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08-01-2011, 04:12 PM

#61

Robinmg

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Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Montana

Posts: 296

I don't want a big stash because then I won't know what I have. I also don't have the room and I do not like a messy room to work in.

08-01-2011, 04:16 PM

#62

np3

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Join Date: May 2010

Location: Bakersfield, CA

Posts: 13,214

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jennifer22206

DH made me a deal - if I can use up/sell/give away 50% of my stash within 1 year and 4 months, he's going to buy me a Nolting for my 30th birthday! So I'm in severe clean up mode.. I want that Nolting!

Do you need my address?

08-01-2011, 04:26 PM

#63

Winkee

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Join Date: Jul 2011

Location: NC

Posts: 644

I don't have a huge stash, just enough and I usually think about it before I buy.

08-01-2011, 04:39 PM

#64

madamekelly

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Join Date: Jul 2010

Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA

Posts: 7,695

Quote:

Originally Posted by charismah

Well I have quite a stash myself.

1. I either don't want to cut into those sets because they are a set all from the same line....or because they are now unavailable...so if I use them I won't have any left (What a hoarder!)...so I need to save them for something *special*...This is crazy talk!

2. If I have it in my stash and I "LOVE" it.....

3. My stash is so big ...so I go buy more.
OR
I find that my stash is all the same colors at...and most of it doesn't work

4. Those beautiful lines of fabric that I buy......because why?? I think because it's so matchy-matchy , I always have to have something to break it up.

So I am tying to think about dwindling the stash down by using it! In reality...isn't there always going to be something pretty that comes out that I will fall in love with all over again?
Probably. So I just need to use it and enjoy it until something else catches my eye.....
I signed up for a Judy Niemeyer class.....I am making her pattern called "Japanese Fan".....I pulled everything out of my stash to make it.... can tell you now..my quilt will look nothing like the picture...and I doubt anyone in the class will have something similiar to what I am making. But I am making myself stick to this plan. :thumbup:

You could study Welsh quilts. They were made of whole cloth with prints. You just quilt around the design. I hope this helps you 'save' and use some of your stash. You are so good at FM, I'll bet you could do amazing things with this idea. (I hope you don't mind my editing your comments, but there it is... :oops: )

08-01-2011, 04:56 PM

#65

Buttonlady

Member

Join Date: Feb 2011

Location: UP of Michigan

Posts: 31

I Love, Love, Love my stash. Oh, I occasionally get a case of the guilts when I discover another bunch and I tell myself "no more". But it makes me happy and it doesn't hurt anyone. I love pulling from it when I see something I want to make. I am definitely a charter member of the SABLE club. Who has more fun than a quilter with lots of fabric?

08-01-2011, 05:00 PM

#66

Phannie1

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Join Date: Feb 2011

Location: Just move back to Chattanooga, TN.

Posts: 2,022

I do not have a big stash, I have undone projects! Really, My stash is small when I see pictures of everyone elses sewing room pictures. Mine fits in a box. But I have been buying up projects that fit into another box a little larger. So is this just adding to my stash or more UFOs?

08-01-2011, 05:15 PM

#67

khurtdvm

Senior Member

Join Date: Jul 2011

Location: Chesterfield, MO

Posts: 656

Whatever you have, is your stash. It may not fit someone else's idea of a stash, but it doesn't belong to that someone else. No one can tell you that your stash is too small - except you - and no one can tell you that your stash is too large - except maybe your significant other who is being buried by it. ;) If it truly fits your needs and you aren't going into debt to feed it or running out of space to put it, then it's fine. If YOU are bothered by it and feel it's too large, then you need to destash. If YOU are bothered by it and feel it's not adequate for your needs, then you need to hit some sales as the budget allows.

My stash accumulated with sewing clothing, mostly for my boys, so it's not a great stash for quilting, unless I get into scrappy quilts. But that's okay - I live near a good LQS, and I don't have room to stash quilting fabrics right now.