Everybody's happy!

If any of Jane's neighbours had been twitching their curtains yesterday, they would have witnessed a rather strange event. First there was me arriving at her house, followed by Jane and I unloading five large boxes and umpteen carrier bags full of fabric and taking them all into the house.

Here it all is, before it got into my car! Then four hours later, we brought all the boxes and carrier bags out of the house, loaded them back into the car, and I drove off!

What they didn't know was that in those four hours, Jane and I had spent a busy time (apart from the coffee and the lunch bits!) sorting through the fabric, which had all been donated to project Linus, to weed out anything which wasn't completely suitable for making children's quilts. People have been so generous, and know that I am able to sell lots of non-quiltmaking fabrics, that I have been inundated with all kinds of fabrics, patterns and notions. However, since it all lives in my sewing room, otherwise known as DS's room, and he will want to come home and sleep in his bed over Christmas, I had to be realistic. But don't think any fabric you donated will be wasted or binned - on the contrary, it will all play its part. Jane and I managed to reduce the fabric to four boxes (one of tops, one of backing, one of fabric, and one with UFOs and 'kits' for tops in it) for me to take home. All the other fabric was bagged up and taken to the Leukemia Research charity shop in Lutterworth, where they will sell (and do sell) anything! When I arrived at the shop, the manager, Chris, was delighted to see all this fabric. She had been serving a lady who was buying fabric for nativity play costumes, and they were lacking something to make angels's costumes. I was able to dig out a large piece of embroidered white synthetic fabric which was perfect for the job! Any fabric which fails to sell in the shop will be sold as rags, to make money for this worthy charity. When I got home, I only had four boxes to take in, and these were easily stowed away.

So, not only have I reduced my fabric mountain to manageable proportions, but Jane and I had a great day and have helped to raise money for charity. Everybody's happy!