2019 Fabric Moratorium
#951
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Maine
Posts: 873
Pearl40, there arent really hard & fast rules here. It's just a thread to make us more mindful in what we buy. Buying fabric to fill the need for a project is fine. Buying fabric to hoard & pet & croon 'my precious' to is what we're trying to avoid. Use it before we lose it! Some people have had floods & other disasters that destroyed fabric collections. Then it helps no one. So enjoy using the fabric you have, but get what you need to complete a project, by all means!
#952
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Glenmoore, PA
Posts: 7,941
I counted my completions since the first of the year, and I have made 14 quilts so far, with 2 more to be assembled. All of them have been from some form of stash, with only a couple backings purchased. My stash of precuts has slimmed down a little, but there are still too many to count. I guess I need to start staying up at night instead of sleeping. I don't have a problem with stacking up tops to save for a "rainy day", since I have my own longarm to quilt my quilts. I make sure I quilt them as soon as they are finished. I have a friend who loves to do bindings, so she binds my quilts, and I quilt hers.
#953
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 2,414
I counted my completions since the first of the year, and I have made 14 quilts so far, with 2 more to be assembled. All of them have been from some form of stash, with only a couple backings purchased. My stash of precuts has slimmed down a little, but there are still too many to count. I guess I need to start staying up at night instead of sleeping. I don't have a problem with stacking up tops to save for a "rainy day", since I have my own longarm to quilt my quilts. I make sure I quilt them as soon as they are finished. I have a friend who loves to do bindings, so she binds my quilts, and I quilt hers.
#955
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Glenmoore, PA
Posts: 7,941
The only problem I have with the deals with my friends is that the one quilty friend that I sew with buys me fabric when it is a good price, in exchange for my quilting her quilts. She and I have pretty much the same taste, so I usually love the fabrics she brings me. But it is not helping to reduce the stash. I have started looking at my stash to find a backing fabric and then search for something to go with it. It is working well so far.
#956
Power Poster
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Between the dashes of a tombstone
Posts: 12,716
I too have been looking at stash the same way gof6. Or I will look at larger pieces that are suitable for a wider (6") border or two and build the a controlled scrappy around that.
#958
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,164
The thrift stores have not been giving me fabric this past week, the hubby however has scored on some new shirts. They shut the plant down for the entire weekend so we had more time together than we had thought over the weekend which means I had less time to sew, but fortunately for me, I have no deadlines and love spending time with the hubby.
So I am where I planned to be on the purple quilt, which isn't quite the same as where I had hoped to be but still made it through all of the stage. Just finished pressing the last 8 sets of sub-units. Today at group I'll be pinning the purples to the sub-units, which will finally make complete quarter blocks, it will go fast until I run out of pins. Don't think I'll have anything to work on while I'm at my mom's so maybe I should grab my knitting time waster. Short form of the story: I bought yarn at the thrift store so that I could knit during the middle of the night when my insomnia was bad and I can't see because my specialty contacts are out and I am fully legally blind. Nothing fancy, just single knit stitch not overly well done. I'm actually pretty impressed with myself for knitting while blind, but it is just something to do and will eventually be a dog blanket.
I'm feeling a bit like a revolving door since hubby and I went out to Mom's on Saturday before Easter. But I think it was important to do something as this was the first year my Aunt didn't have Easter just down the road and my brother went to visit his long distance GF so Mom was alone.
Speaking of my precious-es, I'm taking that vintage football fabric to show off to the group. Usually I'm willing to share but until I know what I'm doing with this one, it's staying intact. I'm thinking I'm going to make my lucky football dress and that I have just enough for a nice full skirt and either a simple shirtwaist style top (but it has been serious decades since I last made a button hole) or maybe just a simple jewel neck line with scoop sleeves and zipper down the back or side. Definitely retro style.
Time to finish packing my bags and car and get going on my day!
So I am where I planned to be on the purple quilt, which isn't quite the same as where I had hoped to be but still made it through all of the stage. Just finished pressing the last 8 sets of sub-units. Today at group I'll be pinning the purples to the sub-units, which will finally make complete quarter blocks, it will go fast until I run out of pins. Don't think I'll have anything to work on while I'm at my mom's so maybe I should grab my knitting time waster. Short form of the story: I bought yarn at the thrift store so that I could knit during the middle of the night when my insomnia was bad and I can't see because my specialty contacts are out and I am fully legally blind. Nothing fancy, just single knit stitch not overly well done. I'm actually pretty impressed with myself for knitting while blind, but it is just something to do and will eventually be a dog blanket.
I'm feeling a bit like a revolving door since hubby and I went out to Mom's on Saturday before Easter. But I think it was important to do something as this was the first year my Aunt didn't have Easter just down the road and my brother went to visit his long distance GF so Mom was alone.
Speaking of my precious-es, I'm taking that vintage football fabric to show off to the group. Usually I'm willing to share but until I know what I'm doing with this one, it's staying intact. I'm thinking I'm going to make my lucky football dress and that I have just enough for a nice full skirt and either a simple shirtwaist style top (but it has been serious decades since I last made a button hole) or maybe just a simple jewel neck line with scoop sleeves and zipper down the back or side. Definitely retro style.
Time to finish packing my bags and car and get going on my day!
#959
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 2,050
Well AnngelAnne, #925, you should be proud of me. LOL. I bought 11 yards of backing fabric. 8 yards I expect to make a set of king size sheets. Once I make them, I would have save 50% in cost. Plus I get sheets in the colors I want. The other 3 yards I will use in future as backing or binding or quilting projects. I just fell in love with the purple fabric.
I’ve been busy finishing up a UFO Afghan I can’t remember when I started. Then I’m working on swapping out 2 blocks patterns on the new QAL = Baskets, Birds and Blooms by quilting the past quilts. We are in week 2. I don’t know how many weeks. Tomorrow is cut out fabric day and the rest of the week sew. Oh I will also start hand sewing binding on 4 UFO projects. Oh well take care.
I’ve been busy finishing up a UFO Afghan I can’t remember when I started. Then I’m working on swapping out 2 blocks patterns on the new QAL = Baskets, Birds and Blooms by quilting the past quilts. We are in week 2. I don’t know how many weeks. Tomorrow is cut out fabric day and the rest of the week sew. Oh I will also start hand sewing binding on 4 UFO projects. Oh well take care.
#960
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Maine
Posts: 873
Well AnngelAnne, #925, you should be proud of me. LOL. I bought 11 yards of backing fabric. 8 yards I expect to make a set of king size sheets. Once I make them, I would have save 50% in cost. Plus I get sheets in the colors I want. The other 3 yards I will use in future as backing or binding or quilting projects. I just fell in love with the purple fabric.
I’ve been busy finishing up a UFO Afghan I can’t remember when I started. Then I’m working on swapping out 2 blocks patterns on the new QAL = Baskets, Birds and Blooms by quilting the past quilts. We are in week 2. I don’t know how many weeks. Tomorrow is cut out fabric day and the rest of the week sew. Oh I will also start hand sewing binding on 4 UFO projects. Oh well take care.
I’ve been busy finishing up a UFO Afghan I can’t remember when I started. Then I’m working on swapping out 2 blocks patterns on the new QAL = Baskets, Birds and Blooms by quilting the past quilts. We are in week 2. I don’t know how many weeks. Tomorrow is cut out fabric day and the rest of the week sew. Oh I will also start hand sewing binding on 4 UFO projects. Oh well take care.
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