Introduction
10-29-2020, 06:59 AM
#24
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Waterford Michigan
Posts: 7,241
Welcome to the QB from SE Michigan! You are a quilter after my own heart. I too love scrappy quilting and have a huge stash of fabrics that I have collected over more than 30 years. I am working from my stash for most of my quilting now. It is amazing how many fabrics I find that I have no clue why I bought them. This is a fun and educational place to be. I look forward to seeing a whole lot of you here. Jump right in. Again welcome to the QB!
10-29-2020, 08:39 AM
#25
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Virginia
Posts: 229
Moving right along here . . . just began FMQ on my Star Struck quilt yesterday afternoon. I dug through the scrap bin as much as possible to find anything that would fit in this top. I found -- sadly -- what is the very last tiny little piece of one of my favorite fabrics. It only appears in two small HSTs in the quilt but hey, at least it's there and it contributes beautifully to the whole.
10-30-2020, 02:43 AM
#26
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,081
It used to be really hard for me to use up some of those last bits. I felt I had to find the perfect use for them. After collecting many many little bits, I now say "the perfect project is whatever they will work with". I think for a moment about whatever memories I have attached to that fabric and then let it go into the project and out of the stash and into the world (more or less, still a long time from being pieced to quilted). Some pieces of fabric have a lot that go with them, others practically nothing.
I love fabric and textiles of all sorts. I still want more but I'm trying to concentrate on using more than collecting. And sometimes, it really is the last piece. And that's ok...and there they are, contributing to the whole
I love fabric and textiles of all sorts. I still want more but I'm trying to concentrate on using more than collecting. And sometimes, it really is the last piece. And that's ok...and there they are, contributing to the whole
