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09-27-2013, 08:45 AM

#31

Mariposa

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Location: Eastern Washington

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I too, love my stash. Though it does need a few "holes" filled, it helps me to be more creative in fabric choices. I have also better enjoyed scrappy quilts, and I really like samplers! I enjoy swapping blocks in the swaps here, and having quilty reminders of fellow QB friends as I look at the blocks in the quilt.

09-27-2013, 08:49 AM

#32

Beach Bum Quilter

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Join Date: Jun 2013

Location: Magnolia, TX

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Oooh..I'm a newbie quilter and really look forward to growing my stash!! I love the inspiration I find every time I get on this board!!

09-27-2013, 08:51 AM

#33

cmrenno

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Location: Upstate New York

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AliKat

One of my friends and I bought a quilt magazine for 10 cents ... She fell in love with one of the patterns in the magazine and made it strictly from her stash. She calls it her 10 cent quilt. She is now making her 4th one still using just her stash.

AliKat I am very curious about this 10 cent quilt. Can you please share with us the name of this pattern? May I ask what magazine it came from.

Thanks!
Colleen

09-27-2013, 09:13 AM

#34

Tiggersmom

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Join Date: Aug 2013

Location: Arizona

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Me too Debbie C: actually I think I'm in stash overload! I know some of you are going to say 'wahhh' give it to me, I have too many projects started [over 25+] on one side and fabric sorted by color on the other side of my double size closet hiding behind the doors.....well, not always hiding cause I can't get the doors closed sometimes.

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Originally Posted by Debbie C

I spend more time creating my stash, I think, than I do actually creatining FROM my stash!!

09-27-2013, 10:36 AM

#35

Emma S

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Join Date: Jun 2010

Location: Roseburg, OR

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In all the years I've quilted, I only purchased all the fabric together once. Building a stash enables me to take advantage of sales prices. Fabric and a deal, doesn't get better than that.

09-27-2013, 10:52 AM

#36

caspharm

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Join Date: Jan 2011

Location: Nevada

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I agree. I am going "shopping" in my stash for the BOM I joined this month. The LQS is running the Tula Pink City Sampler as a BOM, but your choice of fabrics. So I bought a couple of remnants, but am mainly pulling from my stash. I knew it would come in handy!

09-27-2013, 10:54 AM

#37

Taughtby Grandma

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Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: Colorado Springs

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I had the same experience finishing up some pillow shams to match a quilt I just finished for my SIL and her new hubby.

09-27-2013, 05:14 PM

#38

maviskw

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Join Date: May 2012

Location: Central Wisconsin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by cmrenno

AliKat I am very curious about this 10 cent quilt. Can you please share with us the name of this pattern? May I ask what magazine it came from.

Thanks!
Colleen

"10cents" is not a pattern. She called it her 10 cent quilt because she paid 10 cents for the book that had the pattern in it and made it with fabric from her stash.

09-27-2013, 05:18 PM

#39

maviskw

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Location: Central Wisconsin

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Quote:

Originally Posted by petpainter

I am a fairly new quilter and although I have a few "kits" I have put together with the fabric and pattern, I don't have much stash at all. I take many classes at my Guild and they all say "just pull it from your stash, it won't cost anything". I only have probably what equals to 7 fat qtrs at this point, so I REALLY need to build mine...especially in batiks. I have a stash for garments still, but it's really a pain to have to buy 1/4 yd pieces to make strips for a simple project. Quilters never believe that someone doesn't have a "stash", but you have to start somewhere!!!

I wouldn't go out and buy expensive fabric just to enhance my stash. Buy from rummage sales if you like the fabric, from thrift stores or from fabric stores when they have really big sales. The only other reason I might buy something is if: I was really in love with it; it speaks to me; I've got the money now; I need a reward for ?????

09-28-2013, 04:02 PM

#40

leighway

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Join Date: Apr 2011

Location: N. Atlanta, GA

Posts: 805

I realized long ago that quilting was an art and that I needed to have a pallet from which to work. Does a painter buy paint? Then a quilter should buy fabric. It's an obligation.