How much fabric do you have in your stash?

Do you have it all organized by colors, sizes etc.

Do you save your scraps?

I don't have very much fabric right now but trying to build up my stash.

I have been blessed with friends giving me some scraps. I am making paper pieced scrappy quilt. Also practicing on making blocks!

My husband has been unemployed since July 2009 so things have been rough for us. He just got a job so will be nice to have $ and Health Insurance again.

I'm not quite sure how many total yards of fabric I have. I moved in September, and it's still in boxes. I know I have at least 150 yards. It's not sorted by color, but I do have the holiday stuff together and the batiks together. Also, if I had a quilt planned, those fabrics are bagged together with the pattern.

Wow, you have lots of fabric!

Oh Karen, I am so glad hubby got a job, as for my stach I think I am close to have enough to make a queen size quilt, and that is because the wonderful ladies on the board have sent me some so I could learn to quilt. I hope all goes well. Penny

According to my husband.....to d@#%^ much. Let's just say I know I could make several quilts (king size probably) if I just had batting. LOL.

Just enough to annoy my husband and make me happy!

Let's see......6 totes and 3 of those plastic drawers on wheels full......lol!

TONS!!! organized? I try...have shelves, drawers, closets, totes...yes, I save scraps, I also share 100's of pounds of scraps...i keep a basket and 2 boxes under my cutting table, (right next to a trash bag) when i am cutting strips less than 1" wide go into the basket (for me to use for wrapped-clothesline projects, or rug hooking) one box i toss scraps into that i think are big enough or fabric that i will put to use for applique, the other one i toss in the stuff i think whom ever i am sharing with this time will like receiving. and anything too fray'd or too small actually goes into the trash bag.

Too much to figure out (because it's in 3 different rooms), it's very loosely organized (and I emphasize loosely), and I have a hard time throwing away any but the tiniest scraps. I hear about putting the scraps in a pillow case and making beds for the animal shelter, so pretty much save everything. I finally saw a selvege quilt, so now I might have to start saving them, too.

Not as much as some, but enough to have DH shake his head!!!

My husband has been unemployed since July 2009 so things have been rough for us. He just got a job so will be nice to have $ and Health Insurance again.[/quote]

Glad to hear that your DH has found something!!! Hopefully, life will be much easier now!! :-D Congrats!!

I have 17 large plastic storage bins full. Plus bolts of fabric for backing, large garbage bag full of polyester batting (I just doesn't seem to go down :roll: ), plus bags of warm & natural/white.

DH is wondering why I still buy fabric!! States, "Are you telling me that you don't have something in all those containers that you can use!" Oh well, here comes #18. He'll never understand!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

ALOT!!! But can you ever have "enough" fabric? Mine is NOT organized enough! I have holidays, 30's, civil war, red/white & blue/white, etc in totes ready to put on shelves if I can ever get the energy to "organize" my sewing studio! Other than that, fabrics are in other totes, drawer units, bags, etc. I do save my scraps for "someday" projects or to share. Right now I'm trying to build up my 30's stash and add to my civil war stash.

Mary B MS

LOL more than i will ever use in this lifetime, but i am trying :) I save scraps too

Too much, according to my husband. LOL I have 7 of the pattern cabinets from fabric stores, all full of fabrics, folded, sorted by background colors. I also have 24 of the big plastic totes, 55 qt., and larger, all full of fabrics, non cottons, sorted by type of fabrics, such as fleece, etc. and about 6 of the big black garbage bags full of scraps. I've found some help in making scrappy quilts and we're going to donate to the local fire department and the local senior nursing home.

I'm going to send my DH to your house to take a peeky!! Maybe then he would understand! :lol:

Lots, but not enough. I sort by colour, unless something is very theme specific (I have a farming pile and a music pile, two of my loves, and of course a Christmas pile)

I would say, just in a rough estimate, that I have between 130 and 150 yards. When I started buying two yards of any one thing, I put them in a group by themselves. The older stuff is organized by catagories, Christmas, Halloween, dogs, etc.

I do save scraps but I don't keep anything under 2 inches. I am sure I would never use it.

According to DH....just enough to make me happy... :lol:

I probably have around a thousand yards of fabric. I actually counted how many yards were in my cupboard when I moved time before last. That was almost 5 years ago and I have probably more than doubled it since then. I've used a lot since then too but it seems to come in faster than it goes out.

I have mine sorted by length of the cut.

I had one of those three drawer carts crammed full of scraps. I moved most of it into a single giant drawer in my new cutting center. It's not really new new, it's an ancient metal dresser I'm putting a top on to hold a cutting mat.

I have sooo much fabric I could open up a store!!! It is all in bins sorted by color and or theme on a shelf along with everything else that goes along with it. I have two big boxes just with scaps for applique. I have two big bins filled with velvet. and not to mention roll bolts of upolstry (sp) fabric. leather you name it. I'm addicted

Oh I forgot to mention my craft room!! Now that's another story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That sounds like my sister. She has so much that sometimes I go "shopping" at her house. Convenient too. She's right next door.

(How are things in Attleboro?)

Not bad I'm at work and suppose to be working. Just can't get enough of the quilting gossip! Weather is so nice here 80 today spring spring spring HEY Who about you?

Enough fabric to fill metal shelves six feet tall and four feet wide. Here's one corner, along with "Mr. Helpful"!

I'm not telling.

Congratulations!!! So many are out of work, it's scary. Having been unemployed, or under-employed in the past, I think my stash building is a defense mechanism. That, and being a very organized pack rat! It's like a squirrel storing nuts for the winter.

Well I was lucky enough to get some from http://freecycle.org in my area...so if we're counting in plastic tubs I have:

12 tubs of fabric separated by colors.

And I'm almost done with my scrappy quilt, hope to get the top done this weekend. :)

Not nearly enough. I am working on building my stash up. Right now I have enough do a few scrappies! I am getting married in July and can't wait until after to really start buying fabric :)

An online quilt store liquidated last year, and I was fortunate that she happened to be essentially in my back yard. I was able to go through things in person and ended up with quilt store quality fabrics for prices lower than Joann's.

Good question! I have no idea...a lot! I am trying to use it all up before my time on earth is through, but I keep buying more :lol: My hubby never complains about it and is always interested to see what I get in the mail! He cheers me on with my projects....I am one lucky lady. :wink:
I do save scraps, but I haven't taken the time to sort any of them. That can wait till I decide to do a scrap quilt!!

Ditter

Do we ever have enough fabric? I have lots that is organized by color or theme and then there is the newer stuff. Getting involved with the Linus Project has given me an excuse to buy a lot of kid related stuff and then there is the fabric for soldiers quilts and then the pillowcase project etc. etc. etc. I have two large tubs full of backing yardage as I am a handquilter for hire. My customer base seems to have dried up but I have the fabric if and when it comes back. I rarely save pieces smaller than fat quarters. I do have a box of left over binding. I always make to much.

I got to the point I didn't know what I had my folded fabric was so jumbled up. I'm in the process of refolding all my fabric. I knew just refolding it wouldn't work for long term. I'd make another mess out of it when I pulled a piece from the bottom. I am using fabric boards and it makes a big difference! I can't decide if I want to shelf it by color or by value. I'm thinking value. I'll post a pic when I'm done.

I have no idea how much fabric I have. I have alot of garment fabric, but just started collecting quilting fabric about 3 years ago. I used to buy 5 yards each of garment fabric and have been buying quilting fabric in one yard increments but have realized I need to up that to 2-3 yards at a time. I never buy with a project in mind, just what ever strikes my fancy. :roll: I guess that's okay tho since I like scrappy quilts.

If I took two 1.5 yd slices of fabric and put batting between them and quilted and put binding on, I would not run out of fabric before I die.
YTQ

Sounds like me!

Then I guess you're going to be around for a long time!!! :-D :-D

I'm guesstimating close to 500 yards....
I keep two drawers, sorted by color, each drawer has apx. 120 yards. The fabric cabinet currently has about 200 yards. The cutting table has 12 drawers, many of which hold fabric for specific projects, so likely totals another 30 yards, and my other cabinet has boxes of "scraps" which total the remainder.

My DH still encourages me to buy more! I'm the one putting the brakes on!

Six years ago, I moved all of my sewing stuff into a spare bedroom and it became my quilt studio. It meant I had to move all of my stash from closets and under beds to one place. When I finished moving in, my husband looked at the 2 - 6'X4" bookshelves with my stash neatly pilled on the shelves and said: "wow, you must have at least $300-$400 worth of fabric in there!!" Oh if he only knew how to value fabric....I'd say the worth is more like $3000-$4000. I tried, successfully, not to laugh knowing in my heart that if the house burned down, that lowly closet full of fabric was the most valuable thing in the house we owned! I have, however, been scaling back my fabric shopping lately to use some of it up.

I don't know and would be afraid to count. I think it would scare me. :P

It's a lot but for some reason I never have just the right color for a project and need to buy more. I also travel a lot in my job so visit shops all over the place and always come back with more. I manage to keep myself out of the LQS most of the time these days, so if I could only stop checking out the ones where I travel, I might make a dent in the stash!

I have 4 base cabinets, 4 upper wall cabinets, a double wardrobe, and a counter full. It's obscene. Most is sorted by color and in the clear storage boxes and I have a tall bin for scraps.