Donations of fabric turned to donations for people in need

May 25, 2025

For quite awhile now I have been focused on fabrics donated to me or to my church group. I get in a mindset that I need to work through the bags and piles and try to keep it as organized as possible while also producing end products. So that is the case. I have not posted much but thought I would do a montage of some of the end pieces going to the womens help center, mission, and outreach places.

When I get several mixed bags of material I try to cut down the already scrappy odd cut out fabric into usable squares of precut like sizes. It takes a long time but you end up with a nice stack of variety. The first quilt above is the odd pieces that were left over from all this cutting. I love a good coin quilt don't you?

A friend donated a large stack of 15 quilt tops she made from upcycled bumper pad fabrics. I finished all of them for the womens center. They are cozy with bits of minky and other fabric appliques that have texture.

Some flannel some denim some mixed. My mantra...just sew it up as it doesn't do any good in a bag or box in the closet.

Skinny pieces that were still the width of the fabric I made into several strippy blankets. These are perfect for play mats and all donated.

In other works, my church group makes bedrolls (like sleeping bags) out of all kinds of textiles and the inside is a variety of bits and pieces of odds and ends. They are then lined with old sheets and tied together and sewn into sleeping bag and rolled up and tied with old ties.

Once finished we take a cart full at the end of each month to the mission to pass out. We have been putting a hygiene bag and pillow rolled up in side but we don't always have the donations for that.

I am not sure I posted these but I was given some large quilt tops unfinished. I layered and quilted simply a few to give to some outreach organizations.