Comments on: Do You Love Your Stash?

By: Lydia

Lydia — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:35:31 +0000

Oh, yes, I absolutely love my stash! Even the fabrics that I may not love on their own, always seem to work somewhere when I’m pulling things. I’ve been getting more into scrap quilting lately, which makes it easier to love everything, I admit. But I love it all anyway, and can just about always pull what I need for a project all from stash.

If my stash were to vanish, and I could replace it at no cost, the end result would look very much like my current stash does. I’d have a lot of variety — Thimbleberries (but the older stuff more than what she’s designing now), 30s repros, CW repros, homespuns, stripes, dots, tone-on-tone textural prints, some novelty prints (mostly cats and sewing notions), hand-dyes (my own and others’), batiks, lots of Modas, some brights…

If I were to buy something that’s not in my stash right now? I’d say I’d add a bit more pink and purple to my stash. I don’t really like pink, but sometimes need it and almost inevitably have to shop for it. I’m not crazy about purple, but love green so I often use purple. Yet my stash doesn’t have much of it, so I’d buy more of that as well. Just to make my stash a bit more complete and usable.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:04:43 +0000

Your name isn’t a clickable link, so I don’t know how to e-mail you — but if you should get this, I absolutely LOVE scraps, and would be most happy to give yours a good home, in lovely, scrappy quilts. I’ll pay you for postage too, of course. I’m at thepoch[at]aol[dot]com (take out the brackets and replace those words “at” and “dot” with the appropriate symbols). Thanks! — Lydia

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:55:05 +0000

These are good questions!
I love my stash. There is not too much I would do different, as I LOVE scrap quilts, (and Judy’s quilts!) so I want to use it ALL. I have tons of yardage, and FQs (30′s, CW, Novelties) in the hope to make those one fabric block scrap projects. I think I would replace it with more t on t’s, but also have a large variety of everything, to do everything. (Until I need that ONE piece I dont have!) My sister in law says they are “old lady fabrics”-really? I think she just likes batiks.
I often collect things in my stash that I am tired of looking at, and donate it to a charity, but then I feel like I should get fabrics that coordinate, and then I think-”well, I could make this quilt!” and find it hard to give away (but do) which is rather weird. This bond we have with fabric is sometimes scary….

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:47:12 +0000

Most of my stash is made up of scrap bags from thrift stores. I can’t say that I love it all, but it’s allowed me to make quite a few quilts that I absolutely adore!

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:39:12 +0000

While I have fabrics in my stash that I probably wouldn’t buy again they do work in my scrap quilts so I have to say I’m pretty happy. It works for the kind of quilting I do and it’s easy for me to make quilts completely from stash.

I got my book today and LOVE it! I’m packing for Los Cabos tonight but once I’m done, I’m going to make a cup of tea and sit down and read through it again.