Originally Posted by catsnchina

All the replies above are well put and tricks I also use! I love shopping my stash which is huge. Both DH and I are retired and living on less.

Once I shop my stash, not only do I surprise myself by finding beautiful fabric I had forgotten about, but I also come up with lots of ideas for fabric combinations.

I also use large batting scraps by zig zagging the pieces together to make one batting. I find the new batting iron on tape doesn't hold the pieces seams on batting as well as I would like.

I love to shop on line, put everything I like in the cart or on the design board and then delete the cart once the shopping is out of my system.

The kitties loves to help me sort thru stash so that gives us good 1-1 time together.