A stash ....really?

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08-24-2011, 11:46 AM

#51

mollymunchkin

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Join Date: Aug 2011

Location: San Jacinto, Ca

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I build my stash by always buying a little extra. I love the 50% off a cut of fabric coupons at Joann's.

08-24-2011, 12:48 PM

#52

Latrinka

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Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: Slidell, Louisiana

Posts: 6,951

A stash is just that-whatever fabric you have. Can never have too much fabric! Let's see.....I'd like to own a fabric shop someday!

08-24-2011, 12:57 PM

#53

greenini

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Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: Atlanta, Ga

Posts: 1,516

Quote:

Originally Posted by sewmuchmore

I was hoping I would be able to buy more fabric by the end of this month. Well son is back. His wife had a truck she was paying for but it was my DH name to help them get a better payment. And now due to medical reason, I now have the truck and payment :-( so I will have to just drool over fabric :-( :-( :-(

Sell the truck...buy more fabric
:lol: :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:

08-24-2011, 12:59 PM

#54

Marcia D

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Join Date: Jan 2011

Location: Alabama

Posts: 524

Quote:

Originally Posted by leatheflea

OOOOh thats pretty! Thats how i build.

Laughing my tail off. That was really funny!

08-24-2011, 01:17 PM

#55

MargeD

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Location: Lowell, MA

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My style - when I was working and could afford it - was to watch the sales to pick up fabric I couldn't live without, or sometimes for a particular project, but usually the fabric would speak (sometimes yell my name) to me and tell me I had to bring it home with me. The really dangerous place to be was one LQS that would mark down fabric to $2.99/yd - the fabric that had been on the shelf, but space was needed for new fabric. Then I would pick up enough fabric to back a quilt or quilts, as I said - dangerous. But it was so much fun, and I picked up some really great fabric. One fabric in particular had been purchased as a backing, but it demanded to be the focus fabric in a queen size quilt. I always did love a bargain.

08-24-2011, 01:22 PM

#56

KyKat

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Join Date: Jun 2011

Location: Kentucky

Posts: 180

A stash is when DH :evil: says "When did this F#@!-ing room become a quilt factory?" and storms out of the family room. Oh, well. He has a TV in his bedroom.

08-24-2011, 01:25 PM

#57

antiquegirl68

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Join Date: May 2011

Location: West Virginia

Posts: 206

I can't wait until I have a big stash like all of you ladies, I have some fabric but nothing like most of you on here.

08-24-2011, 02:03 PM

#58

oldcottontop

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Join Date: Nov 2010

Location: Louisiana

Posts: 232

Quote:

Originally Posted by wuv2quilt

Quote:

Originally Posted by leatheflea

OOOOh thats pretty! Thats how i build.

How true, how true......OOOOOH and it's on sale? Then of course you buy MORE!!! LOL

True, True.....OOOOOH how pretty and its on sale? OHHHH but its too pretty to cut.... :lol: So I buy more. And round and round she goes and where she stops no body knows.

08-24-2011, 02:23 PM

#59

TheSevenYearStitch

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Join Date: Aug 2011

Location: Norman, OK

Posts: 205

I just kind of happens, I suppose. You see a fabric, you have no plans for it, but you can't let it get away...and repeat until you have no room for it all!

08-24-2011, 02:48 PM

#60

Farm Quilter

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Join Date: Mar 2010

Location: Odessa, Washington

Posts: 1,872

I've built my stash mostly out of "read-as-solid" blenders and a few prints I'll use as focus fabric just because I love them. I tend to like the wilder fabrics so they need other materials to calm them down a bit. I have also built my stash collecting material for landscape quilts. If I find blenders at $3.50 a yard or less, I'll usually stock up a bit! Love that rainbow on my shelves :thumbup: :thumbup: