Of course I am IN, again. The "shop from your stash first" plan works. I've been at this since pre-COVID and my stash is significantly smaller. Remember that this group does not forbid shopping! I forget this from time to time. It does encourage us to not shop just because we like the fabric or might use it "someday". Stash first, always stash first.
I am to the point that I will need to shop backing regularly because I have very few larger cuts of fabric. Just as encouragement I chose to gift some dear quilting friends with charm packs for Christmas this year. And I am in the process of making a donation quilt for a hospice site with two other charm packs and scraps from my stash. It is an easy way to see my stash of unused treasured put to use rather than gathering dust in the cupboard.
Hint that works for me. I track my fabric in/fabric out. in a small notebook month by month. I am motivated by numbers so for me it works. Each year I shoot to reach a goal of 100 yards out. I count finished quilts, donated quilts, gifts of fabric, donations to other quilters or just anything that gets fabric out of my hands and into the hands of someone who will use it. I haven't totaled my fabric out yet for this year, but I am close to the 100 yard mark. Yay,that makes two years in a row.
Hint for decluttering a sewing space. I start with the floor. It makes the room look so much better when I can walk in and not stumble on unfinished projects or planned projects or patterns or my overflowing UFO basket and on and on.
See you all in this thread and others to check progress and share the joy of reducing our abundance.
