't think any of us want our quilts to be put up on a shelf and never used out of fear of getting it dirty, but neither do we want to imagine it will end up being used to haul around chickens in the back of a truck!
I hope the quilts you make to donate will be used and appreciated. And, yes, respected, a little. Like they deserve.
#35
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Location: Upper Michigan
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I've done women's shelters, foster care, I've asked drs as they do charities here for diabetes n br cancer, I look for ppl raising money for medical bills , the local hospital has like Ronald mc Donald type rooms I've donated to, I've even donated to human society raffels!
#39
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Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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You know, this brings to mind a situation I have pondered about. We make quilts to practice, to experiment, to "use up our stash", to donate so it goes to some good purpose. We have no control over what happens to those quilts once they are out of our grasp.
Does it matter to you if it ends up at Goodwill or being used as a dog blanket? People who don't quilt have no idea what goes into making one. To a disinterested person, a quilt may be no better than a fleece throw you can buy at big-mart for $15.00.
I don't think any of us want our quilts to be put up on a shelf and never used out of fear of getting it dirty, but neither do we want to imagine it will end up being used to haul around chickens in the back of a truck!
I hope the quilts you make to donate will be used and appreciated. And, yes, respected, a little. Like they deserve.
Does it matter to you if it ends up at Goodwill or being used as a dog blanket? People who don't quilt have no idea what goes into making one. To a disinterested person, a quilt may be no better than a fleece throw you can buy at big-mart for $15.00.
I don't think any of us want our quilts to be put up on a shelf and never used out of fear of getting it dirty, but neither do we want to imagine it will end up being used to haul around chickens in the back of a truck!
I hope the quilts you make to donate will be used and appreciated. And, yes, respected, a little. Like they deserve.
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