How many of you have uttered these phrases?
"I have so much fabric at home, I can't buy any more fabric!"
"I need to finish some of the stuff I have at home, so I can go out and buy more."
"I just inherited a huge stash from my (whoever) and I just don't know what to do with it all."
Don't tell me you've never said at least one of these phrases, I've heard you. I work at Interquilten and these are the three things I hear most often and usually it's an excuse not to buy any more fabric from our shop.
So let me tell you something about the fabric industry once and for all.
Number one, no matter how much you love the fabric that you are buying right now, later on down the road there will be another one that you like better.
Number two, the reason you need to buy more fabric is because the fabric in your stash is: (choose however many apply)
__ Too Old
__ Too Ugly
__ Too Bright
__ Too Dull
__ Just not right
__ Just tired of looking at it
__ Doesn't fit current project needs
__ Not this one in my hand right now
Number three, face it right now and take the pledge: You are addicted to buying fabric and your quilting has become unmanageable. You need a power greater than yourself to restore you to quilting sanity.
Well, I'm here. I've been there, I've done that, I've bought the T-shirt. (It's pink and it has a bunch of ladies in a car with fabric flags flying out the window and it says, "Road Trip".)
So your first assignment from me, your higher power.
Go through your fabric stash and pull out all the old and ugly fabric that is over ten years old and that you are tired of looking at. Put it in a box. That's all. Next week I'll tell you what to do about it.
1 comment:
I don't have too much fabric but I definitely have too much stuff. Now if you consider clothing as fabric then I am guilty.
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