Saturday, 12 January 2013

Sew Your Stash Thin

sew your stash thin 2013

One of my goals for 2013 is to get my fabric stash under control. After some discussion with some other online friends with a common goal, we decided to have a stash-buster-along, hosted by AJ, over at AJ's Antics.

I am not one to join in with "fabric bans", if I need want fabric for something, I will buy it. This is not the idea of the challenge. The idea is to use it. Use what we buy, use what we have in the stash, use MORE fabric than we buy. Fabric OUT is only fabric that is used in completed projects. Fabric IN is any fabric that crosses the threshold in 2013. Hopefully by the end of the year, this will mean there is LESS fabric in the stash.

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So anyway, I signed up and would you believe it, the VERY NEXT WORKING DAY, an unexpected parcel arrived from my mother-in-law. It was FULL of fabric! Almost 14 metres of fabric! Yesterday I came home with almost 9 metres of 150cm wide curtain lining fabric from Spotlight for Amélie's curtains. So far this year, all I have completed is 10 pairs of underpants for Amélie. I guess I had better get sewing!!!


Photobucket    After some measuring, these are my estimates:   
          • Fabric from my mother in law (+55FQs)
          • Curtain lining (+48FQs)
          • Amélies undies (-7FQs)
    Total : +96 Fat Quarters
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11 comments:

  1. Vireya12 January 2013 at 19:50

    So 12 days in and you have 24 metres more fabric than you started with? You better get sewing! (Or you could end up with 730 more metres in stash by the end of the year.)

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    1. Unknown12 January 2013 at 22:04

      Exactly! If you don't hear from me, I'm probably buried under a pile of fabric somewhere.

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  2. Amy's Crafty Shenanigans12 January 2013 at 22:11

    What a fun problem to have -- too much fabric!!!

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    1. Unknown12 January 2013 at 22:26

      What would be better, would be more hours in the day to spend with it all.

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  3. Magda12 January 2013 at 22:22

    oh, I've been just thinking about that. Not only with fabric but other garments too. I think I'll join! =D

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    1. Unknown13 January 2013 at 20:00

      Do you mean more out of the wardrobe than into it?

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  4. MsMidge13 January 2013 at 17:20

    Excuse me whilst I hyperventilate.....just. can't. do. it. lol

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    1. Unknown13 January 2013 at 20:01

      You can still buy more fabric, you just have to use more than you buy! You can do it! Otherwise we may lose you in a big pile of fabric too.

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    2. Unknown13 January 2013 at 20:02

      (and wouldn't that be a great way to go?)

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  5. Jo16 January 2013 at 09:25

    Good plan, I am trying the same thing. No buying and lots of sewing!!

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    1. Unknown19 January 2013 at 15:18

      I still fully intend to buy fabric. Just maybe not as much of it. If there is fabric I really "must have" I need to have a plan for it and actually put that plan into action. There are also going to be projects that are going to require buying more fabric, so if I need it to finish something, then it will still be reducing my stash. But yes, definitely less shopping, more sewing!

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