Is there any place in Seattle where crafters can do stash swaps? for Questionland Seattle

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Is there any place in Seattle where crafters can do stash swaps?

No, not that kind of stash.

I make quilts, and my stash of fabric has grown considerably over time. Some of those fabrics are patterns or colors I like, and I'm likely to use again. Others are not to my taste (I've inherited quite a few) or I had a change of heart after buying them, but I'm sure they're perfectly good fabrics for someone else out there.

Are there any events or gatherings in the Seattle area where quilters or craft-folk can bring loads of their unwanted supplies and leftovers to trade for new (one man's trash, etc.). It would be a great way to save money and cut down on the bulk of my stash, and a way to find some cooler older prints outside of the normal Jo-Ann's fare.

I'm not really interested in buying/selling/trading on Craigslist: this strikes me as the sort of thing that needs a big group in the flesh.

Sacrelicious asked in Making Art/Crafting 8 months ago | Report

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When I was living in Philly there was a group of people who organized a city wide thing yearly. They got a school to donate a gym and people brought bags of stuff and they go distributed to the appropriate piles I think there was a 5 buck charge that covered advertising and incidentals and then you could take whatever you found in your liking in the gym which had piles of clothing (like around 5 feet wide so you could dig and get to the bottom from each side) tons of fabric/ trim / wallpaper etc. They would refresh the piles throughout the day with what people brought to donate (I think if you came without stuff it was pricier at the door). And if that wasn't cool enough the exterior of the gym was lined with tables with sewing machines and mini workshops so if you wanted to learn a quick an dirty way to hem someone could show you or if you wanted to stick around for the turn a T shirt into
a skirt demo you could grab the various materials and watch the Demo. It was super fun and there was fantastic stuff because it was all stuff that people never quite got around to using but had picked for some reason or other.

I'm assuming with it's size that it had been going on for at least five years. It was uber organized ( the makes in Philly are surprisingly organized and I think it was started by some of the original etsy peeps who didn't head to NYC but that said it would probably be pretty easy to start a smaller version here and in a few years have it grow to something people put on their calendars. I think the people organizing it were called craft uprising. You can probably find something online and contact them and see what mistakes they made early on if you feel like making a similar thing here and use their "business plan" as a template. They also got in with the weekly there for free advertising and etsy also did some stuff and they had some other local business donated time and stuff as well. In a city as obsessed with vintage stuff there are alot of places that would probably jump at the chance to get their name on the wall as a sponsor

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