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Jo Mama 07-10-2011 07:19 PM

My stash goes back about 10 years.

scrappy happy 07-10-2011 07:38 PM


Originally Posted by PaperPrincess
Maybe we should have a birthday party for our stash... I think appropriate gifts would be fat quarters, and of course layer cakes!

roflol. cute idea

oldbalt99 07-10-2011 09:48 PM

I started my latest stash in 2005

Phannie1 07-11-2011 09:55 AM

Thanks for sharing your "stash's ages" and stories. I love the stories. My aunt restored old quilts for a while and the importance of the proper age fabrics was what made that so great. I loved knowing most of us can remember when we use and what we sewed with those fabrics. Keep the stories coming. That is what I like about all our postings. Anna

danece 07-11-2011 09:09 PM

I have found fabric from about 1981 when I moved into my current home, yes, I am a fabric hoarder, I a hard time getting rid of any of it, of course I haven't finished organizing it, so who knows

4EVERquilt 07-11-2011 09:11 PM

My stash goes back to about 1987,

misseva 07-13-2011 09:38 AM

Some of mine is from clothing scraps from early 60s.

KyKat 07-13-2011 09:46 AM

*snicker* Anyone, not a quilter, reading this board would think we were druggies, talking about our "stashes". I guess we are addicts in a way. I have some feed sacks in my stash from when my grandparents had a mom-n-pop grocery store and sold chicken feed and had a few chickens themselves. That fabric has to be 50-60 years old. I'll probably never cut it up for quilts.

1screech 07-13-2011 07:25 PM

Sounds like a wonderful quilt. Be sure and post the finished product. My stash is around 5 years old...except for the pieces I have bought at thrift stores and from other quilters.

suzanprincess 07-14-2011 01:12 AM

My actual "acquired for quilting" stash only started about 9 months ago, but someday I will find the many scraps I kept "for making quilts or crafty things" from every sewing project since about 1960. (I know there are some in boxes under the bed in the guest room, some hiding in the garage, some in the back of a high cupboard, some in a box in my Horror Room (aka sewing room, square-dance-petticoats room, storage room and extra closet). And then there are the clothes that shrank while hanging in the closet but their fabrics are too pretty to get rid of; since weight loss is elusive, I guess they are now potential quilts!


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