Is It Still A Stash When.....
08-01-2011, 04:20 AM
#33
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I had cleared out most of my stash and then got about 200 yards at an estate sale. It is really unmanageable but I can get my stash into 5 bins (redoing my sewing room to make room for quilting frame). Anyway, I am glad I don't have a huge mobile home for just my fabric anymore.
08-01-2011, 04:33 AM
#34
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I was going to post the same question regarding a "stash". I started sorting mine last night and was wanting to ask how you sort your fabric. I went through ten big totes and have hardly made a dent in what I have. So far, I have sorted by theme; i.e., Halloween, Christmas, florals, novelties, homespuns, solids, reproductions (Civil War and 30's). I am inundated and overwhelmed with fabric. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
08-01-2011, 04:37 AM
#35
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I love it! SABLE club-- stash accumulating beyond life expectancy!!
I have to be a lifetime member of this club, I built a stash when I was sewing and not quilting. So I have even more fabrics to contend with.
I do give away what I know I will never use, or I make community quilts with fabrics I don't care for anymore.
I have to be a lifetime member of this club, I built a stash when I was sewing and not quilting. So I have even more fabrics to contend with.
I do give away what I know I will never use, or I make community quilts with fabrics I don't care for anymore.
08-01-2011, 04:45 AM
#37
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Originally Posted by charismah
The problem with me is this:
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.....if my LQS still has it I will leave it in my stash and go buy more. See how crazy I am?
3. My stash is so big ...I don't want to go searching thorugh it to find just what I need...so I go buy more.
OR
I find that my stash is all the same colors becuase I buy what I am attracted to...and most of it doesn't work
4. Those beautiful lines of fabric that I buy......I think I have hardly made a quilt only using one line of fabric ( maybe a jelly roll quilt or something)....because why?? I think because it's so matchy-matchy and I always have to have something to break it up.
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.....if my LQS still has it I will leave it in my stash and go buy more. See how crazy I am?
3. My stash is so big ...I don't want to go searching thorugh it to find just what I need...so I go buy more.
OR
I find that my stash is all the same colors becuase I buy what I am attracted to...and most of it doesn't work
4. Those beautiful lines of fabric that I buy......I think I have hardly made a quilt only using one line of fabric ( maybe a jelly roll quilt or something)....because why?? I think because it's so matchy-matchy and I always have to have something to break it up.
Debbie you can tell from all your replies that you are not alone!
08-01-2011, 04:47 AM
#38
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: state of confusion
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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!
08-01-2011, 05:31 AM
#40
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Middle America
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Morning Debbie and congrats on getting your stash under control. My problem is I have three sections--1 for Project Linus donations; 1 for Guild charity quilts and 1 for myself of high end fabrics. Just as soon as I get my Project Linus tub about empty, along comes another box delivered of odds and ends to make headway upon.
Oh well, some day I will get to that third stack of fabrics--My Stack! lol
Oh well, some day I will get to that third stack of fabrics--My Stack! lol
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