Stash Donation from Heron's Nest

 On Wednesday I picked up a huge donation of fabrics and notions from Adrienne Beaton at the Heron's Nest, one of the donees of our quilts.  When I dropped off the donations last Fall, Adrienne asked if we would take her mom's stash off her hands since no one in her family knew what to do with it.  I was hopeful that there would be lots of fabrics in the eight huge boxes I picked up but unfortunately, besides the Quilt Fuse and three pieces of flannel it wasn't a very successful haul.  Although Adrienne's mom probably loved her stash as much as we all love ours, most of the quilting fabrics were very dated and not the quality that we are used to these days.  Also, the majority of the fabrics were actually for garment construction.

I went through everything and pulled out anything that I thought could possibly be useful to someone.  I only saved 100% cottons.  There was a huge amount of broadcloth but only a couple of pieces that were cotton.  I tested all those to be sure.  All of those prints and broadcloth pieces have been washed but not ironed.  The would look better ironed but I just don't have the time and I don't think they will have much appeal.  They are definitely useful for scrap quilts or quilt backs but most of us don't have the space to store them.

I will start bringing them to our get togethers for you to choose from.  Remember, these are for your personal use.  I don't think we should be keeping a separate stash for our group.  I don't have room in my house and we all seem to be able to come up with enough fabrics for our projects by culling our own stashes.  

Sue mentioned that Bases will take any small scraps and offcuts from our projects.  Also, Joyce reminded me that any fabric donations to Bases don't even have to be sorted because they have volunteers who are used to doing that.  I called them up to confirm that because their website didn't have that info and I didn't want to burden them with things they cannot use or cause them extra work.  But it's all true and that is good for all of us to remember for the future.  Bases will take all your scraps no matter how tiny because these are all shredded and returned to fibre.  

I have another post to do about this fabric donation so stay tuned...