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    Terri is offline Senior Member
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    Received an order from M* today....I knew it was coming, but I totally forgot what I had ordered (without referring to my saved e-mail confirmation). One layer cake (cream & sugar), yardage for borders & binding, 3 charm packs and a Jelly Roll!! I KNOW I had a specific pattern (one of Jenny's many tutorials) in mind for the cream & sugar, but cannot for the life of me remember which one. It was a tutorial that used that specific fabric line..... AND I have two more orders on the way from M*.

    On top of all of that, I went for my second one on one training on my new Janome 6600P today and came home w/2 FQ that I actually did need for a work in progress, plus a Giggles charm pack, 3--1/2 yard cuts of sewing themed fabric (because I want to make a wall hanging for my sewing room, yeah right...sometime in the next century!!), and one yard of fall fabric "just because I love it and had to have it".

    Is there a Fabric Lovers 12 step program somewhere?? I have enough fabric to last me for the next two years, if not longer!!! Is there any help for me?

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    You need to put a chain on your foot to your foot pedal and sew instead of shop.
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    Terri you must be kidding! ROFLOL Have you seen Jean's stash or Sandy's or most of ours! Part of being a quilter or sewist is having a stash that will out live you! lol
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    Only 2 years worth!!!
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    2 years? I need to live to at least 132 if I want to use all of mine and I just ordered another squishy yesterday.
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    Okay.....maybe now I don't feel quite as bad. And the idea of chaining my foot to my foot pedal just might be a VERY good idea!

    Went back to the tutorials and found the one I wanted....it's the Tea Cup quilt.

    Keep telling myself if I would just arrange my fabric differently, it wouldn't look like so much....but who am I kidding. And I am fairly certain that the "collection" will only grow!
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    Quote Originally Posted by HandsOffItsMine View Post
    Terri you must be kidding! ROFLOL Have you seen Jean's stash or Sandy's or most of ours! Part of being a quilter or sewist is having a stash that will out live you! lol
    No, I don't think I have......but I have seen several pics of different stashes, how they are arranged (or not) and do realize that mine hasn't taken on a life of its own....YET!!

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    I did some conservative calculations with my personal fabric stash.

    I have approximately 225 bolts of fabric. I am not counting the numerous small pieces of fabric in my scrap stash.

    Each bolt averages 25 yards of fabric

    This leaves 5625 yards of fabric.

    Now,

    If I do 3 hours of cutting and sewing for each yard of fabric, this will give me 16875 hours of quilting time.

    If I average 4 hours of sewing every day with my fabric, I will need 4219 days of sewing to go through my stash.

    If I sew every day (365 days in a year) it will take me 11.5 years of sewing to get through my stash of fabric.

    Enough to keep me busy for a while.
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    Ohhh myyyyy.......you have obviously been at this much longer than I have! You could open a small fabric store yourself!! In 11.5 yrs I will be just over 63 yrs old.....cannot even begin to wrap my mind around having/possessing/owning that much fabric. But I am guessing there is always room for one more piece.

    Quote Originally Posted by CottonPickinFabrics View Post
    I did some conservative calculations with my personal fabric stash.

    I have approximately 225 bolts of fabric. I am not counting the numerous small pieces of fabric in my scrap stash.

    Each bolt averages 25 yards of fabric

    This leaves 5625 yards of fabric.

    Now,

    If I do 3 hours of cutting and sewing for each yard of fabric, this will give me 16875 hours of quilting time.

    If I average 4 hours of sewing every day with my fabric, I will need 4219 days of sewing to go through my stash.

    If I sew every day (365 days in a year) it will take me 11.5 years of sewing to get through my stash of fabric.

    Enough to keep me busy for a while.

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    LOL you guys are all so funny

    I have a ton of fabric too - the last I counted I had enough for 17 big projects and many smaller ones.

    I also buy fabric and then forget what pattern I bought it for

    Is a nine patch part of a 12 step program??
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