2020 Fabric Moratorium
01-25-2020, 07:58 AM
#163
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Two very good ideas, tranum! We have a local second hand shop that sells used donated items (has a great book section) and a sack full of new potholders may sell well for the shop.
01-25-2020, 10:15 AM
#164
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My favorite quilt shop in the Greater Tampa area has a special sale today. Three yard bundles for $20. Need to go sew until they close.
01-25-2020, 11:00 AM
#165
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Originally Posted by Krisb
My favorite quilt shop in the Greater Tampa area has a special sale today. Three yard bundles for $20. Need to go sew until they close.
Yesterday I nearly succumbed to bluprint’s special 35% off everything in your cart including sale items and member discount on top! I really do need some lights and light to medium light blenders, so I found two fat quarter bundles that looked about right and also their fatquarter batik box, put them in my cart and was thrilled by the price- what a deal for 30 yards of fabric !!! Then I deleted them from my cart and went back to the UFO I’m trying to finish quilting. I have a garment sewing class at my LQS on Tuesday- I’ll hit up their remnants section to get a selection of lights that will fill out the gaps in my stash without being way more fabric than I actually need or have storage space for.
Rob
Last edited by rryder; 01-25-2020 at 11:03 AM.
01-25-2020, 12:00 PM
#166
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Krisb/Rob…excellent display in strength and fortitude!!! I totally get it. I received the monthly newsletter for one of the shops in town and they advertised 40% off precuts...one night only for 3 hours only......omgosh…...that would have been a disaster for me if I had attended. But, I didn't go and, instead, painted a welcome sign for my front porch. lol... it was killing me tho….
01-25-2020, 12:05 PM
#167
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Originally Posted by tranum
Making potholders using fabric not “quilt worthy”. Given to food banks and other charity outlets. At any rate it’s not living with me anymore.
01-26-2020, 03:27 PM
#168
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Everyone is doing so good. I purchased a yard of fabric to finish a quilt for our retiring choir director. All I had left over was a 5X11" piece, so I think I did pretty good at not adding to the stash. And I used about 7 yards from stash. I posted a pic in the UFO thread.
01-26-2020, 05:47 PM
#169
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Originally Posted by Belfrybat
Everyone is doing so good. I purchased a yard of fabric to finish a quilt for our retiring choir director. All I had left over was a 5X11" piece, so I think I did pretty good at not adding to the stash. And I used about 7 yards from stash. I posted a pic in the UFO thread.
Rob, you are a quilter of strength and discipline! Good for you for not adding to what I suspect is a pretty deep stash.
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01-27-2020, 05:21 AM
#170
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We're close to the end of January 2020, & people are holding strong! Keep up the good work on using stash fabric & not adding to stash. I've packed some of my fabric but cleverly left it accessible so if I find some time to sew a little bit I don't have to buy new fabric. I have some blocks left from a quilt & I plan to make pillow cases to go with the quilt. All the fabric for them is together so I can work on that once I bind my red & pink quilt.
