![]() The Blessing Box in Katy, Texas prepares care packages for women who go through a mastectomy. Sew Blessed Kentuckiana makes clothing to donate to children in third world countries. They can use fabric yardage as well as pieced quilt tops. They take cotton fabric, yarn, fleece, batting, sewing scissors, and thread.ġ9 Quilts for Natalie is an organization that provides quilts for cancer patients and grieving parents dealing with the loss of a child. Stitching Hearts World Wide in Pleasant Grove, Utah provides materials and tools for local service projects creating quilts, blankets, hats, etc ready to ship to those suffering from large scale natural disasters and human tragedies. Pipers Project in Kansas makes quilts for children in Foster Care and always needs fabric, thread, or batting. They are in need of baby quilts, fabric, and yarn donations. Warm Hearts, Warm Babies in Arvada, Colorado provides clothing, baby blankets, and essential items to premature newborns, newborn infants, and young children, in crisis, free of charge. Looks like an excellent system for distributing supplies to projects that will use them. Their Creative Reuse Center will also take paper, scrapbook supplies, paint, markers, glue, etc. Scrap B More in Baltimore, Maryland is a craft reuse shop that gives Teachers craft materials for classrooms and sponsors children’s craft/creativity workshops. US administration (and shipping recipients) are in Utah and Texas. Sorting fabric by color and cutting yardage into useable 3″ x 3″ squares is particularly helpful. Go here for more information on how to donate needed supplies. You can read more about this inspiring organization here. One Common Thread quilts employs women in Honduras who handmake hexagon quilts to support their families and bring them out of poverty. You can contact Renee at for more information. Renee teaches women in her local prison in Mississippi how to sew and these women make items to be sent to children in Uganda. The Forget Me Not Project is doing good at home and abroad. Also be sure to check the comments on this post as there are some great needs listed there as well. If you can’t find any local needs, here is a list of some specific projects and non-profits that are actively looking for fabric, batting and thread donations. Specific Organizations to Donate Fabric, Batting or Thread: You might want to check your local resources like prisons, homeless shelters, or refugee relief agencies that may teach sewing and quilting classes. One reader said she donates fabric to her local women’s prison where they teach quilting classes. Local animal shelters will often take fabric scraps to be used for pet bedding. ![]() You can find your local quilt guild using this list of world wide traditional quilt guilds here and local Modern Quilt Guilds here and ask them if they’re looking for any donations.Ĭheck with your local school or 4-H program to see what donations they are actively looking for as well. Guilds frequently head up charity projects. You can find your local Project Linus chapter here.Ĭheck with a local Quilt Guild. Project Linus is a wonderful organization that makes quilts for children in need. They typically need dark and patterned flannels and quilting cottons. You can find your local chapter here.Ĭheck your local Days for Girls chapter. Many local Quilts of Valorchapters (making quilts for local veterans) will gladly take quality red, white, and blue fabric. Look for an organization near you in need of donations Unusable fabric donations only cause bigger headaches for these shoe-string organizations. ![]() Important: Before you send off fabric willy-nilly, I do recommend contacting the organization directly before you donate to understand their specific needs and only send fabric they can put to good use. There are some great causes that can always use fabric, batting or thread donations. Or for anyone who wants to give unwanted fabric to a good cause, I’ve created an updated list of places to donate fabric. If you’re cleaning out your fabric stash as part of a sewing-room reorganization for the new year and looking for a good place to send excess fabric, I’ve got help for you. January always puts me in the mood to organize and purge.
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