Originally Posted by llong0233
Originally Posted by prairiequeen
Pat i need to do the same thing,but its really hard when you go in a see such neat fabric lines.My old fabric from the late 90's isn't even in the same class.
Therein lies the rub, eh? To stash or not to stash. When we stash we can end up with fabric that we fell in love with at the moment and had to have but don't use. I'm new to quilting and have a small stash but I don't think I will add to it. After reading what many of you have to say about stashes, I think I'll stop buying for a while. I already have more than I will use in a year (I don't make as many projects as some of you) and I don't want what I have to "old", either emotionally or in reality. Once in a while I go through the stash as see a fabric and I have to ask "Now, Lori, why did you absolutely have to have this fabric?" It's okay but I don't get the "rush" I did when I first saw and bought it. Boy, the psychology of stashing is deep and I'm pretty sure, for me anyway, there's more to it than having fabric. If any of you watch "Hoaders" or "Hoarders: Buried Alive" you know what I mean when I say I don't want to become an fabric hoarder!
I have returned to quilting after a thirty year absence and am building my stash. With the gift of a terrific five shelf unit from my DH on Friday it is all organized and I look at it and see projects. Made some wonderful buys on ebay and some were just because the fabric "called" to me. It will all get used, some not for quilts but for apparel or ornaments, etc. I don't consider myself a hoarder, a pack rat very probably; but as I get older I am trying to clean up what I just had to save so that my son doesn't have to wonder why Mom saved this or that.