Thank you, Gemm, for leading us in another moratorium! Over the last year, I have given away a tremendous number of the stash 'kits' I was cutting over a period of about 5 years, and many finished tops (to a friend who distributes them to several quilting groups for finishing). I had, at the time, a mania to organize my stash into quilts, and also a subconscious sense that I would be slowing down in what I could achieve.
As I recently (and finally) decided to send quilts out for quilting (conceding that a quilt finished by someone else was better than a quilt never finished at all), it gave me a new perspective on what i liked well enough to turn into a quilt, when that represented a significant monetary investment. In giving so many kits and tops away, I've also realized I'm not nearly as emotionally invested in the quilts I put together from stash so as to use up stash, as I am in the quilts that start with an inspiration (other than using up stash). As time to time I go through the pictures of the work I've done, I'll realize -- 'I'm never going to finish that' (then it is put aside for my friend, who thinks I'm generous in what I give, while i think she's generous in what she's willing to take, LOL).
I did not do so well last year in resisting fabric, but Iceblossom shared a stash-limiting rule she follows that has really inspired me -- must immediately wash and fold every piece of fabric entering the house, rather than just dumping it somewhere to be dealt with later. This serves to bring fabric from the fantasy realm and into the factual universe where it demands an immediate investment of time and energy. Thank you, Iceblossom!