I started sewing 5 years ago. At first I accepted any fabric people would give me because I was a beginner and would try anything. But as a result, I have a lot of things I’m never going to touch. Now that I know what I like to work with, I don’t have a use for them. But I hang on to it because I feel someday maybe... Something that helped was folding them the Marie Kondo way and NEVER stacking them. I can now seen my stash at a glance. That simple fact of seeing a row of fabric long enough to be a giant stops me from buying new materials. This year I only shopped my stash and have done a lot of things I was once excited about but forgot.
Love this. When I went through my stash late spring, I was knocked for six at the amount of expensive fabric I had hoarded ( about 10 boxes). I love the majority of my 'mini fabric shop', so I made the decision that I would no longer purchase fabric but sew my stash. I have slipped up once. I was so good at The Knitting and Stitching Show (Alexandra Palace); I purchased only 4 handcrafted buttons and one skein of yarn.
Oh my goodness. The beginning of the video looks like me: glasses and long blonde hair! I have the boxes and piles and stacks of fabric, too. Firstly, I highly recommend COMIC BOOK ARCHIVAL sheets on to which you can wrap fabrics. No bugs, no breakdown or stains from regular card board. Secondly, learn to quilt the smaller bits, synthetics into crazy quilts, and 100% cotton into traditional blocks. Yes, fabric lasts a lifetime, and I have a lifetime supply. I really need to stay out of the shops because my resistance to new purchases is low. I LOVE your idea of if you have to purchase x amount of yards, then also use x from stash so as to not increase amount stored. Thankk you.
I just found your video. Such good info. I did a video on getting rid of half my fabric stash. It was a huge project, but so freeing. I have since done another couple of mini de-stashings, and I've sewn a bunch from my stash. It really feels good. I had to come to terms with how and what I sew NOW, vs. what I used to do, and then get rid of fabrics that don't fit my current needs. I've started focusing much more on natural fabrics and less on novelty and synthetics. And I don't keep small scraps anymore. I'm much happier when it's time to start a new project because I can easily see what I have, and what I have is what I want.
10min ago I pulled out everything from my fabric hoarding closet. Then I got overwhelmed and came back to this video 😂 I’m a hobby sewist who hoards fabric scraps she got for free. I love recycling fabric scraps! But I want to start fresh in 2024. There will always be scraps...
I own textiles inherited from my great great grand aunts and that goes back to mid 1800s. Some will go to my great niece but I am slowly working through things but only if I need them. Took 22 years to decide exactly how to use the green Loden without wasting an inch but with the golden slik hood lining from a M+S petticoat bought for £1 in a charity shop the cloak is perfect for walking 2 miles back from piano lessons. Spent this summers evenings crocheting string bags for Yule pressies having had the 20p a ball at charity shop cotton yarn for 25 years. I hope to live long enough to use the remainder of my stashes and they live in tin trunks no plastic in my house thank Gods and Herbs keep the moths away.
This is exactly the video I wanted to see today. I'm just about to do a destash sale on a Facebook group. Very excited to send the fabric off to some people who will use it. I have a William Morris collection, and it's just that a collection. The idea was to make something out of it. But I already have projects that I want to make first, so instead of the fabric sitting in the cupboard I want it to go to someone who will use it now. My plan is to go to the second hand shop to buy men's shirts, and use the cotton for the quilts. I can buy 2-4 shirts at a time I then have to deconstruct them and turn them into something. Sounds like a better journey than just buying fabric. So excited. And I don't want to accumulate a stash. Lol
I did this recently with all my fabric when I was packing to move. I'm going to give it another pass when unpacking. It felt so good. I did keep some weird stuff but at least now I know it makes sense to me.
Hi. My embarrassing secret, if you are lucky enough to have an oversized garage; you will be shocked at how much fabric you can get. I have 40 bins of fabric, have barely sewed a thing and have already donated 11 big bags of fabric with tags still on them. It is overwhelming. I got the sewing bug and went nuts. I am now making a bunch of napkins for our home, learning to make garments and quilts. Oh, I have a very very ridiculous amount of patterns too. Have a nice day.
Fwiw i have just finished reducing my stash, for the third time. Right now i just have two 50 litre tubs. At some point i think i had 8... It was a brutal process, but now i have no regrets and value the space
Just found you….. have you been in My craft room, on display, in boxes, in bags. Need to get a grip of it. Love your honesty of the situation, costs, fast fashion, in and out theory. Now off to watch all other videos of yours ❤
Finally! Someone who has my exact same problem. Bin after bin. Shelf after shelf. Rolling cart after rolling cart. Collecting because you can't resist it, and just in case you need it for some project down the road. Thousands of dollars-worth of fabric sitting in the spare bedroom, along the wall in the dining room, stacked on garage shelves. It's a warehouse and now it's out of control. Oh, but wait... then there is the yarn. I, too, think about the people I leave behind when I die. At least most of it is in bins! 😜 Then I saw Karen Brown's 5 Ways to Use Ugly Fabric ruclips.net/video/RePQz1eN5Ko/видео.html and pretty soon I was buying fabric for THAT and not really using the fabric that I already had to make those ugly quilts. It's a hobby, habit, and an obsession that feeds a creative mind.
I'm always shocked that anyone throws away fabric or even thread ends. I save all mine and use them for scrap projects or, eventually, stuffing for soft toys or pillows or other things. I haven't had to buy stuffing in years and years.
But I am using all the weird little scraps. I'm making a crazy quilt. It is going very slowly because I have too many hobbies but it is going somewhere.
I have this problem, my stash is even bigger than yours! I have all these creative ideas and not enough time to make up the fabric into clothes. Not to mention disposal of scraps after cutting out :(
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! yes, you're right, I will never admit to it, but yes. I, too, fold my fabric Mari Kondo style, and it helps. Little did we know at the time that our stashes were soon to come in extremely handy in just a few months from the making of this video. It's kind of creepy to think about, actually.
Goodness girl!! It's a good thing we don't live near one another, we would not be a good influence on each other regarding fabric. Excellent points!!!!! It is not good, it is a problem! If you feel comfortable answering, where are you today? Have you replaced the fabric with something you like? or with something else? or are you over the "hoarding"?
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Thank goodness I'm not the only one!
This is one of the best discussions on the subject that I have ever come across.
I started sewing 5 years ago. At first I accepted any fabric people would give me because I was a beginner and would try anything. But as a result, I have a lot of things I’m never going to touch. Now that I know what I like to work with, I don’t have a use for them. But I hang on to it because I feel someday maybe... Something that helped was folding them the Marie Kondo way and NEVER stacking them. I can now seen my stash at a glance. That simple fact of seeing a row of fabric long enough to be a giant stops me from buying new materials. This year I only shopped my stash and have done a lot of things I was once excited about but forgot.
thanks for sharing, has anything changed for you
Love this. When I went through my stash late spring, I was knocked for six at the amount of expensive fabric I had hoarded ( about 10 boxes).
I love the majority of my 'mini fabric shop', so I made the decision that I would no longer purchase fabric but sew my stash.
I have slipped up once.
I was so good at The Knitting and Stitching Show (Alexandra Palace); I purchased only 4 handcrafted buttons and one skein of yarn.
I’ve got you beat, I could open my own store
Lol. Same!
Oh my goodness. The beginning of the video looks like me: glasses and long blonde hair! I have the boxes and piles and stacks of fabric, too. Firstly, I highly recommend COMIC BOOK ARCHIVAL sheets on to which you can wrap fabrics. No bugs, no breakdown or stains from regular card board. Secondly, learn to quilt the smaller bits, synthetics into crazy quilts, and 100% cotton into traditional blocks. Yes, fabric lasts a lifetime, and I have a lifetime supply. I really need to stay out of the shops because my resistance to new purchases is low. I LOVE your idea of if you have to purchase x amount of yards, then also use x from stash so as to not increase amount stored. Thankk you.
I just found your video. Such good info. I did a video on getting rid of half my fabric stash. It was a huge project, but so freeing. I have since done another couple of mini de-stashings, and I've sewn a bunch from my stash. It really feels good. I had to come to terms with how and what I sew NOW, vs. what I used to do, and then get rid of fabrics that don't fit my current needs. I've started focusing much more on natural fabrics and less on novelty and synthetics. And I don't keep small scraps anymore. I'm much happier when it's time to start a new project because I can easily see what I have, and what I have is what I want.
10min ago I pulled out everything from my fabric hoarding closet. Then I got overwhelmed and came back to this video 😂
I’m a hobby sewist who hoards fabric scraps she got for free. I love recycling fabric scraps! But I want to start fresh in 2024. There will always be scraps...
I own textiles inherited from my great great grand aunts and that goes back to mid 1800s. Some will go to my great niece but I am slowly working through things but only if I need them. Took 22 years to decide exactly how to use the green Loden without wasting an inch but with the golden slik hood lining from a M+S petticoat bought for £1 in a charity shop the cloak is perfect for walking 2 miles back from piano lessons. Spent this summers evenings crocheting string bags for Yule pressies having had the 20p a ball at charity shop cotton yarn for 25 years. I hope to live long enough to use the remainder of my stashes and they live in tin trunks no plastic in my house thank Gods and Herbs keep the moths away.
This is exactly the video I wanted to see today. I'm just about to do a destash sale on a Facebook group. Very excited to send the fabric off to some people who will use it. I have a William Morris collection, and it's just that a collection. The idea was to make something out of it. But I already have projects that I want to make first, so instead of the fabric sitting in the cupboard I want it to go to someone who will use it now. My plan is to go to the second hand shop to buy men's shirts, and use the cotton for the quilts. I can buy 2-4 shirts at a time I then have to deconstruct them and turn them into something. Sounds like a better journey than just buying fabric. So excited. And I don't want to accumulate a stash. Lol
I did this recently with all my fabric when I was packing to move. I'm going to give it another pass when unpacking. It felt so good. I did keep some weird stuff but at least now I know it makes sense to me.
Hi. My embarrassing secret, if you are lucky enough to have an oversized garage; you will be shocked at how much fabric you can get. I have 40 bins of fabric, have barely sewed a thing and have already donated 11 big bags of fabric with tags still on them. It is overwhelming. I got the sewing bug and went nuts. I am now making a bunch of napkins for our home, learning to make garments and quilts. Oh, I have a very very ridiculous amount of patterns too. Have a nice day.
Fwiw i have just finished reducing my stash, for the third time. Right now i just have two 50 litre tubs. At some point i think i had 8... It was a brutal process, but now i have no regrets and value the space
Just found you….. have you been in
My craft room, on display, in boxes, in bags. Need to get a grip of it.
Love your honesty of the situation, costs, fast fashion, in and out theory.
Now off to watch all other videos of yours ❤
I thought it was just me .lol !
The wasted space and money is what gets to me. I buy fabric and yarn with plans for them but I never get around to it.
Finally! Someone who has my exact same problem. Bin after bin. Shelf after shelf. Rolling cart after rolling cart. Collecting because you can't resist it, and just in case you need it for some project down the road. Thousands of dollars-worth of fabric sitting in the spare bedroom, along the wall in the dining room, stacked on garage shelves. It's a warehouse and now it's out of control. Oh, but wait... then there is the yarn. I, too, think about the people I leave behind when I die. At least most of it is in bins! 😜 Then I saw Karen Brown's 5 Ways to Use Ugly Fabric ruclips.net/video/RePQz1eN5Ko/видео.html and pretty soon I was buying fabric for THAT and not really using the fabric that I already had to make those ugly quilts. It's a hobby, habit, and an obsession that feeds a creative mind.
I'm always shocked that anyone throws away fabric or even thread ends. I save all mine and use them for scrap projects or, eventually, stuffing for soft toys or pillows or other things. I haven't had to buy stuffing in years and years.
But I am using all the weird little scraps. I'm making a crazy quilt. It is going very slowly because I have too many hobbies but it is going somewhere.
I have this problem, my stash is even bigger than yours! I have all these creative ideas and not enough time to make up the fabric into clothes. Not to mention disposal of scraps after cutting out :(
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! yes, you're right, I will never admit to it, but yes. I, too, fold my fabric Mari Kondo style, and it helps. Little did we know at the time that our stashes were soon to come in extremely handy in just a few months from the making of this video. It's kind of creepy to think about, actually.
Goodness girl!! It's a good thing we don't live near one another, we would not be a good influence on each other regarding fabric. Excellent points!!!!! It is not good, it is a problem! If you feel comfortable answering, where are you today? Have you replaced the fabric with something you like? or with something else? or are you over the "hoarding"?
Thought l would organize my fabrics unawars of how much i actually had.
lolol now quadruple it and that my collection :)
Ahhh LARPers
also thank you this was needed
what about rhe thimgs on the floor behind uou?