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<p>[QUOTE="Born2it, post: 4399209, member: 59977"]I can say from experience that unless the maker is someone doing it professionally, or in an exceptional quantity, the odds of all the fabric being from the same era are virtually nil. I know intellectually that there are people who just go and buy the fabric from a fabric store, but I (and my Mom) cut the buttons and trim off unfixable clothes, stored them in the appropriate box, and might not use the fabric for several decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>The quilts my Mom and I made often had fabric from a 50 year spread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Born2it, post: 4399209, member: 59977"]I can say from experience that unless the maker is someone doing it professionally, or in an exceptional quantity, the odds of all the fabric being from the same era are virtually nil. I know intellectually that there are people who just go and buy the fabric from a fabric store, but I (and my Mom) cut the buttons and trim off unfixable clothes, stored them in the appropriate box, and might not use the fabric for several decades. The quilts my Mom and I made often had fabric from a 50 year spread.[/QUOTE]
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