How old is your stash?
10-22-2009, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Dawn Hendrix
I have fabric from when my grandmother made me dresses. I will be 40 in a few days... I try to put a little piece of it on my quilts.. even if it is in the label .. she is the one who taught me to sew.
10-22-2009, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by oksewglad
Originally Posted by Dawn Hendrix
I have fabric from when my grandmother made me dresses. I will be 40 in a few days... I try to put a little piece of it on my quilts.. even if it is in the label .. she is the one who taught me to sew.
10-22-2009, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by crkathleen
I still have pieces from when I first started quilting about 9 years ago. It's all inferior quality so I don't use it. Not sure why I keep it in my stash. haha
I also still have some decorator's fabric that I bought and made my first big quilt (king) for my mother. I washed it before I gave it to her and then promptly had to sew it back together!
I'm self taught, the hard way! :lol:
I also still have some decorator's fabric that I bought and made my first big quilt (king) for my mother. I washed it before I gave it to her and then promptly had to sew it back together!
I'm self taught, the hard way! :lol:
Oh and my stash really started in the early 80's but have some fabrics from my HS days as well.
10-22-2009, 01:59 PM
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Thanks for the idea Up North. Just so long as I don't forget where I put the pieces I've saved :roll: I have 4 gr daughters now and the oldest wants to teach me how to sew already. :lol:
10-22-2009, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by oksewglad
Thanks for the idea Up North. Just so long as I don't forget where I put the pieces I've saved :roll: I have 4 gr daughters now and the oldest wants to teach me how to sew already. :lol:
10-22-2009, 03:04 PM
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I have material that I bought in the early 70's. But when my surrogate mother died, I inherited quite a stash, 2 1/2 car garage from floor to ceiling like library shelves and everything catagorized. Gave a lot of it but there is some beautiful linens, silks, cottons, etc that I know have to have been when her daughter was young and her daughter is now 80 yrs old. And it is still good. I have been making some baby quilts with this fabric as alegacy from her to the new babies.
10-22-2009, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by oksewglad
Originally Posted by crkathleen
I still have pieces from when I first started quilting about 9 years ago. It's all inferior quality so I don't use it. Not sure why I keep it in my stash. haha
I also still have some decorator's fabric that I bought and made my first big quilt (king) for my mother. I washed it before I gave it to her and then promptly had to sew it back together!
I'm self taught, the hard way! :lol:
I also still have some decorator's fabric that I bought and made my first big quilt (king) for my mother. I washed it before I gave it to her and then promptly had to sew it back together!
I'm self taught, the hard way! :lol:
Oh and my stash really started in the early 80's but have some fabrics from my HS days as well.
10-22-2009, 04:11 PM
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I have fabric that is 55+ years old. It was from of my dresses when I was small. I started quilting in 1989 and I still have some of that fabric. I think there is some that is more than 20 years old also that my Mom gave me.
10-22-2009, 04:38 PM
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Alot of my fabric is from sales. Some of it is probably pretty old. Some of you will see on here soon. Im trying to get rid of some of it. I have way too much and am trying to make extra money to go toward plane ticket for my son to come home from Korea for awhile.
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