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    tortugaquilter's Avatar tortugaquilter is offline Senior Member
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    Default OOPS, Stash no long fits allotted space

    I have spent so much time helping my quilt club this year and working on a couple of large hand quilting projects that I have not been able to dwindle down my stash. I have two bookcases, several project boxes, and some fabric drawers allotted for stash fabrics, and that is really all I want to have because I am working on decluttering my house. (Notice in picture how the top shelves still have space. I can't reach them. I have to wait to a son comes home on weekends if I need something from there. I don't get on step stools or ladders when I am by myself.)

    When I went to the quilt show last weekend I was really good and only bought one really beautiful kit to make a Kaffe Fassett Carnival S Block quilt and the backing fabric, two fat quarters, a 3 yard kit for a Christmas gift, a Happy Day gift (already given) and a Project Linus kit. All which fit in the project boxes I recently emptied.

    The problem came when I took my coupon for a free fat quarter over to Fabric Fanatics. A quilt shop totally dedicated to batiks, and my favorite of all LQS. They had grab bags of 40, 2.5 inch strips for $8.00. A $30.00 value. I bought four bags. When I got home and opened the bags (they were sealed with several rounds of packing tape) the strips were so beautiful I couldn't wait for them to open on Monday so I could call and purchase the rest of the bags. Turns out they had 4 left. So now here I sit with 320 strips and no place to put them. I am currently looking around the house for a nice basket. I figure I could wind the strips up into the basket until I am ready to use them.

    I am determined not to work on any of my projects until the group quilt is done. We still have 4 blocks, a row of leaves, and 1/3 of the inner border to finish hand quilting. Then I will bind it. My hope is to finish it before I leave on a cruise Sept. 1 so that when I come back all my quilting time is for ME. ME, ME, ME!!!! Well, really for me to make Christmas gifts, but that is for me since I like to do for others.
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    Last edited by tortugaquilter; August 16th, 2013 at 12:45 AM.
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