when do you decide to destash fabrics?

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10-18-2010, 05:01 AM

#51

Blackberry

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Originally Posted by kriscraft99

I would love to see some of y'alls stashes..

Mine is out of control. I spent about 4 hours today straightening just one 5' bookshelf that has my fruit, food, nautical, sports and birthday prints and I counted 20 different cherry prints.

I have 3 pattern cabinets that are full.. each has 4 or 5 drawers (yes "real pattern cabinets" from when Piece Goods Shop closed down in our town), along with close to 12 bookshelves and numerious plastic containers that are sorted by holiday themes.

I keep telling myself I don't "need" all of this fabric but I don't see many I want to part with.

WOW!!! You must have a really, really, big sewing area. I would say room but I think all of that would take more than a room, maybe an entire basement area. I envy you in some way. I don't have a sewing room and only have a discarded microwave stand for storing my fabric and I have to use the kitchen table for sewing for one area of my kitchen is always a total mess.

10-18-2010, 05:17 AM

#52

qwkslver

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I don't destash. If I get tired of something or decide it is unsuitable I make string quilts for the chihuahuas to sleep under. (They're always cold).

10-18-2010, 05:20 AM

#53

Murphy

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Originally Posted by ckcowl

i de-stash by making quilts, table runners, placemats, purses, totes....
the only way i know of to destash is to keep sewing :), making stuff with all that fabric, after all, isn't that what we buy it for?

Yep, this is how I do it (rofl).

10-18-2010, 06:01 AM

#54

lillybeck

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Originally Posted by kriscraft99

is it because you want more or because you are tired of them?

I did mine twice due to moves because of room but I still have some that have been around for a while.

10-18-2010, 06:03 AM

#55

wolph33

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I destash when all shelves are full,all my spare boxes are full,stacks on the floor that keep getting bumped over and my cutting table has a mountain on it.I am destashing this fall.also have more 5 in squares than I could ever use

10-18-2010, 06:17 AM

#56

NanSew

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Originally Posted by IrishNY

When my sewing room gets too messy and there seems to be fabric all over the place, I check the stash to see if there is any fabric that I know I won't use because I don't like it anymore. As my taste changes, I destash. No sense keeping stuff I know I will never use.

What she said. When I de-stash I take it to a group, any group that does sewing for charity.

10-18-2010, 06:21 AM

#57

ccb2200

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I very seldom destash. When I do it is because I have had the fabric for a very long time and I figure that I will never use it. I don't throw it away.

10-18-2010, 06:34 AM

#58

akrogirl

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Originally Posted by MommaDorian

I wish I HAD a stash. lol I tend to buy when I need it for a specific quilt. When I get new ideas I'm stumped because I never have what I need.

That will always be the case ;-)

10-18-2010, 06:34 AM

#59

carolstickelmaier

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I DESTASH WHEN I NO LONGER THINK I WILL USE SOME OF THE FABRICS..NORMALLY I DONATE TO GROUPS OF WOMEN WHO MAKE QUILTS AND OTHER THINGS FOR THE POOR OR PEOPLE IN NEED. GENERALLY I MAKE QUILTS FOR ST JUDE AND CANCER PATIENTS THAT WE MET WHILE MY HUSBAND WENT THROUGH CHEMO. ALSO FOR NURSING HOME PATIENTS..AND FAMILY..SOME DAY I WILL MAKE ONE FOR MYSELF....I HAVE TWO FROM MY GREAT GRANDMA AND GENERALLY USE THEM..THEY ARE SO FULL OF LOVE

10-18-2010, 06:53 AM

#60

kellen46

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Originally Posted by kriscraft99

OH YES I love cherry fabric, and pears....in fact any fruity fabric I will buy. I am not sure why but it just appeals to me. Also roosters and chickens. Or a blue check with little red flowers. Playing with fabric puts me in a happy place. I still have some pieces I cannot cut. I think that makes me a fabricaholic and I do not want a cure.