The last week I've been going through my fabric/craft stash/wardrobe.
Particularly one big box mostly containing fabrics not suitable for quilting. The box once contained a 21" bulky television, was filled to the brim with stuff! I don't remember how many years it has taken up space at the bottom of the wardrobe. Every time it annoyed me, I postponed doing anything to it, until beginning this week!
(forgot to take photo of that box)
Most of the fabrics were cotton mix, pieces from curtains and other things I've made, old jeans, flannel etc.
Most of it will be donated. I still have three heaps to go through; jeans, flannel and fabrics suitable for grocery bags.
My intention was to make a denim quilt from old jeans... Well, not anymore! I may make a floor rug, or grocery bags.... I shall see...
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and we always need grocery bags.
Not the most interesting fabrics, but suitable for bags.
A small heap with cotton quilting fabrics I can use.
The greenish/white fabric to the right is furniture fabric, I may use on a chair where the seat badly needs a new cover.
To my surprise, I discovered these two boxes!
I had totally forgotten about them!
They date back to 2006!! I had many pen pals and I got the idea to ask each of them to send me two 5-1/2" fabric squares. Some were very generous and sent me even more. As you can see from the labels on top of the boxes, there are fabric pieces from Brunei, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand as well as from my DF Kari in Norway. Most pals have stopped writing, but Waltraud in Germany is still a very dear pen friend to me.
I have yet to go through these boxes. I even have the envelopes! What a treasure!
After all the years stored away, I notice some pins have rusted (always high humidity here), I hope the fabrics are not too damaged. I will definitely make a quilt using these treasured squares!
Linking up with:
Angela at So Scrappy
Melva at MelvaLovesScraps
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