Just how much fabric do you have????

Posted by JPgirl on September 10, 2006, 1:52 pm

I spent a couple of hours last night refolding and sorting my stash,
between my 15 month old daughter ripping it off the shelves at will and
me rifling through it whenever I get a new project in mind it was a
mess.

Well Since it was so nice and neat I decided to count up just how much
I had in that 'little' stash of mine.

Turns out I have over 230 metres of fabric (insert googly eye emoticon
here), and that doesn't count the other 10-20 metres I have set aside
for projects on the go. I also have a big rubbermaid container FULL of
scraps. All of this has been collected in the past year!

I have them seperated into four groups, general prints, plaids,
childrens prints, and solids.

Last winter I was driving a snow plow and making some spare money,
whenever I got paid I would head down to the Fabricland clearance
centre and pick through their sale tables, which were often on
clearance themselves at 50% off. So I would pick up almost ANYTHING
that was resonably pretty and the proper fabric for quilting, cotton or
a cotton poly blend is ok with me as long as it doesn't feel or look
crappy I bought it!
Most of the yardage I have was bought anywhere from $1-3 a metre.

I need MORE!!!!!!

I think I have a problem ;)

Posted by ~KK in BC~ on September 10, 2006, 2:10 pm

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Huh? I see no problem! My motto is "have space need fabric" .... LOL

I have never actually measured what I have. That thought scares me :-|
I have piles of fabric all over the place, stashed in places like the
footstool and kids closest shelves and bins and bins of scraps. I have it in
baggies, and grocery bags and shoe boxes and roller cabinets. I have it on
my computer desk, on my dryer and around my sewing machine. ........
I do however have room for just a few more pieces over there in the corner
under that chair and over there beside the shoe rack and up there above the
curtain rods (just add shelves!).

The more I think about it, the more I think I really need the new directory,
could be time for some squishies to be set forth into the world to become
what they will when they grow up.

~KK in BC~

Posted by Val on September 10, 2006, 4:34 pm

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What has space got to do with anything relating to more fabric??

Confused,
Val

Posted by Val on September 10, 2006, 2:12 pm

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.....uuuuhhhhhhhh, mmmmmmmmmmm, errrrrrrrrrr............so what's the
problem? (insert glassy eyed look of confusion emoticon here) :))

Val

P.S. Thirty plus years ago I was the first woman in 5 western states to be a
full time Teamster driver of dump trucks and snow plows and pull down union
scale on my paychecks, .........YOU GO GIRL!! *little happy victory dance
dedicated to Tammy*

Posted by JPgirl on September 10, 2006, 2:18 pm

Val wrote:
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LOL yep, it was the first year I was happy when it snowed! If the snow
came.... I got more fabric!!!!!

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