omak

You can do the same thing with a cereal box and a good craft knife. <wave>

craftybear

Hey,

That is good idea, Will have hubby to start saving cereal boxes.
Thanks for the idea.

Karen

omak

<g> or laundry boxes or any number of boxes that are big enough to stand on their own and hold magazines. <wave>

Barbm

after reading this I realize I am not a hoarder but I have a lot of fabric and it's time to let some go. I have boxes to mail to my 2 DDs- I use fabric as "bubble wrap". They will love it- they are both new to sewing and don't have a lot of stash.

And I guess I will take the 4 bags of clothes to Salvation Army tomorrow- then I won't be "hoarderlike" in my formal living room. :)

Kathy927

I have a lot of fabric, but it wouldn't fill a trailer. My sewing room is about 13x14 feet. I have shelves on one wall that are 8 feet long and they are floor to ceiling. 5 of the shelves are fabric, folded and oraganized by color. The other 3 shelves are bins with projects and scraps sorted by color.

I also have a cd rack that I just added that holds fat quarter bundles that I am just not quite able to dismantle yet.

I have no room for anymore fabric in my room!! I am full. But I am happy with it all.

I make only king sized quilts now, for the most part. I do finish things. My goal is to complete three a year.

tkhooper

I have to tell you I lied. I've lived for years with the rule of never having more supplies than were needed for the project that I was working on. And then only one project at any one time. But Quilting has defeated me. I now have a stash of 5 fat quarters and I'm looking to add an oriental panel and some coordinating fabrics. This is addicting.

MadQuilter

Looks like you still have it under control. lol

omak

just a little addiction ... whew! I was worried when she started her confession! LOL <wave>

ByThePiece

I am so glad I looked at this one. I can't stop laughing. I admit to nothing either. Maybe I'll admit to being a packrat. I don't so much save stuff but I have a thing for fabric and sewing and craft stuff. There were a few years that I had no income and clung to stuff I could make or sell. I knew someday I would retire and bought fabric at yard sales and on sale and put it away. Then I got apple boxes at the grocery store and sorted the scraps/yardage by color. When I moived from Ga to Ala I brought more fabric than anything else. I had a job this time but still couldn't resist a sale. It's not all cotton. But now I'm retired and enjoying the nuts I squirreled away.

MistyMarie

I think she is definitely helping the local quilt stores stay in business. What she does with her purchases really is her choice. Now if the space was needed for something else and she was using it for a stash she wasn't going to use, I would think that was selfish. If she got the fabric for free and didn't share with others, I would consider that selfish too. However, it seems she is buying this fabric with her own money.

I have a very large stash, most of which I purchased myself. Mine is getting reorganized because I had to move it three times in the last few years, but I would be very distressed if I was called selfish because I wasn't willing to share my stash with others. I am mostly a dreamer right now, but I have plans for so much of my stash that I wouldn't want to donate mine to charity just because right now I am not using most of it.

(I have given away a bunch of the fabric that was given to me, but only when I believe that it will be used in a project and not just re-stashed into another person's "someday" collection.)