Five year rule
#12
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: ontario,canada
Posts: 474
I just cleaned up my knitting machine(it was a project for an everything went wrong sewing day ;-) ). It has been packed away for over 20 years. Wow it's a beauty. I had often thought that I should get rid of it but now I am so glad that I didn't. Where would I find one now in such perfect condition? So nope, not 5 years.
#14
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 903
My sewing room also has my clothes closet in there. Lately, I've been cleaning out clothes on a very frequent basis in order to make room for fabric. That being said, anything I no longer like, be it clothing or fabric, is likely to make it into the donation box - no matter how old it is. I will confess that I have a length of a silk woven fabric that I bought probably 20 or more years ago that is still hanging in there. Maybe I'll do something with that soon
#15
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,165
Toss scraps. No one wants them, and I won't use them. I don't like scrappy quilts. If I can make Candies using a Sizzix die, and it's a fabric I really like, I will, but if the scraps don't fit there, or don't look like something I'd want in the future, bye-bye.
#16
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Somewhere in Time
Posts: 2,697
Periodically, I do go through my stash. Sometimes I put fabric I no longer plan to keep on the free table at Guild and sometimes I either keep it for charity projects or donate it to Guild for charity projects.
#17
Clothes, yes. Things in my sewing room, never, unless it is broken and can't be fixed. I use fabric of all ages. Many rulers I haven't used in years but one day I may want to make a pattern that will require one and they are too expensive to replace.
#18
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
I throw nubs and pens that are dried up. I just don't need to waste time on that. I'm going through some boxes now and getting rid of some things. Already have 2 large bags going to Salvation Army.
#19
Well, I didn't really mean my stash, but more like gadgets that didn't work, sewing notions that belonged to others that I probably won't use! I'm bad about rescuing supplies at EstAte Sales because I can't stand them being tossed. My mother did a different type of sewing so I have all her stuff .. I don't have room for my fabric for all the junk. The plastic boxes for fabric is a great idea, but really takes up room.
I share sewing space with a home office and I have a Pfaff, embroidery machine, a Tiara, rolling cutting table and office furniture that now stores quilting supplies and one large metal storage rack for my boxes and stash that is not in boxes. Then theres the Go and all its dies, a computer, two monitors a printer with stand. I'm so busy moving stuff around so I can sew that I can't sew !
I share sewing space with a home office and I have a Pfaff, embroidery machine, a Tiara, rolling cutting table and office furniture that now stores quilting supplies and one large metal storage rack for my boxes and stash that is not in boxes. Then theres the Go and all its dies, a computer, two monitors a printer with stand. I'm so busy moving stuff around so I can sew that I can't sew !
#20
Well, I didn't really mean my stash, but more like gadgets that didn't work, sewing notions that belonged to others that I probably won't use! I'm bad about rescuing supplies at EstAte Sales because I can't stand them being tossed. My mother did a different type of sewing so I have all her stuff .. I don't have room for my fabric for all the junk. The plastic boxes for fabric is a great idea, but really takes up room.
I share sewing space with a home office and I have a Pfaff, embroidery machine, a Tiara, rolling cutting table and office furniture that now stores quilting supplies and one large metal storage rack for my boxes and stash that is not in boxes. Then theres the Go and all its dies, a computer, two monitors a printer with stand. I'm so busy moving stuff around so I can sew that I can't sew !
I share sewing space with a home office and I have a Pfaff, embroidery machine, a Tiara, rolling cutting table and office furniture that now stores quilting supplies and one large metal storage rack for my boxes and stash that is not in boxes. Then theres the Go and all its dies, a computer, two monitors a printer with stand. I'm so busy moving stuff around so I can sew that I can't sew !
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