how much yardage for stash building?

[Deborah W.]

Oh yes? and how many yards?

Maybe 15 to 20 meters as I just bought a piece for quilt backing that is 5 meters. I am seriously under-stocked! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Deborah W.]

:shock: :shock: :shock:

[wendy w.]

:lol: :lol:

Perhaps we ought to start a thread and have a running total of everyones stash and see how much it all adds up to :shock: :shock:

[Deborah W.]

:lol: :lol:

Perhaps we ought to start a thread and have a running total of everyones stash and see how much it all adds up to :shock: :shock:

I like to keep track of what I use and what I buy and see how I come out at the end of the year. I started doing this in 2011 along with Judy Laquidara at Patchwork Times. It is interesting and makes me mindful of my purchases and also spurs me on when I haven't used any fabric in a week!

[Nancy R.]

Oh dear, glad I'm not alone. I'm doing a project and pull fat quaters but can't use them because I like them too much. How nuts are we :roll:

I am trying to get over it. Something Alex said hit a chord and it's beginning to help. It was something like this... "I don't worry about using up fabric because I know there is something even more beautiful waiting for me at the quilt shop." I have that notion in my head but it has not yet reached my heart. I am working on it!

I don't have any problems using my beautiful fat quarters because using them means that either I'm going to get to see them more in the finished project, or someone I care about will. Either way, it makes me excited to find a project where they fit! And I think one of the reasons I'm so attracted to making scrap quilts is that I can include pieces of more of my different beautiful fat quarters (and 1/2 yards since that is what I buy more now) in a single project so, if I'm keeping it, I can admire all of my different beauties at once! I might be a little TOO in love with my fabric....

Nancy

[Diane F.]

Say what? You only have five fat quarters?? :shock: :shock: :shock:
I have NO IDEA how many fat quarters are in my stash. I like pictorial applique and it takes a VARIETY of fabrics. I did have to stop (slow down?) when I discovered I had purchased the same Stonehenge fabric (color) three times!

[Diane F.]

Well, yes I do have some fabric that I've had for years but it's just too precious to cut into. I get it too. Nuts is right! :roll: I keep telling myself ..'one day".

[Roseanne M.]

Oh dear, glad I'm not alone. I'm doing a project and pull fat quaters but can't use them because I like them too much. How nuts are we :roll:

Wendy, Lotti & Terrie, thinking about what you wrote. Once heard Stacy Michell of Shades Textiles (beautiful hand dyes) tell about one of her Japanese customers who loved her fabrics so much that she ordered 1 piece of every color. Well, Stacy is so sweet
& thoughtful she wrapped each piece in tissue & just generally made a lovely presentation of it all. She heard
from the customer that the package had arrived & was too precious to cut into anything & use, so would Stacy please send
another set of every color so she could save the first set & use the second! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Wish I could afford to "collect" fabric! Maybe the things that we make are our way of "saving" & collecting it!

[wendy w.]

Oh Roseanne that is why we have fat quarters they are so collectable and you can buy a few at a time (many times over) without breaking the bank.

I have a confession, I've never bought yards of fabric for a quilt.

A couple of times, a couple of yards for the back but usually I piece the back from fabrics I'm not keen on or fabric I adore and can't bear to cut so can still see it whole. How contradictory is that :lol:

[Lotti D.]

i look at it this way...
we need to invest our earnings for a rainy day - living in central switzerland i won't get very far investing in realestate where a 3 bedroom apartment will start at about $750'000 to purchase) - so i decided to invest in fabric - i might not be able to eat or live anywhere once i retire - but i'll be able to sew and have lots of yummy quilts to wrap myself in as i huddle under my favorite tree near the lakefront in zug :roll:

[Lotti D.]

i went to a vacation few weeks ago, it was to the north netherlands, there is the biggest quilt shop in the netherlands. i didnt buy too much fabric lately, so i found my self that i bought 3- 4 meters/yards, of each background fabrics, then i bought 2 meters from each color that i like (not all the colors that i like...i couldnt efford it, didnt find my rich prince charming that will sponsor it yet), then bought few fat quarters - i call them inspirations patches (i like very much their colors combination, and use them as a guide for quilt colors).
it is a universe rule - you can never ever have too much fabric!

[wendy w.]

he he that's going on my signature

[wendy w.]

[Margo C.]

Our fabrics are our palette. A painter can get by with just a few tubes of paint, and mix the color she wants.
We can't do that, so we need to expand our palettes with an assortment of colors and values.

[Roseanne M.]

Our fabrics are our palette. A painter can get by with just a few tubes of paint, and mix the color she wants.
We can't do that, so we need to expand our palettes with an assortment of colors and values.

Yes, exactly! I agree wholeheartedly!
And that's my story & I'm sticking with it & if anybody has a problem with my palette, well... :twisted: :twisted:

Thanks, Margo! Good to "see" ya!