Some things I just don't want to know, how much I spend/saving receipts might or might not work for me -- but it would be interesting. I know I used to allow myself $20 per week at the thrift stores, which works out to $1k per year and I'm ok with that. Is about what it costs for us as a couple to go bowling once a week and now that husband is on two leagues, I don't want to know what he is spending on his bowling.
When I was doing the shop hop trips I left the fabric out on the couch to show me what I've already gotten. For me it was important to see it spread out, it looks so much less folded up in little shopping bags. Then going ahead and doing my prewashing and the effort that took, along with the time spent with the fabric and it slowing my desires to accumulate more.
I'm pretty well into the Dragon Hoard project now. I will be using at least as much from stash as I bought, and what I bought I will be using up! I made my first set of the quick crazy blocks. Learned a few things -- like 10 (blocks) in a set is too many and I got confused. Not that it really matters, just slowed me down a bit. If I had done it 5 at a time it would have been much easier to keep straight. I like using 10" squares but I think to make the pieces smaller it would be easier to put together smaller blocks with less cuts to make... so I started with 10" squares and 9 cuts, next I will try 8" squares and 5 cuts... nice thing is I can slice and dice the blocks until I get the sizes I want. These won't be wasted, they are just part of the process. I will be using a couple different slicing patterns as well. The alternating blocks themselves will be about 14" by the time I get the sashing around them.
So picture 1 is a first look of what the hoard will look like. Pretty well matching my imagination (other than piece size), but how they blur and blend and compete with each other is going good! Picture 2 is my first set of 10, one of the squares was pieced and is about 1/2" larger than the others, I just left it that way knowing trimming was coming in the future!