How Important is Your Stash?
#51
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Just move back to Chattanooga, TN.
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When you think you have bought the right fabrics you get home and start the project and something is just not right. I go looking for something else. Do I go Out- NO- I go to my Stash! Last month, I needed just a little more for a quilt I am making for my granddaughter and found material stashed back that I had used in projects made for her daddy. Now the quilt will have double meanings and memories in it.
#53
Originally Posted by katesnanna
It makes me happy but also make me feel guilty at times.Wish I could sew faster.
But being happy is important. DH, even though he comments at times about my stash, says if it makes you happy do it.
But being happy is important. DH, even though he comments at times about my stash, says if it makes you happy do it.
#54
Great to have something here at home to pick from - especially with the house and star BOM on here.
I do have to share this with you...it seems that my having a stash is more important to my husband than to me! When I go shopping for a project I am doing, he is running around picking up various pieces of material and insisting I get them for my stash! :-) Lucky me!!! ...annd no I won't share my husband!
I do have to share this with you...it seems that my having a stash is more important to my husband than to me! When I go shopping for a project I am doing, he is running around picking up various pieces of material and insisting I get them for my stash! :-) Lucky me!!! ...annd no I won't share my husband!
#55
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Glenmoore, PA
Posts: 7,941
I love the replies. I don't have a husband any more so that is not a problem. But my DDIL, who is NOT a quilter but understands, is always looking at it in amazement that I can't find the right piece for a certain project. Usually in the end I do shop from my stash. I just need to purge all the non-quilting fabric now that I am not apparel sewing any more. That will leave me LOTS of room for more quilting fabric. If I had to evacuate I would have to rent a U-Haul truck for stash and machines.
#56
My stash is pretty important. I like to have plenty of variety on hand because you never know when you might need that certain fabric that is just perfect for what you want to make. And, besides, I love scrappy quilts.
#58
Originally Posted by valsma
Pretty important. If I don't have any, when I can't afford to buy fabric I couldn't still make things.
2. small lap quilt to be used as the sample for a learn to quilt class.
How important is my stash, priceless:)
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