Unexpected Stash Inheritance == How would you handle it?
#11
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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What a generous offer by your coworker. You also said that your friend is daunted by this lot of fabric so maybe you can help each other out. If you find the stash is not of "the quality you would pay for" then just say to your friend-"Wow, there is a lot of fabric, here. I would have to sew night and day for the next 30 years to use all this up." Then offer to sort for donation and what you want to take. She should appreciate your approach and your help. One thing I have learned about collecting the stash is that it can become unmanageable if not used or accessible.
#12
What a generous offer by your coworker. You also said that your friend is daunted by this lot of fabric so maybe you can help each other out. If you find the stash is not of "the quality you would pay for" then just say to your friend-"Wow, there is a lot of fabric, here. I would have to sew night and day for the next 30 years to use all this up." Then offer to sort for donation and what you want to take. She should appreciate your approach and your help. One thing I have learned about collecting the stash is that it can become unmanageable if not used or accessible.
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Location: New York
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#16
You are a good friend....and good luck with this "gift". I think that this is the moment in our quilting lives where we have to decide what we want our family to do with our stash when we're gone. I've spoken to my husband and my 2 daughters. Each daughter has decided to take a sewing machine. I have the names of girls in my quilting ministry and guild for them to contact for the rest of the stuff. Neither of my daughters sew and my son would just dump it all in the trash. We collect our stash to eventually quilt with it so I think we need to make sure that the fabric and notions go to people who will use them.
#18
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Minnesota
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Ask the friend to give you the stash in bunches so that you can deal with it in smaller groups. You honestly can't fit that much into the family room where you are staying, so you don't want it hanging out there more than a few days. Then pack up what YOU want, bring to storage unit and bring the other stuff immediately to where you plan to donate it. Plan ahead who you will give the excess to so you aren't holding the bag as it were.
#19
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Location: Jozefow, Poland
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Ask the friend to give you the stash in bunches so that you can deal with it in smaller groups. You honestly can't fit that much into the family room where you are staying, so you don't want it hanging out there more than a few days. Then pack up what YOU want, bring to storage unit and bring the other stuff immediately to where you plan to donate it. Plan ahead who you will give the excess to so you aren't holding the bag as it were.
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