Do you have fabric that you can't bear to use,I have,I love it,keep looking at it trying to visualize what to use it in then talk myself out of it.
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I finally made a pillowcase out of some of the treasured, out-of-print fabric that I had saved for a decade. It was the perfect thing to make with the fabric. The rest I plan to add to quilts -- a few pieces at a time. I keep my fabric away from sunlight and extreme temperatures so it lasts a long time.
Cuties, remember -- THIS IS THERAPY!
Regardless of the weather, my finances, the time of year, my health...I ALWAYS have something I can do. I can make...anything!
I store it neatly boxed in clear containers so I can see what I have. If it is hoarding...it is much better than Cabin Fever or idleness or anxiety. We are IN group therapy...we show our work in Projects, share our designs in DBC, offer comfort or laughter or ...in Personal. We learn from each other, improve our skills, and gather as a community to bask in the love of fabric.
It may take time, but you will find the perfect thing to make with that special fabric.
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by oigelcox
10 Aug 2012
You are so right. We are all in it togetner. Maybe there is hope for us all in time. In the mean time I will just sit here and gaze at my favourite fabrics while my hands shake with scissors in hand not wanting to cut it. I love being a cutie makes me feel sane. HE! HE!Hugs Joyce
57675Yes,I have silk,wool,and special cottons....and what do I do? I can't bear to part with a shirt of my husbands before cutting out the back panel,or to throw away an old sweatshirt because I want to make a jacket with bits of old denim jeans...!! I tell myself it comes from wearing hand me downs and always being taught not to waste. I am always "saving" the good stuff. For what I don't know. This is not just fabric.I get a special seasoning,blouse,etc...... and think I have to save it for "special"!! In my heart I know that every day is "special" but it is soooo hard to break old habits.
I am trying to, but then a little bird says..wait until you lose weight,have company,Christmas.....
Hugs, Nadyne
24424You make me feel normal,But some great responses Thank you,women have always had a bottom drawer, take it out, admire it, put it away,How good it feels to have something so lovely.
7314It took me over forty years to collect this palet of fun . So who cares if I just love savoring it.... My family doesn't care if I make them another anything. So I just get to collect and enjoy and have fun with my stash...if it never get use of well maybe it will go to someone who is thrilled to get it.... Right now I'm having fun using little scraps and saving the big pieces. . I love making something with the scraps. Anyone can go and buy the latest fabric at top dollar....but I love making it with finding the perfect little bits in my fabric.
20582Of course! I have a stash and certain pieces NOBODY touch! I have some I bought that .i might use for something in particular but, that day hasn't got here yet.
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38558Ok, this is my go to "excuse." I use it a lot! Think of your fabric and designs as art. You collect them just as others collect paintings or sculptures, or jewelry. You don't necessarily have to do anything with them, but you know they are there and keep them, just like someone might have a ruby in a safe that they never wear. We buy them for their beauty and the pleasure they give us. Sometimes I sit at my computer and go through and enjoy my lovely designs and sometimes pick one out to stitch maybe. So enjoy your stash of everything and stop feeling guilty!
If that doesn't work for you, you can also blame it on genetics. Men were hunters, women were gatherers. We gather things together at home and when we are not home, in our purses. We leave our houses, gather stuff up, and bring it home. Been doing it for millenium. We just can't help ourselves. It's in our genes. Works for me.
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by marjialexa
09 Aug 2012
I like your reasoning, it's in our genes! Can't fight genetics, hee hee hee.
6788This is so familiar. I do exactly the same. Maybe I am just a 'collector' of special pieces? But I love to hoard special things.hehehe.
21543Does this mean we are all Hoarders??? I've heard hoarders don't think they are hoarding when they have everything organized into neat little containers.....
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59631Yes, for me, too. I have a piece of silk brocade and a piece of white cotton with a colorful embroidered panel down the middle that my sister brought me from Taiwan about 40 years ago!! They are so fancy I have enjoyed looking at them and so different that I don't know what I would make out of them. And probably so weakened with age that they would not hold up to making clothing out of them. I still love looking at them!
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5431Oh ladies ! You are so sick ! In need of therapy ! Shameful ! Ok, thats what I say when I look in the mirror . For I am chiefmost as Paul once said .
7056Yes i do. I have some lighthouse fabric and some Owl fabric that I cant bring myself to cut it up. i just like to look at it. There is no hope for me is there. Hugs Joyce
15141I have just ironed and USED Batik and patterned pieces of craft cotton which have been in little rolls, sold in sets of 10, since before Layer Cakes were even thought of. I think it's because nice things were in short supply when I was growing up and everything had to have a use. It's nice to be able to collect and keep things. Jan
4131Yes, I have a collection that is not put to good use
yet. Also hoping to destash soon...
Hugs Bev
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140717yes i have stash dated back at least 40 odd years hang on this is bringing out age here,ha ha but next yeat i am vowing to download the stash and not buy .. the thing is that is one addiction i havent overcome yet but is next on the list slowly but surly i am getting through this crazy life of craft addiction and reducing my gunna list.
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by marjialexa
09 Aug 2012
And not only MY stash, but I have my MOM's stash, some dating back to the 1930's. Not reproduction '30's, real '30's. I keep planning to make wall hangings or something. And keep planning, and planning.... Do we need a therapist on board, hee hee h
by chenille
10 Aug 2012
Yep! I have my mom's stash too. She worked in a fabric store and brought home bolts of stuff!
by chenille
10 Aug 2012
Yep! I have my mom's stash too! She worked in a fabric store and brought home bolts of fabric!
763Yes i have. I have the 1st 1mtr of quilting fabric i bought before i got into sewing. Just cant seem to cut it up. Most likely the girls will find it in my stash one day and say "Now why would Mum want this fabric" :))
42046I do the very same thing! What in the world am I keeping it for? I need to make something for myself out of it! I totally understand :-)
596315290Well, yes, and I understand Jasann's problem with paper, too. I've recently discovered a few quilt patterns made from very large (10-12")squares, designed especially for large print fabrics. But, when you don't want to cut something into small pieces, the 12" square or rectangel isn't so bad, you usually get a few repeats. It's rather satisfying, you can have your cake & eat it too! I don't know what to do about the paper, though. I used to work in advertising, and one of my jobs was to specify paper for certain projects. We had a paper mill here in Erie, and I just adore paper. Handmade paper, especially. Somebody'll throw it out when I'm gone, I guess. Enjoy your fabric, however you use (or don't use) it. Hugs, Marji
33451Yes I can relater to this I cant cut up Pancy fabrics.............I have just about everyone that was ever made , but I have never found a quilt pattern I was happy to cut up my Pancy fabrics for . Cathy
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360660Yes, but I finially broke down and made up one piece I not sorry I did.
27358We do quilts at our church and I won't even tell them what I have (some of it), and yes if somebody needs polyester from 30 years ago, I have it.
41781Yes - and paper.... Just that feeling of once it's gone it's gone and I can't get any more...
I am so trying to get over that, having cleaned out my husbands grandmothers place when she went into the home, and found things she had had all her married life (maybe longer) still packed away nicely and she had never used or enjoyed them. It seemed such a waste.
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8431Yes... BUT! I had some pieces that I kept putting back because once I used it, it would be gone. But now that I have used it, I can look at it all the time. I'm much happier now that it is in something. I didn't think I would be. Great question.
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16302That is so funny. But the answer is yes. I have some of the reproduction 1930's fabric and I hate to even cut into it. I will use it though,gives me an excuse to buy more.
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by hightechgrammy
08 Aug 2012
Bev I love those fabrics. I keep collecting them and thinking eventually I'll make a quilt from them. They look soooo pretty on my shelf in the meantime :-)
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