I had someone donate a bunch of these to me--and I've been using them up (calicos from a while ago). Yes, they are dated, but in the pattern I made (Trip around the world), they work fine!

I think the key to a piece of fabric that we don't like is then to work with the color and value and use it that way. Keep cutting it up smaller and smaller until the color is what matters and not the actual design on the fabric.

I love my stash, I want time to sew it up, LOL

I can shorten it up even more, PIP....Pigs Inna Poke.

My kind of thinking! LOL

Fabric has no expiration date. I've had a yard and a half of fabric I had no clue if I would ever use -- anytime I tried to put it in a project it just didn't work -- until yesterday! Now it will be used in a denim cathedral window quilt. The few inches I have left over will be cut into strips for my string quilt box. When you have fabric you don't know if you will use, do what makes you happy. If you feel less pressure on yourself by giving it away then do it. If you can put it in your stash for another day then that is great too.

I have donated fabric to the Iowa State fair for their quilting project during the fair, That way I have gotten a lot of fabric out of my stash and it went to a good cause!!!

Thanks for asking that question. I was wondering what it meant, and I didn't want to leave the thread to look it up on that one place where they explain ....

No, never, not ever. Fabric is beautiful, comforting, adorable, life sustaining, like my own child; I might have gone a bit overboard on that, right?

pizzles - LOVE that! I'm going to add that to my ever-expanding use of acronyms!

swaparama - what in the world is that and how have I lived without being involved in one of these?!

Okay, now my PIGS are separated out from my UFOs. I'll stew on the fabrics for awhile.

I don't think I've ever heard of PIGs before, however, your definition was given later on. I suppose I could use PIPs for Projects in plastic bags, as I was spending more time trying to find a specific pattern or fabric for that pattern that I eventually found these very large zip lock bags at the grocery store. Now, when I'm trying to organize myself (something I do almost all the time) when I come across a pattern I want to make, I put the pattern/magazine in the large zip lock bag with the fabric to make the project, that way, whenever I actually get around to making that UFO or PIP, everything is ready to go and I wind up feeling less stressed out. I try to get organized, but it's not easy.