Fabric Hoarder Confession!!
07-29-2013, 10:56 AM
#72
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 3,955
I just finished sorting and placing on boards my stash. I then sorted by Color and holiday/batiks. It all fits on one book case. Small but still shocked by the amount. Really trying to shop it first. Next sort is all those magazines. Now that's another story!
07-29-2013, 01:58 PM
#75
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Northern Indiana
Posts: 2,680
My fabric stash doesn't even begin to come close to what some of the other members have. But after getting the 80 FQs from KQ a couple of weeks ago, decided I needed to do something with all the bits and pieces left from previous FQs. before I could even put the new ones away. May regret it, but am trying to cut up each piece into 10" sqs, 6 1/2" sqs, and from 1" to 2 1/2" strips. If there's any thing left after that, it will get tossed into a scrap box that I'll give to another quilter. And since I only make scrap quilts, I should have plenty for a while. Oh, and all this cutting doesn't include my new fqs or my several fq collections, or the couple dozen fqs that I've found in various places.
07-29-2013, 02:50 PM
#76
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 175
I too have too much fabric but still buy more when we go on a shop hop. I have been putting some in the garage sale and donating some to charity. Still will not have all sewed by the time I am called to leave this planet
07-29-2013, 03:40 PM
#77
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: washington
Posts: 1,424
I started the same way nhweaver...and recently looked around and decided not to hit the yard sales and thrift stores any more just for fabric. Have to admit though I found a lovely piece of fabric at the store. Got 3 yds. giggle....
Originally Posted by nhweaver
Confessional time ........
I have decided today, that I am a fabric Hoarder - and I am going to stop!!!! I will never in many lifetimes complete all the projects that I have hidden in totes, drawers, closets, attics, trunk of car. My goal for this fall and winter, is take all the fabric that I will never use (you know the kind, the stuff from yard sales, auctions, thrift stores,etc) and donate it. When I was first starting to hoard and quilt, I hunted down fabric - not project specific, just fabric, lots of it. Not the best quality, in colors that I do not like any longer. Even if I remove 50-100 yards of fabric, I still will not have enough years left to make the projects that are left. Seriously, am I the only one who realizes that "enough is enough'?
I have decided today, that I am a fabric Hoarder - and I am going to stop!!!! I will never in many lifetimes complete all the projects that I have hidden in totes, drawers, closets, attics, trunk of car. My goal for this fall and winter, is take all the fabric that I will never use (you know the kind, the stuff from yard sales, auctions, thrift stores,etc) and donate it. When I was first starting to hoard and quilt, I hunted down fabric - not project specific, just fabric, lots of it. Not the best quality, in colors that I do not like any longer. Even if I remove 50-100 yards of fabric, I still will not have enough years left to make the projects that are left. Seriously, am I the only one who realizes that "enough is enough'?
07-29-2013, 04:37 PM
#78
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
Posts: 70
I am with you on this one. I belong to a group that makes simple tied quilts for the needy. I have started cutting my fabric into squares for this group. I believe I will start with the fqs that I have from swaps that usually had a theme. I also have finally realized there is no way I am going to use these in one life time.
07-29-2013, 05:37 PM
#80
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Rapid City, SD
Posts: 4,961
I'm with the many of the rest of you- haven't purchased much fabric this year . Basically have only purchased to complete a specific project. My granddaughter just picked out fabric to make a professional tote - all from my stash so it saved me about $50.00 by not having to buy fabric. I did have to buy the stabilizer. She will be coming over tomorrow to start her project. I do have a bunch of magazines with good scrap quilts. Once the weed spraying is done and the haying is finished I can get back to quilting more. Good luck to all of us getting our stashes reduced!
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