ugly fabric

Lisa, put that 10 yards of ugliness in the Salvation Army pile, and someone whose taste is different from yours will love it and drag it home. And you will no longer be "stuck" in that area of your life.

There, now don't you feel better? :)

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

karlisa wrote:

Write "100% cotton" on a slip of non-woven interfacing and sew it to the fabric before you take it to the Salvation Army.

Joy Beeson

the bolt of hideousness is sitting in my bedroom *almost* touching the Salvation Army bags I have piled up. I'm going to do it this time! Be gone hideous fabric and slink back to the doctor's waiting room from whence you came! :-D

I may have to have a drink afterwards to steady my nerves after tossing

10 yards of *any* fabric. ;-)

lisa

the bolt of hideousness is sitting in my bedroom *almost* touching the Salvation Army bags I have piled up. I'm going to do it this time! Be gone hideous fabric and slink back to the doctor's waiting room from whence you came! :-D

I just gave 10 metres of sofa covering fabric to my neighbour's daughter... feels real good! :)

I feel your pain here.. But it could be worse (read on).....

Today, I was looking for a certain piece of fabric, and came across TWO whole bolts of very heavy, tapestry weave upholstery fabric (22 yards total) in one of my many plastic "footlocker" bins.. Now this is fabric I personally purchased myself with some grand plan in mind.. It is absolutely, positively HIDEOUS.. Do NOT ask me where my head was when I picked this out... If there is one thing worse than finding free uglyness in your stash, it is finding expensive uglyness in your stash...

I am now afraid to open other bins... (laughter)

me

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This should be embroidered on a pillow!! ROFLOL

I went through my stash yesterday (well, part of it), and sorted it into piles according to type of garment it will work best for: Blouses, Dresses, Pants, Skirts, Lingerie or Sleepwear, and Jackets. The pile for Pants is enormous, and mostly black! What was I thinking???

But my biggest problem at the moment is to figure out what to do with all the scraps, which are mostly wool, and not quite big enough to do much with. I will probably bin them up and put them in another part of the house, as my "new" sewing room (three years) is too small to house those, too. Maybe I'll go into business making stuffed wool toys, or something. What a waste.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Make it into bodices and sell them on ebay to the ren-fair crowd! ;)

Saving it for your Goth Granny phase? ;)

Cut into 10" square: sew them all together, 10 on a side, into big patchwork blankets... Back them with something waterproof and sell them at a craft fair as picnic blankets!

James and I are going to do something similar as a Camp Blanket for him to take to Scout Camps.

Kate, you made me laugh at the Goth Granny idea! Too funny.

The wools are way too nice to be picnic blankets, alpaca, cashmere, mohair, etc. I was sewing like a demon for about six months, getting ready for my wool class, and there are some super-duper pieces there. But I'll figure it out. Thanks for the suggestion, though! That sounds like a great project for wee James. :) I'll put the idea in the filing cabinet for when Zachary is older.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Kate Dicey wrote:

So make a patchwork winter coat! Wearable Art!! Of course, it would take some planning to get the right colors next to each other, might need a little judicious trim here and there, but it should be do-able.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Like a coat of many colors? Well, given that I still have a boxful of silk remnants to make such a jacket, mm, from maybe 12 years ago, it's not likely that will ever happen. But I have been experimenting a bit with some felting. But as we've been discussing on the FL washer thread, my washer does not really get hot enough, even on the "hot" setting, to truly "boil" the wool. Our toploader did a much better job, probably because of the greater agitation.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Olwyn Mary wrote:

Hmm, I wonder if there's any 10-step programme for fabriholics like us. FA, you know. "Hi, my name is Ulla and I'm a fabriholic." Arrgh! NO, I can't part with any of my stuff! I just added two metres of lovely apple-green and

1,5 m of ink-blue linnen to my hoard, to be used this summer to make into loose kirtles to wear with jeans and skirts. Easiest cut and incredible effect, at least that's what I imagine. The blue stuff might look good with some simple embroideries in white, while the green would do best with some large mother-of-pearl buttons. We'll see. But I could never part with anything salvation-army-style. You are soooo brave! ;-))

U.

"karlisa" wrote in news:1148686363.141588.175200 @j55g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Not "tossing," but more like relocating. Displacing. Reassigning. Someone will be ever so delighted to have it. You can also offer it on Freecycle.org and see that someone who really wants it gets it. Or make ugly quilts and donate them to the homeless.