Alie Ward

including making quilts for hospitals and shelters and hospice care and animals.

And Nancy C. says, I had a lot of surgeries as a kid and I'll never forget the moment I received a small quilt in the hospital.

I still have it today, Nancy writes, and it's amazing how something as simple as a quilt can be so powerful.

Just imagine if you started making quilts for people.

Can you imagine?

What a lovely thing to say, hey, I did that.

Jamie Worth says, there are a lot of people and organizations looking for donations of scrap fabric and quilting materials.

And Jamie said, my mom was big into quilting and unfortunately she passed away in September.

And while my dad and I haven't had the heart to go through most of her stuff, we will definitely be looking for ways to donate a lot of her materials.

And Jamie says a great thing about quilting is that it can make use of scraps of fabric that people may have just laying around their house from other projects.

Jamie also mentioned the Netflix documentary, The Quilters, which we talked about in last week's episode and said organizations like that are a great way to upcycle fabric that people may normally just throw out.

Barbara M. says, save your scrap pieces for stuffing into like stuffed cube seats for children or pillows for animals in shelters.

Tiger Yuri said, buy nothing groups are a great resource for fabric.

They say it's amazing how many people have stacks of fabric they would be happy to see go to a good home.

And patron Christine Traney said, I've been quilting for eight years and an important part of my practice is finding ways to be low impact and consumption responsible.

And it takes a lot of natural resources and questionable labor practices to manufacture fabric.

So you can source all your fabric secondhand from thrift stores, yard sales, free on internet marketplaces.

And they say this includes batting.

Like thin cotton blankets work great as batting.

Same for sourcing a sewing machine.