As artists, you know that is what you are, you need many materials at hand to pull your ideas together. Once you begin collecting for a certain skill and stop for a while, don't ever think you won't incorporate some of your ideas and materials into something else. My husband tried to give away my machine once. I was heart struck by the idea. And now I am quilting, something I never thought I would do as it is so precise and I have no family history of quilt making.