Donate your unwanted fabric and sewing supplies

📦 Donations Welcome

We gratefully accept donations of unwanted fabric and sewing supplies whenever we’re open. This includes sewing machines and overlockers.

Please bring your donations into The Sewstainable Barn during opening hours:
Tuesday–Friday, 10:30am–2:00pm

What We Accept

  • Fabric
  • Sewing threads including embroidery threads
  • Buttons
  • Ribbon
  • Trimmings
  • Beads
  • Wool
  • Lace or vintage lace 
  • Wedding dresses and veils 
  • Sewing tools (needles, pins, scissors in good condition)
  • Sewing extras e.g. bias binding, velcrow
  • Sewing machines and overlockers 
  • Craft supplies

Wish List - December 2025 / January 2026 - We really need the following items:

  • Red, yellow, orange, grey fabrics
  • Plastic A4 document folders
  • Old books on nature, birds, butterflies, nursery rhymes
  • Tartan fabrics 
  • Upholstery fabrics 
  • Beads
  • Vintage lace

What We Kindly Ask You NOT to Donate

These items just don’t sell and create unnecessary waste:

  • Patterns
  • Magazines
  • Interfacing
  • Tablecloths and napkins
  • Bed sheets
  • Curtains
  • Rusty needles
  • Blunt scissors
  • Fabric cutting boards
  • Clothes

Important Note

We reserve the right to pause donations when our shelves are full and we need to concentrate on other areas of our social enterprise.

If you have a large amount to donate, for example the contents of a sewing room, and would like to arrange a collection, please email fritha@secretprojects.org We can collect within a 20 mile radius to The Sewstainable Barn.

 

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