petthefabric

When we moved 2+ yrs ago, forced purging reduced my stash to 20%. Still, there’s more stash than life expectancy. And when I drool over my favorites, I can’t figure out a way to use them.

I’ve heard rumors that Florida is headed to not providing plastic bags at grocery. Fabric market bags can use 2 yards each and the fabric design is endless.

what are you doing with stash?

Quiltwoman44

well right now i cut out ten inch drunkards path pieces. Will make a quilt with those. If i get my machine fixed that is. and hope to make more. I've been lacking the drive to sew for about a year now but it's back.
If you intend to give some fabric away, contact a guild and see if they will take it. I gave away a lot of fabrics and quilts sometime ago.

cashs_mom

I use my stash for anything that I need to make. Bags, practice pieces, scrappy quilts, linings/backings for pillow shams. I seem to find a lot of uses for random fabrics. Maybe because I don't worry about how much fabric I have so it seems to get used up.

sloscotty

Building it.

KalamaQuilts

I quit buying fabric in 2001. In 2017 I started super small just what I needed. Then I had cancer 3 times and am losing my vision, so when I need something, because I'm a scrappy quilter I ask to purchase specific scraps here I can afford fabric, I do NOT want a stash. so far it is working... but I sure do recognize the problem. If you think of a folded finished top and stand in front of your stash with that in hand, you can see how many quilts you'd need to make to even make a dent.

the biggest problem is the dopimine high hit people get f rom shopping. When I first quite cold turkey it would actually make my stomach hurt going into a shop to get needles or whatever. WANT WANT WANT. Zero need.what is done is done, just enjoy what you have and quit shopping. Easier said than done.

Onebyone

I am making three yard bundles from my stash of yardage to make 3 yard quilts. I can grab a bundle to start a quilt while deciding what next quilt I want to make. The 3 yard quilt is a leader to the next quilt pattern.

Buckeye quilter

After Ohio's All State Shop Hop, I felt a little guilty about how much I bought. Then I looked at my husband's bass boat and Corvette and felt a little better . I have started to address the excess fabric by creating kits out of my current stash of fabrics. I'm starting to really churn out several baby quilts and am consuming some flannel and fleece for the backs. I've also made a couple of donation blankets for an animal shelter. Trying to get some of this fabric moved out of my sewing room so I can move! Hopefully this stash does not outlive me.

LGJARN52

Starting to sell of some of my stash, other pieces I will cut into useable sizes such as 2 1/2 strips or blocks. There are so many crap quilt patterns out there that I'm sure some of it will get used up in my lifetime. I'll only buy pieces to back my quilts with.

Snooze2978

I also have a stash that will last longer than I will. My sister is afraid I'll die before her though her health is terrible with lung issues from smoking 50+ years. Now she's paying for it. Anyway, about 5 years ago, I went thru my stash and pulled every fabric that just didn't click with me, sometimes I wondered why I bought it in the first place. Anyway, I filled 7 large paper grocery bags full of the fabrics, then went thru my larger scraps and made gallon size plastic bags and stuffed them to the gills. Gave all this to my local thrift shop as I know there are quilters within the staff which are mostly volunteers plus every 2 years they have a quilt auction. I might need to do this again as my stash is just not dwindling as I'd hoped for. I did give 4-5 yards to a new neighbor that is making wheelchair lap quilts. Plus I recently finished Elizabeth Hartman's Dinosaur quilt, large size plus used some of the scraps to make it wider to fit a toddler's bed. Now I'm working on a red/white optical illusion queen size bed quilt using what I have in my stash though most of the reds had been pulled years before. I did add 5 yards of whites though to go with it. I gave the scraps from this to my new neighbor also. I just wish it would look like my stash is dwindling somewhat. I still have a couple large totes with partial bolts hiding under the quilt frame yet.

Anyone I see at the thrift shop looking thru their stash I ask if they want to look thru mine and take some but so far no takers.

joe'smom

The fact that we have a small house and that I have to have fabric within easy reach (no bending) has been a control on my stash size. It might still end up being too much, because my capacity for working on things has decreased. Participating in the Fabric Moratorium thread in the Quilting Challenges forum for several years really did help curb my impulse to buy fabric.