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Batting Scraps
Hi Guys,
I should imagine there are a LOT of you out there who have bags full of batting leftovers and are wondering what to do with them. I had a ton of old poly batt scraps and some were "adequate" sized pieces, the size that would be suitable for a miniature quilt. But they were poly batting and that stuff is yucky. I had been tearing it up and using it to stuff small needlework pillows that I finish for a designer. Anyway, I was cleaning up the sewing room and knew I had wayyyyy to much of this stuff laying around and so I sent Jill at Critter comforts an e-mail asking her if she would like the stuff. I received a resounding YES and started to sort through my scraps. Jill had questioned me about what I meant by "adequate" and said that she *could* use the long skinny pieces that I also had! You know -- the leftovers from an 84" wide quilt that used 90" wide batting -- those two long pieces that are about 3' or 4" wide and really long!! So, I packed all this batting in a box to send to Jill. I needed to go by JoAnns before the P.O. so I bought several yards of their clearance fabrics at about $1.00 a yard to include and I tossed in all of that nasty poly-cotton backing from when I redid my DMIL's cat quilt and that made a pretty ice bunch of stuff for all those "baby" quilts that Jill makes :-)))! Jill uses the basting spray to keep those little pieces of batting together while she quilts the animal quilts, so even fairly narrow stuff is usable. I am sure she would be more than happy to get all of the leftovers from any of us willing to send them to her! I am also pretty sure she doesn't care if it's poly batting or W&N, etc. This way, Jill gets stuff she needs for the "baby" quilts and we get to clean out some of the stuff hiding in the dark recesses of our sewing room closets :-))). CiaoMeow ^;;^ .. PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! |
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You know, I was just wondering that the other day - what to do with batting
scraps! I have more than I can use for craft projects, especially since I don't really do craft projects! (But ya gotta keep some just in case....) -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " wrote in message ... Hi Guys, I should imagine there are a LOT of you out there who have bags full of batting leftovers and are wondering what to do with them. I had a ton of old poly batt scraps and some were "adequate" sized pieces, the size that would be suitable for a miniature quilt. But they were poly batting and that stuff is yucky. I had been tearing it up and using it to stuff small needlework pillows that I finish for a designer. Anyway, I was cleaning up the sewing room and knew I had wayyyyy to much of this stuff laying around and so I sent Jill at Critter comforts an e-mail asking her if she would like the stuff. I received a resounding YES and started to sort through my scraps. Jill had questioned me about what I meant by "adequate" and said that she *could* use the long skinny pieces that I also had! You know -- the leftovers from an 84" wide quilt that used 90" wide batting -- those two long pieces that are about 3' or 4" wide and really long!! So, I packed all this batting in a box to send to Jill. I needed to go by JoAnns before the P.O. so I bought several yards of their clearance fabrics at about $1.00 a yard to include and I tossed in all of that nasty poly-cotton backing from when I redid my DMIL's cat quilt and that made a pretty ice bunch of stuff for all those "baby" quilts that Jill makes :-)))! Jill uses the basting spray to keep those little pieces of batting together while she quilts the animal quilts, so even fairly narrow stuff is usable. I am sure she would be more than happy to get all of the leftovers from any of us willing to send them to her! I am also pretty sure she doesn't care if it's poly batting or W&N, etc. This way, Jill gets stuff she needs for the "baby" quilts and we get to clean out some of the stuff hiding in the dark recesses of our sewing room closets :-))). CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! |
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What a great idea, hadn't thought of it. If anyone around the Tacoma,
Washington area has poly batting scraps I'd take some and be most grateful. I'm making Trauma bears for the Domestic Violence Shelters and Police Dept. I have fabric but stuffing them is becoming a financial problem. No reason I couldn't use poly batting scraps. My email address is ValkyrieMI at yahoo you know the rest. If you would please put "bears" in the subject line I won't inadvertently dump it as spam. If you send me a note we can work out another good use for this stuff. I'd be shredding it up for bear stuffing anyway so the size of the scrap wouldn't make any difference. Plus you could squash a lot of that into a box and still be pretty light for cheap mailing rates. I'm in a wheelchair and no longer drive so I'm afraid picking them up would be a problem. Val "frood" wrote in message m... You know, I was just wondering that the other day - what to do with batting scraps! I have more than I can use for craft projects, especially since I don't really do craft projects! (But ya gotta keep some just in case....) -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " wrote in message ... Hi Guys, I should imagine there are a LOT of you out there who have bags full of batting leftovers and are wondering what to do with them. I had a ton of old poly batt scraps and some were "adequate" sized pieces, the size that would be suitable for a miniature quilt. But they were poly batting and that stuff is yucky. I had been tearing it up and using it to stuff small needlework pillows that I finish for a designer. Anyway, I was cleaning up the sewing room and knew I had wayyyyy to much of this stuff laying around and so I sent Jill at Critter comforts an asking her if she would like the stuff. I received a resounding YES and started to sort through my scraps. Jill had questioned me about what I meant by "adequate" and said that she *could* use the long skinny pieces that I also had! You know -- the leftovers from an 84" wide quilt that used 90" wide batting -- those two long pieces that are about 3' or 4" wide and really long!! So, I packed all this batting in a box to send to Jill. I needed to go by JoAnns before the P.O. so I bought several yards of their clearance fabrics at about $1.00 a yard to include and I tossed in all of that nasty poly-cotton backing from when I redid my DMIL's cat quilt and that made a pretty ice bunch of stuff for all those "baby" quilts that Jill makes :-)))! Jill uses the basting spray to keep those little pieces of batting together while she quilts the animal quilts, so even fairly narrow stuff is usable. I am sure she would be more than happy to get all of the leftovers from any of us willing to send them to her! I am also pretty sure she doesn't care if it's poly batting or W&N, etc. This way, Jill gets stuff she needs for the "baby" quilts and we get to clean out some of the stuff hiding in the dark recesses of our sewing room closets :-))). CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! |
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We give batting scraps to the ladies in our area that make Hug a Bears.
They give the bears to hospitals and police departments, etc. They are always pleased to receive all our scraps. -- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " wrote in message ... Hi Guys, I should imagine there are a LOT of you out there who have bags full of batting leftovers and are wondering what to do with them. I had a ton of old poly batt scraps and some were "adequate" sized pieces, the size that would be suitable for a miniature quilt. But they were poly batting and that stuff is yucky. I had been tearing it up and using it to stuff small needlework pillows that I finish for a designer. Anyway, I was cleaning up the sewing room and knew I had wayyyyy to much of this stuff laying around and so I sent Jill at Critter comforts an e-mail asking her if she would like the stuff. I received a resounding YES and started to sort through my scraps. Jill had questioned me about what I meant by "adequate" and said that she *could* use the long skinny pieces that I also had! You know -- the leftovers from an 84" wide quilt that used 90" wide batting -- those two long pieces that are about 3' or 4" wide and really long!! So, I packed all this batting in a box to send to Jill. I needed to go by JoAnns before the P.O. so I bought several yards of their clearance fabrics at about $1.00 a yard to include and I tossed in all of that nasty poly-cotton backing from when I redid my DMIL's cat quilt and that made a pretty ice bunch of stuff for all those "baby" quilts that Jill makes :-)))! Jill uses the basting spray to keep those little pieces of batting together while she quilts the animal quilts, so even fairly narrow stuff is usable. I am sure she would be more than happy to get all of the leftovers from any of us willing to send them to her! I am also pretty sure she doesn't care if it's poly batting or W&N, etc. This way, Jill gets stuff she needs for the "baby" quilts and we get to clean out some of the stuff hiding in the dark recesses of our sewing room closets :-))). CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! |
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That's what we do here too.
Taria "Donna in Idaho (remove invalid)" wrote: We give batting scraps to the ladies in our area that make Hug a Bears. They give the bears to hospitals and police departments, etc. They are always pleased to receive all our scraps. -- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " wrote in message ... Hi Guys, I should imagine there are a LOT of you out there who have bags full of batting leftovers and are wondering what to do with them. I had a ton of old poly batt scraps and some were "adequate" sized pieces, the size that would be suitable for a miniature quilt. But they were poly batting and that stuff is yucky. I had been tearing it up and using it to stuff small needlework pillows that I finish for a designer. Anyway, I was cleaning up the sewing room and knew I had wayyyyy to much of this stuff laying around and so I sent Jill at Critter comforts an e-mail asking her if she would like the stuff. I received a resounding YES and started to sort through my scraps. Jill had questioned me about what I meant by "adequate" and said that she *could* use the long skinny pieces that I also had! You know -- the leftovers from an 84" wide quilt that used 90" wide batting -- those two long pieces that are about 3' or 4" wide and really long!! So, I packed all this batting in a box to send to Jill. I needed to go by JoAnns before the P.O. so I bought several yards of their clearance fabrics at about $1.00 a yard to include and I tossed in all of that nasty poly-cotton backing from when I redid my DMIL's cat quilt and that made a pretty ice bunch of stuff for all those "baby" quilts that Jill makes :-)))! Jill uses the basting spray to keep those little pieces of batting together while she quilts the animal quilts, so even fairly narrow stuff is usable. I am sure she would be more than happy to get all of the leftovers from any of us willing to send them to her! I am also pretty sure she doesn't care if it's poly batting or W&N, etc. This way, Jill gets stuff she needs for the "baby" quilts and we get to clean out some of the stuff hiding in the dark recesses of our sewing room closets :-))). CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! |
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and I can attest to the fact that all these scraps get well used. I belong
to a Guild of about 25 quilters, we had our meeting last Wed. evening as we all sat around big tables and cut out Hug a Bears. By the end of the evening we had 50 done in the brightest most huggable colors and patterns you have ever seen. These will all go to Auburn Memorial Hospital, a local fire co. and a local EMS unit. We all had scraps to donate and have decided that was one of the most fun evenings we had had in several years at Guild. Marilyn in Moravia |
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Man- I must have the most pickie charity groups in the world. I called
the Hospital and Police Bear group here and they said they didn't like batting, its too hard to stuff wth and they make lumps in the bears My local hospital won't accept Preemie clothes or quilts, just knitted caps..Oh well. Kay "Donna in Idaho (remove invalid)" wrote in message ... We give batting scraps to the ladies in our area that make Hug a Bears. They give the bears to hospitals and police departments, etc. They are always pleased to receive all our scraps. -- Donna in Idaho! Project Linus Boise/SW Idaho Coordinator Website: http://donnakwilts.tripod.com/ Remove ".remove.invalid" to reply The ultimate inspiration is the deadline! "Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " wrote in message ... Hi Guys, I should imagine there are a LOT of you out there who have bags full of batting leftovers and are wondering what to do with them. I had a ton of old poly batt scraps and some were "adequate" sized pieces, the size that would be suitable for a miniature quilt. But they were poly batting and that stuff is yucky. I had been tearing it up and using it to stuff small needlework pillows that I finish for a designer. Anyway, I was cleaning up the sewing room and knew I had wayyyyy to much of this stuff laying around and so I sent Jill at Critter comforts an asking her if she would like the stuff. I received a resounding YES and started to sort through my scraps. Jill had questioned me about what I meant by "adequate" and said that she *could* use the long skinny pieces that I also had! You know -- the leftovers from an 84" wide quilt that used 90" wide batting -- those two long pieces that are about 3' or 4" wide and really long!! So, I packed all this batting in a box to send to Jill. I needed to go by JoAnns before the P.O. so I bought several yards of their clearance fabrics at about $1.00 a yard to include and I tossed in all of that nasty poly-cotton backing from when I redid my DMIL's cat quilt and that made a pretty ice bunch of stuff for all those "baby" quilts that Jill makes :-)))! Jill uses the basting spray to keep those little pieces of batting together while she quilts the animal quilts, so even fairly narrow stuff is usable. I am sure she would be more than happy to get all of the leftovers from any of us willing to send them to her! I am also pretty sure she doesn't care if it's poly batting or W&N, etc. This way, Jill gets stuff she needs for the "baby" quilts and we get to clean out some of the stuff hiding in the dark recesses of our sewing room closets :-))). CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! |
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"The Laws" wrote in message ... Man- I must have the most pickie charity groups in the world. I called the Hospital and Police Bear group here and they said they didn't like batting, its too hard to stuff wth and they make lumps in the bears My local hospital won't accept Preemie clothes or quilts, just knitted caps..Oh well. Kay Isn't that just sad. The poly batting works just fine, you just have to shred it up a little before stuffing to keep the animal lump free. The neighboring large city doesn't want hand made anything. They will however take cash so they can buy bears, blankets and preemie clothes. Then in the next breath they cry about not getting enough donations to have bears and such. Doesn't make much sense to me. I called their Women's Shelter and Rehab Center once and asked them if they would like two sewing machines I had, in very good working order. They explained they didn't take used articles but if I wanted to sell them and send them the money that would be very nice. I guess I'm not that nice, I didn't do it. The little community I am in has all kinds of volunteers making things. There are groups of ladies who meet regularly to knit and crochet blankets, hats, scarves and mittens. Repair donated clothing, and I mean when they get done this stuff is good as new, looks great. They have a little quilting group that is always making quilts for one reson or the other. My opinion about this is that the community benefits from both ends of donated goods and volunteers to use them. It makes people have a sense of community to do something worth while that benefits those who are in need and give those who do these things for them a purpose and to be needed. The cash only people are really missing the boat IMHO. Val |
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I have been stuffing pillows with it.....finished a project...no pillow form
....saw this on tv....lady made envelope of batting then filled it with scraps of batting....worked very slick. "Tia Mary-remove nekoluvr to reply " wrote in message ... Hi Guys, I should imagine there are a LOT of you out there who have bags full of batting leftovers and are wondering what to do with them. I had a ton of old poly batt scraps and some were "adequate" sized pieces, the size that would be suitable for a miniature quilt. But they were poly batting and that stuff is yucky. I had been tearing it up and using it to stuff small needlework pillows that I finish for a designer. Anyway, I was cleaning up the sewing room and knew I had wayyyyy to much of this stuff laying around and so I sent Jill at Critter comforts an e-mail asking her if she would like the stuff. I received a resounding YES and started to sort through my scraps. Jill had questioned me about what I meant by "adequate" and said that she *could* use the long skinny pieces that I also had! You know -- the leftovers from an 84" wide quilt that used 90" wide batting -- those two long pieces that are about 3' or 4" wide and really long!! So, I packed all this batting in a box to send to Jill. I needed to go by JoAnns before the P.O. so I bought several yards of their clearance fabrics at about $1.00 a yard to include and I tossed in all of that nasty poly-cotton backing from when I redid my DMIL's cat quilt and that made a pretty ice bunch of stuff for all those "baby" quilts that Jill makes :-)))! Jill uses the basting spray to keep those little pieces of batting together while she quilts the animal quilts, so even fairly narrow stuff is usable. I am sure she would be more than happy to get all of the leftovers from any of us willing to send them to her! I am also pretty sure she doesn't care if it's poly batting or W&N, etc. This way, Jill gets stuff she needs for the "baby" quilts and we get to clean out some of the stuff hiding in the dark recesses of our sewing room closets :-))). CiaoMeow ^;;^ . PAX, Tia Mary ^;;^ Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their WHISKERS!! Nothing is complete without a few cat hairs! |
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My group Round Barn quilters started making quilts from everyone's overflow
fabrics, stuff we bought and then for whatever reason didn't want anymore....Just last week we gave four fire quilts to a family whose house had burned down......great feeling to do something to help perfect strangers. We have wonderful thank you notes to remind us how often this random act of kindness touches peoples lives.....we also donate to Pediatrics at the hospital and a daycare for Alzheimers patients...willingly accepted because of durability and washability.....Nothing fancy 6 in ch squares, the bighter the better , tied. We have a cutting sorting night every so often, make up packets of 63 squares ....everyone takes several home and brings back tops,sew together 7 x 9 then as a group we have a tying night....make small quilts or sew 4 together for a full size quilt.... Mauvice in WI "Marilyn" wrote in message ... and I can attest to the fact that all these scraps get well used. I belong to a Guild of about 25 quilters, we had our meeting last Wed. evening as we all sat around big tables and cut out Hug a Bears. By the end of the evening we had 50 done in the brightest most huggable colors and patterns you have ever seen. These will all go to Auburn Memorial Hospital, a local fire co. and a local EMS unit. We all had scraps to donate and have decided that was one of the most fun evenings we had had in several years at Guild. Marilyn in Moravia |
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