I'm like rainy day. I have been knitting and sewing for many many years. I have a knitting machine (now packed away) and probably 30 large cones of yarn, not to mention about 6 bins of hand knitting yarn, which I have been using to knit for Children's Hospital. I have shelves & shelves of apparel fabric from when grandchildren were little and planned on clothes for them; they didn't like my choices, of course. I also have bolts of leftover fabric from making draperies for people; they give me the leftovers. Now I have that new disease, "quilting fever". I do try to use something from my stash whenever I am tempted to buy new fabric. Luckily I have a large basement sewing room with lots of storage, but am finding overflow. My family and friends now know to check with me before they buy fabric for something; we usually can find it in "Grannies store".