I also have way too much personal fabric, but I also expect to have another 20 years of quilting; I consider it my Fabric IRA. I bought it while I was working because I knew my husband would object to buying it in retirement. I did stop buying fabric on speculation (not knowing what I would do with it) about 8 or 9 years ago. At that point, I had more than a bolt of a focus fabric that I totally loved and still love, and collected only fabric to go with that for an eventual series of quilts. That collection is complete now, and one of the few additions would be a second focus fabric with the same colors. When I get off the computer, I'll be working on those.
I also have a good deal of donated fabric since I've been making charity quilts for 18 years and people know that and give me fabric, usually scraps. I use it to make between 20 and 63 quilts in any given year.
However, I have a small house and 9X15' sewing room and they are overrun with fabric. I may give some to the local guild to use for charity quilts or find a church group with whom to sew and give fabric.
There is a thing as too much fabric, sadly. Or is that just too little time? Or maybe not enough storage space?
Last edited by cricket_iscute; 07-29-2013 at 09:13 AM.