Originally Posted by maviskw

This is the most important thread I have ever seen. I'm sewing as fast as I can to get rid of the scraps. The whole yard stuff will be easy enough to sell or give away.
There are many missions all over the world who need fabric to teach young girls to sew. They need sewing machines, too. Some of them would like sewing machines that don't plug into a socket. There is the Christian Appalachian Project, The Sewing Machine Project, The Franciscan Missions, and I'm sure there are more that would love to have sewing supplies.
We have several churches and groups near here who take whatever fabric they can get their hands on and make quilts for charity. My children will know about those.
Thanks for starting this thread. I hope our "stash" finds a good home after we are gone.

Here's a good place for this cute poem I've had for many years. I know it from memory. (Well, almost.)

Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better
To paint a picture or write a letter?
Bake a cake or plant a seed;
Ponder the difference between want and need?

Dust if you must, but there's not much time
With rivers to swim and mountains to climb.
Music to hear and books to read,
Friends to cherish and life to lead.

Dust if you must but the world's out there
With the sun in your eyes and the wind in your hair,
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain,
This day will not come around again.

Dust if you must but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it's not kind.
Then when you go, and go you must,
You, yourself, will make more dust. Author unknown.