Monday, June 9, 2008

organizing


I finally got my "stash" organized, and in doing so I realized two things:
  1. I have way too much fabric, which normally wouldn't be a bad thing, except...
  2. I don't like A LOT of it anymore. I kept thinking to myself...what possessed me to buy this? I am a fabric hoarder. I buy fabric and wait and wait for the perfect project to use it for...until eventually I don't care for it much. It's a BAD habit.
I really want to use up. I don't want to have fabric taking up space. Maybe I will give some away. There is WAY too much good fabric out there to have so much I don't like.

On a happy note, I love having my fabric stacked and visible. I used to keep it in bins, this way it will be easier to see exactly what I have. Plus I love the nice neat piles!

5 comments:

  1. oh, it's so pretty all stacked up like that!

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  2. I came to your site after visiting Etsy to look at the cute hair things that Cool Mom Picks sent out, and seeing the quilts there. I like the stacks! I am just getting in to sewing, but if you put some of your not-so-favorites together into kits, I'd be tempted to buy it in your Etsy shop, or at least pay for postage if you really need someone to give it away to *grins*!

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  3. I was just talking with AmandaJean about this same problem. What do you do with our "ugly" fabric? At least ugly to us. We're trying to come up with an idea.

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  4. Late to comment on this post - but you should do a swap out for the fabric you're not so fond of for the fabric you would like...like the Denyse Schmidt's. I do the same thing - but fabric, love it, wait to use it, then don't care for it.

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  5. Don't worry about the fabric you don't like right now. There will come a time when it is the perfect fabric for some other project. I've been working from stash almost exclusively this year and it is proving true. Seriously, there were some fabrics I wondered why I ever had but they were perfect now for one reason or another (usually colour).

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