Disposing of quilting materials

[Toffeesmum]

I’ve been quilting for years and years but now I’m at the point in my life when I need to get rid of my stock of materials, cottons, books, etc - I’ve got an excessive amount. Can anyone give me some ideas on how to dispose of them. I’m not talking of little scraps of material - I’ve hot a shelved wardrobe full of fat quarters, and another wardrobe with boxes and machines, etc.

Give them to another quilter, or seek out a local quilting or crafts group?

Where are you? what about local schools/ colleges ?

See if your local school wants them for textiles GCSE

See if a local college could use them for their art/textiles courses.

ebay them

Nursery schools? For crafts.

Animal shelter- for bedding.

eBay, sell in bulk?
People even sell empty loo roll tubes there.

Donate to Fine Cell Work?

Do you do anything on instagram? If so, could do a destash on there to sell off fabric or take a stall at local quilting/ craft event to sell everything off?

Put a request on your local "spotted" asking for any groups who make for charities. I would bite your hand off for fat quarters for my charity makes!

Alternatively, send them to me 😉🤣

Or sell them on Facebook marketplace

Or locate your local representative for the Linus Project and invite them to pass it all to people making Linus quilts.

There are quilting groups all over the country - ask your local ones if they are interested?
also many quilting groups have people making Linus quilts - donated materials will go to a very worthwhile cause
may be even contact Linus itself to see if they’d take it then distribute to makers

Just checked - hey will accept fabric

projectlinusuk.org.uk/faqs/

There are quilting buy and sell groups on Facebook

Would be snapped up on my local Facebook freebies page.

1. Sell them on Ebay/Facebook/Gumtree.
2. Give them to a local school.
3. Give them to a charity shop - this sort of thing sells very well.

There's loads of fabric 'de-stash' groups on Facebook for exactly this purpose.

There are people that make for charity - my niece makes things for a children's cause. I would look online for a local charity quilter.

I make quilts for care leavers and we share fabric amongst our group of quilt makers. I also try to source fabric for project Linus as their quilts have benefitted children very close to me directly

Yes, I mentioned Linus because our sewing group makes quilts and incubator covers for them and donations of fabric (and wadding) are always welcome. It’s a fantastic scheme.

EBay and title the listing 'Destash' then what you are selling.

Facebook market place under crafts. I find for smaller costs I can bag it up with the collectors name on the bag and ask them to post the money through the door. I've sold hundreds of pounds of 'destash' now with not a single issue.

Donate it to charity shops. Some of the bigger ones have craft sections!

Lots of ways to work through it. It's a big task though.

It depends whether you want to donate or sell or a combination of the two. In an attempt to get my 1990's quilting stash under control I makes quilts for Project Linus, they give me the wadding/batting and I provide everything else.

Don't underestimate the cost of what you have there, the price of good fabric is eye watering now.