How nice to get the thread started again! Thanks Gemm for trying to keep us on track.
I feel more and more like an enabler but I am still trying really hard to reduce my stash. But my therapist says to be kind to myself and others so... into each life some fabric must fall. It's ok, we are still good people! That said, I am clear in my thinking that I have plenty of space for storage and more than enough fabric -- the problem is that I still have more than enough fabric for the space. Simple solution is to take more out of stash than I buy so here I am.
With my moving and year of limited vision, I lost a lot of mojo
Sometimes I question the why am I quilting but then it comes back, because I want to! Before I always had more projects than time and was mentally planned ahead years in advance of I want to do this or that, and make room for unexpected marriages or whatever celebration or comfort objects needed. But my well dried up and it still needs to be refilled. Is a work in process, but it feels good to have a bit of the joy coming back instead of sullen indifference.
I know that I have certain collections of fabrics I want to work with. Some because I have more of whatever it is than fits in the tote. I know that I have some artistic things I want to explore. I seem to be going through another period of using dark as neutral. I went for a few years (long ago now - 20-30 years? worth a re-visit) that I called my Almost-Amish period. Before the vision loss I had a series of Civil War fabric type projects in mind, need to look at those ideas again, they fell to the bottom of the list but I have sooo much fabric! Plus, I bought more lights to use with the darks and I don't really love it, but it will be easy to work with and then give away...