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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 18 Jan 2013 00:40 #95514

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: So is mine! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Anything to "protect" our precious fabric!

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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 17 Jan 2013 05:57 #95458

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i can so totally relate to that - yup - most of my fabric is happily sleeping quite safe from any sharp rotary cutters or pointy needles.
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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 17 Jan 2013 04:59 #95454

sanann wrote:
I refuse to feel guilty about my stash. I take very good care of it. Wash it, fold it, separate it into colors, types and specialties, place it in drawers where it is safe from my rotary cutter. :lol:

I nearly fell of the chair laughing and love it....lol lol lol.....still going......


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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 15 Jan 2013 16:14 #95361

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It depends on the fabric for me. I do a lot of different kinds of quilts, and many of them include a landscape type background. I get really crabby when I find the perfect fabric to make distant craggy mountains and run out because it's almost impossible to get it again, for instance. So I buy 2 or even 3 yards for some fabrics but only 1/2 yard for others. Recently, I bought a bunch of 10 inch squares of a variety of silks for an applique quilt I'm planning. I will say that I was extremely happy when I retired last January to come into my studio and organize my fabrics into a well-stocked stash. After I organized everything, I spent another bit on filling in the blanks, which is what I do now--fill in blanks. So I have made several quilts lately that I only had to buy more threads (that's another stash issue). I bought bolts of black and steam-a-seam 2.

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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 15 Jan 2013 14:01 #95355

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Sounds like you must have quite a stash now :D

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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 15 Jan 2013 13:42 #95352

Hi,

Quilt shops in my area, Tulsa, Oklahoma, usually recommend 2-3 yards. That's what I buy. Most of the quilts I do I want them to fit a min. twin bed, even if it is a throw because I have only men in my family 6ft +. I do alot of mystery quilts and they seem to always call for 1 1/2 to 2+ yards so like they say, if you think it might show up on your bed best get 3 yards a throw 1 1/2 to 2 yards. I tend to over buy so i can make a scrapy quilt later and allow for errors.

Happy Quilting,
Sonja
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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 28 Jul 2012 20:16 #85005

Ann,
Loved your post! And regarding your decade...don't even think about it. I was at a seminar & they did the
door prize thingy of youngest attendee, etc. When they got to oldest attendee, it was a woman in her 90's!
At a break, we spoke to her & she had just gotten a new sewing machine! So, we've got years ahead.

So sorry to hear about your DH & his friend and their struggles with Alzheimer's.
You are in my thoughts & prayers.
love & hugs,
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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 28 Jul 2012 19:36 #85002

I used to buy a lot of FQ's of novelty fabrics and found them lanquishing in my stash with no where to go. I also had a lot of one to two yd lengths of "focus fabrics" (usually florals or large prints) that I thought I would use some where. Every year I would sort out my stash and donate fabrics that I knew I would not use to a friend who makes charity quilts.

Then because my quilting style had changed, I began to buy only hand dyes or batiks for the basics in my stash. I will occasionally buy a FQ of a fabric that will make a good applique or will fit into something I really need but I am really careful about my "impulse fabric " purchases.

I have limited space for my stash. Two cabinets that are closet organizer cupboards that we have laid on their side and one shoe container (all from a standard closet organizer source) so when I cannot fit fabric in there, I know my stash is too large. (I have to admit I have a few small back up spaces for things I cannot really part with yet but that space is still really limited to I have to keep my stash building tendencies in check) I love fabric and given the dollars and space, I would have the stash to DREAM OF but I have neither and I really have no desire to win the prize of the biggest stash when I die. I would love to use up every scrap. Maybe won't happen since I am in my seventh decade but I can DREAM!!!!!! Hugs to all, Ann
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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 04 Jul 2012 18:06 #83770

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crocus999 wrote:
Word or number type fabric makes good covers for iPod, IPad, tablets, Kobo etc. I've made on and it's so cute!
Great idea.
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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 04 Jul 2012 14:15 #83750

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sanann wrote:
I refuse to feel guilty about my stash. I take very good care of it. Wash it, fold it, separate it into colors, types and specialties, place it in drawers where it is safe from my rotary cutter. :lol:

That's a good one! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 04 Jul 2012 13:55 #83748

sanann wrote:
I refuse to feel guilty about my stash. I take very good care of it. Wash it, fold it, separate it into colors, types and specialties, place it in drawers where it is safe from my rotary cutter. :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't know how many FQs i have but probably around 90. And then there is the yardage - just lots okay! :D I buy 1 1/2yards of fabric if I think it would be nice as a border. 8) But then there are the threads :roll: And now the buttons and sequins. :roll: It will end in tears (as my mother used to say!) :lol:
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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 04 Jul 2012 09:27 #83734

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that's it - keep it safe - let it breathe - give it a chance to shine another day :)
and one day - it will shine in a quilt and be loved to bits
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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 04 Jul 2012 08:38 #83730

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Re: how much yardage for stash building? 04 Jul 2012 07:02 #83726

I refuse to feel guilty about my stash. I take very good care of it. Wash it, fold it, separate it into colors, types and specialties, place it in drawers where it is safe from my rotary cutter. :lol:
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