joe'smom

I have done alright re-finding fabrics using my on-line purchase receipts (which I stack in order received) and selvage info. I should get into the habit of jotting down the info of fabrics I buy in person, but I always forget.

AllyStitches

With the OBW quilts, there have been times when I've needed to order more fabric to finish borders or create the backing. I've found that I can usually google the fabric by the information on the selvedge. Sometimes it's no longer available, since the run is up or the fabric is so old. One time I found a cut of what I needed on eBay.

Terri D.

I didn't keep track for years, but recently have begun to write with a permanent marker in the selvage area where I bought it and the year.

QuiltE

Good grief! to be THAT organized would ruin the FUN!

No, I have not kept track .... and will not!
If the selvage info helps, then I have that to work from .... if I have that at hand!
For awhile, I was cutting a piece of selvage off, and setting aside, to keep just in case.
Soon got out of that habit ... or did I never really get into it?

Chances are where I bought the fabric, they will not have it later.
So, if going online, the selvage would be the info to have.

Granted .... I could always come and check out your stash.
You found some for me one other time.
Per chance I might have what you are looking for?

Doggramma

No I don't keep track. That's probably why I'm reluctant to cut into some of the unique fabric!

Pennyhal

No, I don't keep track of anything. But if I buy paraticular fabric to make a quilt I've already decided on, I make the quilt top right away. If I need more fabric it enhances my chances of finding more to buy. I've found fabric on Etsy that the stores no longer carry.

Once I ran out of a background fabric that I needed to finish a quilt. So I set the quilt aside...for 11 years. Well, imagine my surprise when it reappeared in the stores. So I bought more and finished the quilt. The dye lot was slightly off, which I liked as it gave a subtle contrast to what would have been a rather flat look.

citruscountyquilter

If I don't have enough fabric to finish something I find something else or make it smaller. I have a hard enough time keeping track of what I have let alone knowing when and where I got it. I find it's great fun for me to make do. Much of what I use are fabric that I've gotten from exchanges, off the give and take table at guild. Some of my quilt guild friends are the same so we have great fun showing what we made from this and that. More power to the organized. I'm just not one of them.

SueSew

I stopped keeping records quite soon after I had made a few quilts, when it dawned on me that there was a snowball's chance in heck that (1) I would ever need it more than three months after I quilted something and (2) if I did I wouldn't be able to find it anyway.

Peace out!

crafty pat

Some of mine is so old it would be impossible to find again. I wish I had kept better records of where it all came from.

moonrise

This is one area where I have photographic memory. I can tell you where I got pretty much every piece of fabric that I own.

However, I can't put names with faces, remember phone numbers, or what I ate for breakfast. LOL!