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12-18-2013, 03:53 AM

#31

QuiltnNan

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Join Date: Mar 2011

Location: western NY formerly MN, FL, NC, SC

Posts: 51,433

there are two reasons that my stash is large. one... i want to have choices available when i choose my project. two... the fabrics were all purchased on sale... i love a sale.

12-18-2013, 04:11 AM

#32

Scrappy Gram

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Join Date: Aug 2011

Posts: 128

I'm purchasing fabric now while I'm working. Might not be able to afford it when I retire.

Shelves full of fabric along my sewing room walls help to insulate it!

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12-18-2013, 04:12 AM

#33

momsobon

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Join Date: Oct 2012

Location: Central NJ

Posts: 117

Can't help it, the fabric just multiplies like rabbits.....hubby was just ragging that I have bins on both sides of the basement now.....well one side I have fabric the other yarn...can't have enough projects going at one....

12-18-2013, 04:29 AM

#34

katydidkg

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Join Date: May 2011

Posts: 417

I live in the Northeast and it's freezing here, snow, snow, and more snow. I'll admit I have a large fabric stash. It's insulation for my sewing room ! lol

12-18-2013, 04:33 AM

#35

davis2se

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Join Date: Jan 2009

Location: Lincoln. MI

Posts: 491

I finally, this year, started using some of my Christmas fabrics. Made 48 paper pieced, Christmas hot pads, a bunch of trivets, 8 Christmas table runners, and am working on a few aprons. But it seems like my Christmas fabric bins are even MORE full than when I started.

12-18-2013, 04:39 AM

#36

purplefiend

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Join Date: May 2010

Location: Round Rock,Texas

Posts: 6,135

Non-quilters would call us hoarders. We're artists and fabric is our "paint".
SharonW in Texas

12-18-2013, 04:49 AM

#37

SueSew

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Join Date: Jan 2011

Location: Nawth o' Boston

Posts: 1,879

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarolynMT

Well as someone who just finally found a job this past year after being out of work for 4 yrs. I can say a stash comes in handy when you are no longer flush with cash to buy new fabrics

Carolyn I am glad you found work - the economy in New England has been in the tank for years.

What you said also resonated with me because I think that whether quilting is a hobby or a business, you need to keep some kind of inventory so you have materials on hand.

If someone just wanted to make one quilt, then great, buy the fabric and use it and be done with it, but this is an ongoing activity and I don't think it is economical to approach it as if it is a one-off.

12-18-2013, 04:57 AM

#38

petpainter

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Join Date: Mar 2010

Location: Palm Bay, Florida

Posts: 696

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rodney

I've just started quilting. So far I've only bought new fabric for the quilt I'm working on now. I've also bought used flannel shirts for my next quilt and if I see a fabric I like in the thrift store I'll pick it up for future projects. So far the daughter has claimed most of them. I also want to build a small inventory of different threads and other sewing essentials so I don't need to buy a bunch of stuff for every project. It doesn't hurt to keep an inventory of fabrics or other supplies you know you're likely to use on hand.
Rodney

I, too have started quilting fairly recently( due to medical reasons I now have the time). I have put together some "kits" of my own, but when I take a class at the guild, they say "oh just use fabric from your stash". That's when I really wish I had a stash! The girls I usually sew with all feel the same way, you have to love and caress that fabric and save it for something just right. I just lost a good friend in her 50's with a Huge stash...her Husband still hasn't decided what to do with it. That's when it makes you think about how much you have, but you can't live your life with that looming over your head. As long as the bills are paid and your kids/partner aren't ignored...whatever makes you happy!

12-18-2013, 05:00 AM

#39

KwiltyKahy

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Join Date: Jul 2010

Location: Jeffersonville, In

Posts: 2,621

Collectors!!!!! Some people collect coins,some collect stamps, we collect fabric and we can do something with it.

12-18-2013, 05:14 AM

#40

grannie cheechee

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Join Date: Nov 2009

Location: jacksonville bch

Posts: 2,065

Hoarders don't give things away. They collect things thinking they will make something, but never do. According to the shows on television it seems with the hoarders there is always old food, pizza boxes, and other types of garbage laying on top of their collection. We fabric buyers I'm sure we wouldn't do that!!! We are a giving group so we are just collectors.