2020 Fabric Moratorium
#163
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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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.
#164
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Asheville, previously Lake Vermilion, Tarpon Springs, Duluth, St Paul, Soudan
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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.
#165
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Va.
Posts: 5,753
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.
#166
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….
#167
Well done! I had 3yrds of fabric that was not "my quilt worthy"...really thin but still pretty. I gave to my LA'r who makes stuff for a couple of kid's charities...feels good that it is going to be used for others. She is now my "go to" for stuff I won't be using. She offered to quilt my QOV for free, too... win win....
#168
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.
#169
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.
Last edited by WMUTeach; 01-26-2020 at 05:49 PM.
#170
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Ranger, Texas
Posts: 788
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.