Adding to stash.....
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Adding to stash.....
Hubby and I will be going on vacation next week and we will be traveling through several states. I have a few quilt stores marked on my list that I want to visit...my question is...how do you keep from buying material that is already in your stash? I have a habit of falling in love with material all over again when I am in a new shop,lol. Thanks for any ideas.
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thank you! I thought of the pictures but my camera is on the blitz and I can't see my phone pics well enough. I will cut off a corner of the fabric and use those small ziplock bags and group them by color. If I have any doubt about the material I can check.
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I'd attach them to index cards, punch a hole in the cards and slip them onto one of those rings that open and close. Might be easier than rummaging through all those bits and pieces in a baggie. I also saw a suggestion to slip them into the pockets of small photo albums. That would make them easy to carry and easy to thumb through.
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Before my stash got out of hand, I would take a small strip and glue it to a piece of ruled paper on each line. I then put the amount of yardage for that piece next to it. It was nice, because as I looked at patterns at night in front of the TV, if I saw a quilt I wanted to make, I looked at the strips to see if I had anything I could use for that quilt, if there was enough, and if I had anything to coordinate with it. I tried to keep the colors sorted before I glued them on, at first.
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I make a mental inventory of what I want to look for before I go. When I go in a couple of weeks I want to look for a set of fat quarters - maybe 28 - 40 of them to make a quilt. Do I need lights, etc. I haven't run into the problem of buying fabric I already have. I have a tendency to buy what I can't get in my area.
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There is a smartphone app called Fabric Stash that allows you to take a couple of pics of each piece of your fabric, list how much you have, where you bought, even a part for the pattern you are using whichever fabrics in and your thread and notions. I love it because I don't have to cut my fabric and worry about keeping up with my cards. Wasn't more that $4-5 and I love it!!
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oh, thank you! I like the thought of the small photo album. that would be super easy.
I'd attach them to index cards, punch a hole in the cards and slip them onto one of those rings that open and close. Might be easier than rummaging through all those bits and pieces in a baggie. I also saw a suggestion to slip them into the pockets of small photo albums. That would make them easy to carry and easy to thumb through.
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