I love my stash too much!
#11
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Ask yourself when you look at your stash, "what is someone else going to make with my pretties?" Yes it is hard to use up your favourites but saving them means someone else will use them after your gone.
#12
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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Something you might want to try (I've been thinking about doing this as well). If you have some quilting magazines, find a pattern that you like and go into your stash for the fabrics. Pretend you have no fabric shops nearby and no computer to order on line. After you have completed the quilt you can treat yourself by buying new fabric!
#14
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Missouri
Posts: 4,061
I'm also a fabric collector, but lately I've been choosing two pieces at a time from my stash to make a block (right now I'm making churn dash blocks for a scrappy quilt). That way I have the fabric to look at and soon I'll also have a quilt. ...... taking baby steps .....
Of course I'm still buying some fabrics for specific projects but I'm making a start. I'm also making blocks and mug rugs from my scraps collection that is overflowing a box.
Of course I'm still buying some fabrics for specific projects but I'm making a start. I'm also making blocks and mug rugs from my scraps collection that is overflowing a box.
#15
think i am just selfish about my stash. mostly i make quilts for others and just don't think they deserve the beautiful stuff in my stash. ha ha! rarely make anything for me but intend to. even bigger laugh. really, some day i will.
know i need to get busy as i don't foresee the need for all that fabric after i am gone.
know i need to get busy as i don't foresee the need for all that fabric after i am gone.
#16
I wish it was just fabric that my room is full of. It seems I like anything that pertains to sewing so much I buy or collect it. My patterns are overflowing past the large storage cabinet I got to keep them in. The bookshelf is overflowing too. My thread drawers are full to the brim and buttons .... Well that is another story. I know during the winter when I don't want to forge out, I appreciate my stash. But, I really don't need any more inspiration fabric.
I say, have a party playing with it. There is more at the store!
I say, have a party playing with it. There is more at the store!
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
Posts: 8,562
I got over that habit years ago by hanging onto fabric "because I loved it and wanted to use it for something special" for so long that I finally outgrew it. Then I had to use it in something not so special after all because I was no longer enchanted with it!! Now, as said before, I use my stash so I can view it outside the drawer!
Jan in VA
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