Announcing a New Process for Fabric & Yarn Donations: Fabric & Yarn Only Donation Appointments

Huge thanks to everyone that participated in our recent fabric and yarn donation drives! Those drives helped us test different donation processes to figure out what works best for our staff, volunteers, and community to take in donations in the most efficient way possible without overwhelming our Processing team and volunteers. If you’re curious about why our donation appointment policy came into effect and why it’s so vital for the health and safety of our staff and volunteers, please check out this video with perspectives from our dedicated Processing team.

Fabric and yarn have always been big sellers in our center, and we’ve seen an increase in customers at the center over the past year, meaning that already in-demand items are getting snapped up even more quickly than before, and our shelves empty out as soon as we put out new items. After looking at a variety of solutions to this problem, we’ve landed on one that may be able to address the issue of not having enough of these items in stock in the longterm. Introducing: Fabric and Yarn Only Appointments.

Starting this week, we are introducing a new appointment type for donors who have only fabric and/or yarn to donate. Donation appointments for these items are plentiful and donors should be able to get an appointment either same-day or the following day. These donations will be accepted at the register. We have dedicated fabric and yarn-processing volunteers ready, willing, and able to process these specific items! If you have items other than fabric and yarn to donate, we ask that you make either a small or large donation appointment to donate those items as they will require more processing capacity than we have at this time. We hope that by implementing this new donation appointment type, our donors will have an easier time finding an appointment time that works best for them and our shelves in the fabric and yarn sections will remain well-stocked for our customers. (BTW, donations of fabric and yarn are still welcome in both small and large donation appointments).

Thank you so much to our incredible community for continuing to support Austin Creative Reuse as we grow and adapt to our community’s needs. This past year has brought many changes to our organization, but all have been made with stability and longevity in mind. We celebrated a full decade of having a brick and mortar space this past September, and we look forward to at least a decade more of serving the Austin community!