Wannabut Fabric Lot Part II

The surprises kept coming out of the box of fabric I thrifted for my friend's quilting class. This pile of dark blue velveteen scraps equals about a yard, and as she only needs quilting cottons gave it to me for my art quilting.

I'm also keeping all the cross stitch pieces we found mixed in with the fabric. The needlework is fabulous, and I really can't believe someone donated such pretty pieces.

A sampler with lambs, bunnies and beautiful colors.

There was even a Santa sampler. I'm going to frame and hang the samplers, and incorporate the smaller pieces in my calendar quilting project for next year.

Finally we hauled out four yards of 90" wide cram colored canvas, which I will also be keeping as it's too heavy for my friend's needs. To make up the different I let her raid my yardage stash, and she now has enough fabric to supply two classes.

I'm not going to try to put a value on this lot, as the hand stitched pieces to me are priceless. I can tell you that the Spoonflower fabrics retail for $34.00 per yard, which will give you a ballpark idea of how valuable it is. I paid $15.99 for the entire lot, which came in well under my friend's $20.00 budget.

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Other Stashes

Along with clearing out the spare bedroom and tidying my office and our guest bedroom, I decided to reorganize some of my stashes. This is all the yarn I have on hand, sorted by color. It looks like a lot, but lately I've been using up a minimum of half a bin every month, so this is approximately a year's supply. All of my solid color cotton perle thread. I go through a lot of this every year, too. I need a container in which I can fit all of it together, but I haven't found the right one yet. I won't show you all of my fabric -- I'm still reorganizing this stash -- but I went through everything and donated two bins of fabric I won't need to the local quilter's guild.

In Progress

I promised myself I would show you the good, bad and ugly of my cleaning this year. This is what it looks like when you dump thirty years' worth of stashed fabric on the floor -- and oy, what a pain in the butt to pick up again! This is what it looks like after it's been sorted, folded and placed in containers, which took me about a week. Now the hard part is to downsize my stash by at least half, I think (that's my goal, anyway.) I've already e-mailed the president of the local quilting guild, a local friend who is a quilter, and a public school art teacher I know to see if I can donate some of the excess to them. The rest will go to Goodwill. Already I've reduced my vintage textiles from two bins to one, and my scraps from three bins to one. It's probably the hardest clean-out I've done, which is why I saved it until last. I know I have too much fabric, more than I can use in my lifetime -- but at the same time, I love it. So I have to...

Downsizing

This was my fabric stash once I sorted everything -- 22 full bins. I spent a day taking out and boxing up what I could part with, with the goal of trying to reduce it by half, so I'd have 11 bins. I was very strict with myself, and removed everything that for one reason or another I was sure I wouldn't be able to use. This is what I ended up with -- 12 bins of fabric that I'm keeping. It's not quite half, but close enough. Half of what I took out went to a local quilter friend, a school and Goodwill. These four tightly-packed bins will be going to the local quilting guild once I make arrangements with them for a drop-off place. I am relieved and a little sad and now determined to control my impulses to thrift more fabric. I don't want to do this again, so until I use up six bins, I can't for any reason bring any new fabric into the house.

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