2020 Fabric Moratorium
03-23-2020, 12:36 PM
#361
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 835
Cozy Quilt Designs "Sewquester" Mystery Quilt Along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50dFy9DNHM
https://cozyquilt.com/Newsletters/Cu...SewQuester.htm
Laundry Basket Quiilts/ Quilting Window Mystery Quilt Along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BieIyWjDu68
https://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/blog/page/2/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50dFy9DNHM
https://cozyquilt.com/Newsletters/Cu...SewQuester.htm
Laundry Basket Quiilts/ Quilting Window Mystery Quilt Along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BieIyWjDu68
https://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/blog/page/2/
03-23-2020, 01:28 PM
#362
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Southwest Idaho
Posts: 5,999
Originally Posted by WMUTeach
Just my opinion and not at all a judgement of others. If this episode of quarantine continues, I may change my mind just to keep a shop from closing. Until then keep sewing everyone and reduce your stash.
03-23-2020, 04:33 PM
#363
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Cottage Grove, MN
Posts: 2,807
RFF1010: Thanks for the links. I don’t need to start another project but I will follow along and save the blocks. I want to finish my current WIP and then another one before I get too involved with something else, but who knows? Lol!
03-24-2020, 06:30 AM
#364
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Boothbay Maine
Posts: 9,518
Rff1010, yes thank you for the links. I am finally done with my Arkansas Crossroads and will get it in the mail tomorrow (after I get the label on) to a girlfriend in California who was diagnosed with breast cancer just before Christmas.
and now that WMU Teach has given me perfect instructions to load a photo...here it is on the longarm.
and now that WMU Teach has given me perfect instructions to load a photo...here it is on the longarm.
03-24-2020, 10:16 AM
#368
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Ontario
Posts: 309
There are pros and cons to using only existing stash....
Pros include that because I haven’t been at this for long I remember the reasoning behind every single impulse purchase made over the past few years which hopefully will translate into lessons learned for the future.
Cons include creating tops that take you back to 1990......and not in a good way. What was I thinking?
This top for me represents the mother of all impulse buys.....and I mean buys in the plural form. First a fat quarter bundle. Then 5.75 more yards because well a FQ bundle isn’t enough and even though I don’t like a lot of fabrics in the bundle if I buy more of the ones I do like it will be OK. Then another 4 yards because ooh I finally found the focus fabric and it will make a nice border and oh they have a few other remnant pieces for a good deal so I might as well get those too as I am already paying for freight to Canada. You think I am done don’t you? Wrong! Hello clearance! $4 a yard? Backing! 5 yards will do it. Oh and maybe one more yard of this one as it is such a deal. But wait....I have so much fabric now I can probably make two tops, I should order enough for another backing, 5 more yards! (Mercifully they ran out and I had to cancel the last five yards).
End result: out of the approximately 15 yds + backing about 8 went into the top, 3 went into my blender stash and 3 went to the thrift shop. If I find anyone who likes it I will be able to use the 5 yds for the backing. I used another 2.5m from stash for the neutral.
Apologies for the long, rambling post but confessing my insane behavior makes me less likely to repeat it!
Pros include that because I haven’t been at this for long I remember the reasoning behind every single impulse purchase made over the past few years which hopefully will translate into lessons learned for the future.
Cons include creating tops that take you back to 1990......and not in a good way. What was I thinking?
This top for me represents the mother of all impulse buys.....and I mean buys in the plural form. First a fat quarter bundle. Then 5.75 more yards because well a FQ bundle isn’t enough and even though I don’t like a lot of fabrics in the bundle if I buy more of the ones I do like it will be OK. Then another 4 yards because ooh I finally found the focus fabric and it will make a nice border and oh they have a few other remnant pieces for a good deal so I might as well get those too as I am already paying for freight to Canada. You think I am done don’t you? Wrong! Hello clearance! $4 a yard? Backing! 5 yards will do it. Oh and maybe one more yard of this one as it is such a deal. But wait....I have so much fabric now I can probably make two tops, I should order enough for another backing, 5 more yards! (Mercifully they ran out and I had to cancel the last five yards).
End result: out of the approximately 15 yds + backing about 8 went into the top, 3 went into my blender stash and 3 went to the thrift shop. If I find anyone who likes it I will be able to use the 5 yds for the backing. I used another 2.5m from stash for the neutral.
Apologies for the long, rambling post but confessing my insane behavior makes me less likely to repeat it!
03-24-2020, 11:14 AM
#369
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,064
Now see, this is what happens to us. The rest of us are all standing back and thinking that's rather lovely, Cattitude!
Maybe not so great a job on collecting/stash growing, but lovely work in finishing.
But it is unfortunate how often it is true that all I need is just this little amount more to make something perfect and we get that and a bit more too... It's like cable tv with now 100s of channels and still nothing much to watch.
Maybe not so great a job on collecting/stash growing, but lovely work in finishing.
But it is unfortunate how often it is true that all I need is just this little amount more to make something perfect and we get that and a bit more too... It's like cable tv with now 100s of channels and still nothing much to watch.
