Hmmmm, if I could go back in time how would I build my stash? Blenders, small prints with a limited colour palette and batiks, batiks, batiks!
What I would change?
Drop dead gorgeous large print I must have? Small cut that is enough to make a tote or large cut that is enough for a pieced back. I don’t like large prints for borders because to my eye they overwhelm the piecing. Most of the many many pretty large prints I accumulated ended up being cut into increasingly small pieces so that I could use them up in scrap quilts.
I would stay away from precuts as they make a mess when prewashing and I now prewash everything. Also too many collections have as many ugly fabrics as pretty fabrics.
Anything else would be for a specific pattern I want to make. I find it difficult to work the other way. The fabric I have never seems to work for the pattern I want to make. I find myself searching for a pattern to accommodate the fabric I have and I am rarely thrilled with the outcome.
Last edited by Cattitude; 01-18-2021 at 05:08 AM.