I don't near ways have a stash like most of you on this board. I usually only buy fabric when needed for special projects or if I see fabric at auctions or yard sales, I do try to get it! Fun looking through it all! Maybe someday I will just buy the fabric for the heck of it, but doubt it!

Why don't any of you live next door to me. I only have 4 or 5 bins left from moving and destashing. I feel so impoverished. Down to only three sewing machines now and a good percentage of the rulers ever made. Hmmm, maybe I'll go sew now. There's still lots of good stuff in there.

I'm starting to use thosse pieces I just haven't used in charity quilts.
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I de-stashed 1/2 of my stash last summer. Now I have some breathing room.It also got my creative juices flowing again. :thumbup:

I de-stash on a regular basis as I am not much of a hoarder. I understand what you mean. I feel like it is shameful for me to have so much and others to have nothing so I try to get it into hands that will create with it and make something useful and useable.

I guarantee that if you make the decision to get rid of the stuff that you are not using, you will not miss it. I recently went through my collection and removed anything that I wasn't totally in love with and planning to use. I took huge clear heavy bags of fabric (think poly/cotton. gingham, dheap or sleezy cottons) to the Mennonite Relef Centre who manage to recycle all sorts of things. The lids fit on all my bins now and my drawers close. Will I miss this stuff? Absolutely not! I'll probably do it again this fall or winter. Quilters change their likes and styles of quilting and fabric that doesn't match your current way of stitching should go to a new home. We routinely give away clothing that we no longer wear, so why not do the same with fabric? Yes we may have purchased it but we have "outgrown" it, so give it away. No worries, no guilt and move on to buy and create for the new you.

Remember the one who dies with the most WINS!!! and I want to win.

I hope I never use all of it! And yes, I still buy more with great intentions. I just made 4 baby quilt tops for each of my nieces out of my stash. It came in handy. Now if I can get the finished befor the end of July. All 4 of my nieces are due the end of July through the end of August. Wheww - lots of work.

I don't have a large stash. it all fits into a corner of my china hutch probably have less than one of the grocery bags that you take with you. If I see something that screams at me that it needs to be in a quilt for a certain person I then collect it for their quilt. I am a new quilter and this probably is how a hording "stash" starts but I will only have four quilts in the planning stage at one time. It is not offal to want to destash, it is only offal if you just toss in the trash. I would weed out your stash those pieces that you are not totally in love with and sell them on here to those who could use a good deal. but that is just me.

I buy fabric for quilt projects and I buy fabric for my stash, some I will use and some I just cant seem to part with even though the quilt will stay at my house. funny how we quilters are.