i just returned from a long day of doctor's appointments and I have to say reading this has really cheered me up! You are all too funny! For many years I ran an online quilt shop out of my home, and we had 4000-5000 bolts of fabric in our basement, which was the source for the quilt shop. Now of course when I worked shipping fabric every day, I never had any time for quilting. Now that I have sold the business, I have time for quilting and you can imagine the stash I have accumulated! When the bolts of fabric were here, we would refer to the shop as the "bunker" and we laughed that even if there were a nuclear attack, we would be safe in there because it would never penetrate all that fabric. It was well insulated from temperature, sound and troubles ov the world!
There is nothing wrong with collecting fabric, as long as it brings you joy and pleasure and it is not breaking the bank!
If you seriously want to reduce your stash of some fabrics which may not be appealing to your personal taste at this time, you may want to consider working those pieces into some charity quilts. Right now Haiti is not accepting quilts because of the need to fly in food and medical supplies but think of all those orphans who would love a cuddly quilt. Start sewing!
Also there is a 1 million pillowcase challenge on (Calling all quilters and sewers) to make pillowcases. There are free download pillowcase patterns on the web site for All People Quilt (
http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millio...ses/index.html).
We are collecting pillowcases for Sloane Kettering Hospital in NYC, which is a major cancer center, but if you know of local organizations which will accept your pillowcases, you can stitch them up and take them in to be given to patients. Then add yours to the count. Tonight they show only about 13,000 and that is a far cry from 1 million.
Just a thought. Making quilts for charity makes me feel as if my stash is there for a great purpose, and it's not just wasting space and money.