You should never feel that you are not a quilter just because you do not have a "stash". The only reason I have a stash is because I frequent auction sales and I also went to a big rummage sale when I was in New York a few yrs ago. My DIL sent everything I bought at that sale to my home. I had 5 huge boxes and 1 1/2 the size of the others. We also purchased flannel sheets at an outlet out there so that I could make quilts. I sewed many and sent to New York that my daughter sold for me. If I have a coupon I go to Joann's or Hobby Lobby. I don't have any particular colors in mind, or patterns but I have a lot of them stashed on my computer just to print out. My youngest is now interested in quilting and when she comes home this weekend we are going to set up a bunch of "kit" projects that she can take back with her and sew. she never plans on using the same pattern so she will need a lot of them. I also got a lot of large cones of thread that my DH bought on an auction sale. I do have Connecting threads pkgs of thread that I bought to use as the thread on the outside of a quilt. Otherwise I use the cones for my squares, etc. I work off the farm, so I save some of my money to buy what I want. I have purchased in May a Singer Sphinx that I had all cleaned up and I bought a FW that I used to make my oldest grandson a small quilt that he helped make along with a matching pillow. I would like to be able to have a long arm but I don't see that in my future, unless I happen to be at an auction sale and it goes cheap. The last one I saw sold for 12,000 on the sale. A grandma purchased it for her granddaughter as she planned to do a lot of quilting. Never heard what happened to her. The one reason I have a lot on hand is because I live 50 miles from Minot and about 120 from Williston as far as fabric buying is concerned. So can't just decide to run to the store to buy some fabric to make a quilt. Sorry for so long winded, but each to his own. To stash or not to staash that is your own perogative.