Hey From Georgia
 

Hey Everybody,
I'm new on here and I'm introducing myself.
I have started sewing about 3 years ago and have collected alot of fabrics. Im trying to destash my collection, but as well as wanting to learn to make new projects. Due to recent events I'm not able to quilt, at the moment, but I still love looking at patterns and creative ideas. Hopefully I can destash and make virtual friends on here! LolHappy quilting everybody!

Welcome aboard! Although I say I'm mostly from Alaska, I was an Army brat and lived in Georgia many years ago... would have been 1966?? I was only 6 or so but I remember the huge cicada hatching.

Currently waving and still staying a safe social distance, behind the plague lines near Seattle. I've been trying to get myself organized and ready to quilt down the backlog of tops I have, but my machine is going back to the shop today -- so I will be joining you in appreciating the work of others for a bit longer :)

Welcome to the QB! You will make many sewing friends here of all ages and skill levels. Many of us love to build or destash our fabrics from time to time. Right now I am trying to get my sister who just started to quilt, to help with some destashing at my house. I have enough fabrics to out live me x3. As far as patterns there is always something going on. So many different quilts are made and the patterns are discussed. Again welcome to the QB.

Welcome from sunny Southern California!

Welcome from Texas. This is a great board & you will find it friendly & encouraging. So glad you joined us here.

Welcome to QB from Texas! If you already have a lot of fabric, you're off to a good start! https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/boy.gif

Welcome to the board from Sunny Florida. I also have a large stash and like you I would like to deplete it. I have been making a lot of scrap quilts but I haven't made a dent in it. Good luck to you and I hope you enjoy this board as much as I do.

Welcome from metro Atlanta

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Wow!! Such a warming welcoming group here! AMAZING! I appreciate all the love here! While I'm in process of destash of fabrics, can anybody give me some resources on how to rid of the scrap pieces, and is there any tutorials on this site?
Again Amazing Ladies, Thank you for such a warm welcoming!

There are many different ways to "get rid of" scrap pieces... you can actually trash them which is hard on many of us. You can use them. You can give or sell them.

I am primarily a scrap quilter, yet I decided a few years ago that I just didn't want to spend my fabric time dealing with little bits. Whatever I wanted this time was not the sizes I had, however I had it organized it wasn't the way it worked for that project. For me, I decided that I simply did not want to store anything smaller than 6.5" x something larger than a square. My theory is I can always cut down but I can't cut up.

So I gave all the small bits away. Some I sent in flat rate postal boxes at my expense -- it's actually good for me to know there is a cost associated with getting rid of the surplus fabric. As a piece of yardage gets smaller than a FQ, I cut a 6.5" strip and put that in my one box of small, throw the rest in a box that goes to a lady that does crumb quilting and when that gets full, it gets mailed. I'm happier with that than throwing it away.

I'm currently helping a friend organize her stash. Tuesdays are our general quilt lady day, Wednesdays have turned into organization days. Tomorrow we are actually going to have to have a talk about why exactly does she save small bits because she has so many yet never actually uses any of them. I'm going to talk about her planned projects and goals and advise her to just get rid of them too. For her, she might want to go through and pull out the vintage bits and pieces but considering the closet sized pile of boxes and bags and other things, in all the years I've known my friend -- she's never actually made things from the leftovers.

You might want to visit us in the Fabric Moratorium thread -- we try to not buy and we try to use what we have.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/quilti...m-t313678.html
PS: You don't need to read through the whole thing (or even join the moratorium), just browse and look at pictures.

One more welcome from the Mitten State. Please wander about the site. There are a number of groups, AKA threads, that focus on making use of fabric that we hand on hand... Fabric Moratorium is one. But there are others. Lots of encouragement to use what is on hand but no condemnation for shopping for more! Sometimes fabric just calls our name, other times we have just what is needed in our stash, so lets put it to work in a project. I dare say we ALL love pictures, so view ours and post yours when you get back to sewing again. So many kind and helpful folks here when you have a question. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Hey hey -- you might want to visit Bonnie Hunter's site on scraps and the ways she uses/organizes them. Warning, you could get lost for days!
https://quiltville.blogspot.com/

Each year starting on Black Friday (Friday after Thanksgiving), Bonnie hosts a Mystery Project -- it's a lot of sewing if you try to keep up with the clues. Can be a good scrap/stash buster but mystery quilts are not for everyone... We've had threads here and they are fun to lurk even if you don't participate. Last year was rough on me... I crashed pretty badly towards the end and had to take some time off of most things. So I'm just now quilting down last year's project -- and I still have the year before to do as well! But here's the thread from last year:
https://www.quiltingboard.com/quilti...k-t312961.html

I'm hoping to use a box of solid fabrics I have this year which is not a standard choice. They just otherwise aren't getting used. Sometimes Bonnie will have something that is clearly a background of some sort or usable for a single piece of fabric, I'd probably use a tiny print to help pick up the solids. LOL, solids will need to be picked up because they are mostly 14 different pieces of very close dark blue, or things like that.

Welcome from northern Arkansas! I see a lot of people making dog and cat beds for the animal shelters using their scraps as filler. I have often thought of doing that, but never did. I used to have a group who took the scraps for such a project, but they have discontinued that.

Welcome from NE Ohio.

Waving hello to you from Sunny FL with one hand. The other hand holds the 4 yards of fabric that jumped in the cart yesterday. De-stashing is a great goal.

Welcome!

Welcome from Michigan!:)