Building up a stash from nothing
#62
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Central Indiana
Posts: 41
Wow! I am glad to know that I am not the only one that does not have a stash. Without some sort of plan for buying fabrics I can see myself spending a lot and still not having what I need. I appreciate all the really great advice from everyone. Thank you for asking the question.
Brenda
Brenda
#64
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Posts: 585
Originally Posted by NANAOF2BOYS
also for a stash go to yard/garage sales and can get fabric from there for your stash I always look for fabric while garage saling lol
#66
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: West Texas
Posts: 34
I've found that collecting fabric is probably my favorite part of quilting. A family friend was putting his mother in a nursing home, and she had been a fabric collector her entire life. She kept it in great condition. When he had to go through her fabric room, he called me and my sister in law (also a quilter) and asked us if we'd like to come and take WHATEVER WE WANTED!!!! He wouldn't accept money, he just wanted it to be used. I'd died and gone to heaven. We're talking ROOMS full of fabric!! We lived in a teeny tiny apt at the time, so I only took as much as I could squeeze into our closet. Now that I have an entire craft room all my own, I tell my husband, "I wish I could've grabbed more!" But that was how I started my stash. People have already mentioned it, but collecting fat quarters and eights is a good start to any stash. It's inexpensive, and sometimes they'll go on clearance at Joann's for like $.99 for each, and I'll just buy and buy and buy. Even ones I don't think of as being my style, I know I'll use someday in a scrap quilt.
#68
I check the remnant bins first for bits of this and that. Amazing how often you find the "perfect" piece in there. Then when at least 50% off, I may buy the whole bolt if it is for a quilt I am working on. I also get the bolt of basics like beige, white, black, etc, that you can always be used for something.
I also tend to have "periods." I have gone through my fleece period, quilted double sided period and am now entering my quilting period. About to finish my first quilted wall hanging and working on first king size quilt.
I also tend to have "periods." I have gone through my fleece period, quilted double sided period and am now entering my quilting period. About to finish my first quilted wall hanging and working on first king size quilt.
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