Originally Posted by
JJBlaine
Count me in, too! This is one of my favorite threads. I love seeing all the projects members are working on by shopping their stash, and it has been a great source of inspiration to do the same myself.
In conjunction with the moratorium, I've been working on getting the UFO pile knocked out, trimming down scraps into precuts for my scrappies, and getting rid of any fabrics I will likely never use. My long-term goal is to get both my stash and UFOs down to a single bookshelf, and my precuts into a set of Ikea drawers I have, so I need all the encouragement I can get!
Having a dedicated and restricted fabric storage unit is a good idea, I think. I bought a Billy bookcase, complete with doors, from IKEA about two years ago and my goal is to reduce all fabric to what will fit in it, including space for some tools and books, patterns, etc. (currently on the bottom shelf). I've folded my stash on comic book boards and it is arranged like books on a shelf. I have a couple of bolts of fabric which are stored lengthwise on another shelf. I'm a sucker for fat quarters and I have far too many, some of which I bought simply because I loved the pattern; those are in containers on yet another shelf. And I have some "kits" in soft plastic zip bags on another shelf. My scraps are in plastic containers on the top shelf. Batting is in rolls and/or containers on the top of the bookcase.
So, I'm mostly there already except for some fabric given to me by the family of a former quilter, and a bag of worn jeans, which I love but may never use, both of which won't fit in the Billy bookcase. I may re-donate the fabric given to me, and the jeans, as well.