Organization!

I'm low on yellows and oranges. I use up the tone on tone whites and off whites fairly fast.
Don't have reproductions - not into them
Thimbleberries, folk type prints - just to muted to appeal to me.
Would like to have more batiks.

I have a small stash so I don't really have much in the yellow, orange, blue, purple, gray family. I have mostly Civil War things and some 30's. I'm begining to acquire more fabric. Its just a slow go, but its growing. My Mom has been sweet and sent me fabric and that's where a lot of my stash came from. I did buy some that had brown, yellow, orange and teal in it. I just haven't cut it up yet. I also need a room for my things. Hopefully soon I'll get a room for it. ;)

I NEED gradating fabrics, in lots of different colors. I have way too many florals!

Funny, I was cleaning my room yesterday and found I had the opposite problem- too many solids and tone-on-tones! I need some big, splashy fabrics! Hmmm...should we work out a trade... :roll:

Run, don't walk, to Connecting Threads. They have a great sale on solids right now. I bought two huge boxes of the stuff and shipping was free! I love the colors and the hand of this fabric.
http://www.connectingthreads.com/fab...lidsMirageSale

I never have enough neutrals or light lights.
Nell

If I had to make a quilt from my stash today it wouldn't have much in the way of solids or tone on tone. Orange is the color I lack - just not my favorite. Where from in IL?

I just placed an order, oh my, I can get in trouble!!!

I never have enough solids.

White fabric for background...I am desperately trying to quilt only from stash...very hard to do!!!!

I am without these same things and also the same as lovingmama--------MONEY

Yep, Money. I agree! ;)

I don't have many linear fabrics, such as stripes,diagonals,plaids. I always like to use at least 1-2 in a quilt, but I have trouble finding them.

Money is the biggrest hold back on a wild buying spree for any fabrics for my quilting stash. Right now, I am concentrating on tracking down old THERMORE batts. Found some at our local shop --- and as the saying goes "it ain't cheap" when you want about as much as they have to it!.

You are so right tho. Grab fabric from the stash, and then begin to realize have no solids, blenders, tone on tone etc left to pull from. SCRAPPY TIME I guess :-)

Julie

I am with you. I have mainly prints. I have enough prints for 30 quilts. I don't have the solids to go with the prints though. It gives me a reason to go to the fabric store and look around.

The white, grey, solids and I am out of tone on tone.

Like you, I found myself without a "solid" foundation in my stash, so after selling a set of cookbooks on eBay, I treated myself to purchase several FQ bundles of solids from Keepsake quilting. They gave me both the "workable" amount of fabric and the gradation I needed across the color spectrum.

The tone-on-tones I have on hand are the white-ivory-cream-VERYLIGHT beige range, with some blacks, reds and greens (think Christmas tones).

I found myself hanging onto fabric types just so I'd have them, and then realized they were no longer that attractive to me any more - so I passed them on through various FQ and scrap swaps, Secret Santa/Secret Sister gifts and Mystery Raffles at my guilds. See my new topic on MYSTERY RAFFLES, which I'll create after I send this out ...

Ditto.

Well, I got this far reading this mornings board, and as she said, run don't walk. Will be getting a large, free shipping, box, so should have some neutrals I was missing.

Don't have your problem. I love the tone on tones, marbled and "blenders" so I have plenty of them. Online stores like Connecting Threads always seem to have a good selection on sale. Check it out.

i have different stashes..i have reproduction and vintage, sale bolts in bland colors, small pieces and FQ for purses and stuff,
a stash of batting, a stash of binding, a stash of fabric I fell in love with..HELP!

That is me too. I have tons of batiks but they aren't appropriate for every kind of quilt. I have no solids (except black) and hardly any tone on tone fabrics. I always (oh darn) have to go to the quilt shop to pick up some when I need them for a project. :oops:

I have a few "blenders" mostly Moda Marbles, blacks and some Kona solids I was given by a friend but I too find buying solids really boring.

A lot of comments have been that you're missing blenders and tone-on-tones... which got me thinking...

Would it be a useful offering, if in our store, we offered bundles of four FQs, blenders in particular colors? Four that all work together and are closely related but different enough that you could use them all in the same project?

Like:
- mid to light pink
- dark pink to fuchsia
- blues leaning toward violet
- true blues
- four good greens the color of leaves
- sandy beiges (white, tan, darker)
- gray fading to black
and of course MANY more combinations. Basically the whole rainbow to pick from , just... in groups of four. So you don't have think to hard, or break the budget.

Do you think there would be a market for this? And does it make a difference to your answer, because we're an online shop?

Hah - must be a BIG box, because I am in it too! For me I think it is more cautious because I am new to this hobby.

I just visited your site and you have such beautiful fabric! I love the Christmas fat quarter bundle that you have! LOVE IT!

I love tone on tones and solids as well as printed stuff. I've picked up things here and there from garage sales and if it's cotton and cheap, then I buy it. So, my stash isn't very big, but it's bigger than I would have gotten just buying fabric for the project I was doing. That being said, I find I have very little purple. I have a TON of medium size prints. Now that I'm branching into some smaller log cabin projects, I find that I really need small prints.

What I have found frustrating in my experience with FQ bundle packs is that some of the prints can be very large. Any way you cut it, you are splicing up the pattern. When I get FQ's, I'm very selective about what size prints they are. Otherwise, if I need FQ's, I just buy them individually, or buy a full yard and make my own.

Thank you. The Fusion colors are delicious.

I could use more $$, as well as more lt. backgrounds. Kona solids, esp. white and black.

Fav. Fabrics- the 4 FQ bundles sound like a great idea!!

I don't have any reproduction or 30's fabric.But they are not something that I am interested in. I don't have much in florals either.

When I started using the Quitville scrappy method by cutting strips I realized I don't have many lights. Tons of stripes,stars & solids but not very many lights at all. Oh boy now I need to go to QS!!! yeah

I am the opposite. I have way too many tone on tone, blenders, solids and not enough interesting fabrics.

I'm missing neutrals and lights....

yep I don't have those either but what I'm missing the most of is ideas. LOL
I have a huge stash but I'm very lacking on the ideas part of using them. Most of my quilts are what you might call "planned quilts". I don't think I have ever made a scrappy one but it's high time I learned how, right? I have pre-cut a bunch of batting so I can try and do a quilt as you go scrappy but they have been sitting there for 6 months because it scares me to get started on a quilt with no idea of what it's going to look like. I know I need to just start.
Anyone have an idea on how I should just get started on this thing?

I found the same thing missing. solids.
when I find myself buying fabric just to appease my addiction, I try to go with a different theme now with each purchase. I also make myself include one or two solids that match my "just gotta have" fabric that I buy.

I love the fusions range for "blenders" and am slowly building up a home collection of them.
As I also make charity quilts for kids I am slowly building up a collection of solids from the homespun ranges for these as well.

On the whole I tend to buy what I need for a project. Will buy a fabric I like if it is cheap enough (with nothing in mind for its use) although have to admit I probably don't buy enough of it so it may not be as cost effective as desired.

Sad to say though at the moment I have a couple of quilts on the go for gifts and being bed size rather than the usual lap sized quilt that I usually make they are proving to be a bit expensive so not much going on in the stash building area :lol: Wish we had coupons like you do over there :( would make it easier.

Maybe1day

Like the rest of most people, solids but red in particular. I do need some reds. Sometimes red is just the color to contrast with the others your using.

fabric, no real stash as of yet

I'm with you. I find that I don't have any solids when I need them. So I have decided to just buy a bunch of various colors so I have them when I need them.