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need two suggestions for fabric

7 years ago

I'm purging fabric I've acquired from estate sales. I'm giving my "I'll never use that" quilting fabric to Project Linus and Love your baby that are local.

Two groups of fabric have me perplexed. One is good garment fabric. You know - nice wools and silks. I have a beautiful Indian fabric that is raw silk and embroidered for making a top. The other stuff is just yardage. As far as I know, Salvation Army and Goodwill just bale it and sell it with the unwanted/unusable clothing. I will not use this fabric. Most of it came from "$10. for the box" at estate sales.

The other is a cotton fabric. I'm not sure what it is called. It may be batiste. Two large pieces (white with large multicolored dots and the other, white with multi-colored turtles) would make a great backing for a kid's quilt, but it's too thin. I guess I could make a skirt or something similar with it. I washed the one with the dots and it came out just great. It didn't need ironing.

I can't seem to pass up those "anything you can get in a bag for $5." ending to estate sales. So, last week, I also picked up three or four of the same kind of fabric, but in pastel colors (about 1 yard each). It reminds me of what they used to make baby's dresses out of, but no one makes baby dresses anymore.

Any ideas how to use the above or who I might donate it to?

bkay

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