When is too much fabric - too much fabric?
03-21-2013, 04:33 PM
#23
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I have a pretty decent stash and love to fabric shop but I have been trying to use from my stash, I find it very gratifying doing a whole quilt top from what I already have. I usually do purchase backing fabric.
03-21-2013, 04:56 PM
#24
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I think we have all "been there, done that, have the tee shirt!!!" Now have a double garage, upstairs, family room, bookcases and on and on and on. But when I want a certain little piece of fabric in the middle of the night, I don't have to stop quilting because the stores are closed. Just go look around. Take a deep breath and look again tomorrow 
03-21-2013, 05:09 PM
#25
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I have quite a stash. About 20% is just sitting there and not my current style. I'll just box it up and have 4 shelves empty. So I think I need that much more to fill up my shelves and feed my current style. Do you think DH will go for that logic?
03-21-2013, 05:16 PM
#26
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If I don't want to spend, I don't open fabric site emails. I have my fabrics organized, more or less. TOO MUCH s when you are not comfortable with what you have. that spawns feeling of needless guilt. a few years ago I felt that I was drowning in fabric. When I went through several boxes of scraps, trimming to useful shapes and making 3 large scrappy quilts, I suddenly had a whole lot less. I also got rid of cheap fabric that I had been given and realized I would never use.
03-21-2013, 05:34 PM
#27
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I recommend picking some cool patterns and making a kit. Then throw the book/magazine with page marked right In the bag. Change your perception from "overwhelmed" to blessed to have so much and welcome the challenge to use the fabric.
03-21-2013, 05:44 PM
#28
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At the present time I'm not buying any fabric unless it is to finish a specific project that is currently being worked on. That said, a friend and I will be going on a shop hop starting April 5. It will involve going to quilt shops I only visit every couple of years so don't know what will happen then!
03-22-2013, 03:01 AM
#29
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Originally Posted by nhweaver
I think I have reached the "no more fabric" line in my life. There is fabric every where, waiting to be used. Every where I look, I find more. It started this weekend, when I dropped off a package for my sister (I do her clothes shopping for her, COPD has limited her stamina), and I gave her a bag of fabric instead of her new slacks. We chatted, and I left (long trip home). She texted me and asked if she has to sew her own clothing now? (hehe). I gave her a bag of navy backing fabric instead of her navy pants, but I can't find her navy pants.
I must do something to organize this stash. It has become overwhelming, but I love each and every yard, fat quarter, scrap, bit and piece. Maybe I am depressed, - weather is still cold (for DE), maybe I need to shop? I think at this point medication would be cheaper. Is anyone else at their wits end with their stash?
I must do something to organize this stash. It has become overwhelming, but I love each and every yard, fat quarter, scrap, bit and piece. Maybe I am depressed, - weather is still cold (for DE), maybe I need to shop? I think at this point medication would be cheaper. Is anyone else at their wits end with their stash?
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