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When buying fabric just for your stash, simply because you love it, how much yardage do you normally buy? I hate having too much just laying around but don't want to run short either. I normally only make baby quilts and throws. I am a serial hobbist so I have stained glass stashes, paper stashes, jewelry and bead stashes, etc, etc!
I also make mostly throws now. I think 2-3 yrds. of a main fabric & 1 yd. each of coordinating fabrics should be enough. If the price is good enough, I get 3 yrds. for backing. Most of my backs are pieced from leftover fabrics from the quilt top.
I usually buy 5-6 yards, especially if I really like it or a color, print that I will be using alot. I will have to live another two hundred years to use it all up.
Another Phyllis
This life is the only one you get - enjoy it before you lose it.
I could NOT afford to buy in such quantity. I usually buy no more than 1.5 yard and mostly .25 or .5 yard cuts for my stash. I AM always running short but that makes me come up with a alternative ending.
A Good Friend, like an old quilt, is both a Treasure and a Comfort
Such a hard question to answer! I guess if I find a solid that is great quality at a great price, I would buy enough for a backing...if it was a primary color like black or white I would try to buy as much as I could afford. Buying prints is different as it has to be either a primary print fabric and everything will work with it....or it is a blender to work well with others....a primary print I would buy enough for 1 quilt and that may be 2/3 yards....a blender print will be as much as I can afford, as it will work into many different types of quilts. With all my fabrics/projects, I now do not save the small pieces. I cut everything that is less than 1/2 yard down....starting with 10" squares and going down to 2.5" strips. I end up with the start of great scrappy quilts or usable yardage. It takes the worrying about how much out of the equation....buy what you can afford.
My niece has always said my hobby isn't DOING crafts, it's BUYING craft supplies! I have the same stashes as you. If you like it get a yard if you love it, get 3 if you want to marry it, buy the bolt. That's how I get into trouble!
"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to."
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Words to live by!Originally Posted by PaperPrincess
People who start projects and never finish them are cooler
than people who never start projects at all.
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guess that makes me married to my yellow with the tiny butterflies and bubbles !
i like to buy about 3 yards of a fabric that I really like. if it's something i'd use for landscaping or appliques, i may only buy a half yard. i don't buy much yardage anymore as i'm more into scrappy and have plenty of stash for backings, etc.
Nancy in western NY
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I usually by bolts of neutrals and blenders. I buy at least five yards of fabric I like. I have a big enough stash I only have to buy focus fabric to make most patterns. I buy a lot of precuts.
I love my life!
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