New Challenge to Help With My Fabric Addiction

Fabric happens to be a love of mine... clear back to the age of twelve. That is when I first learned to sew. It wasn't until later years... in my twenties ... that I began to become obsessed with it. At that time I was simply sewing all of my family's clothing and loving it.  I have always loved to create! It wasn't until the year 2000 that I took up quilting and started my first quilt.

This is it... my 30's sampler quilt

taught to me by my dear friend Kim.

I'll never forget my first trip to the quilt shops. I came home with a lot of beautiful fabric... next to dead broke... and loving every minute of it! I took the fabric... put it in the closet and that was the end of it. I started to do this over and over again with nothing much being made from it. All of a sudden I had acquired quite a large stash and I was running out of room. THAT is when I knew I had a PROBLEM!

This is just my 30's fabrics or what I dared to show you!

Over the years I must tell you... it hasn't gotten any better... just increasingly worse. 

Perfect example... yesterday, my friend Susann came over and we decided to run up town for a back to my newest little Schnibbles pattern and we both came home with a whole new fabric line... enough to build a whole quilt. I said to her... "When is this going to end!" We are now known to each other as "Partners in Crime"! We just laughed and realized... we are both in trouble!

In fact... my sweet friend Judi has commented to me and others that if I was a drug dealer... we would all be in trouble. LOL!
(Oh... be sure to visit her blog now because she recently did the post with the wonderful food that I was telling you about that we had at our retreat.  And if you don't mind... please leave Judi a comment too so she will keep posting her YUMMY food for us!)

So let me tell you first of all.... Thanks for all of your wonderful comments from my last post. I realize from them all that I really am NOT the only one! (I'm smiling right now!)

We all seem to love the gorgeous fabrics that line the shelves at our wonderful quilt shops and I am thankful for that. I think that is how it should be! We must be able to go in and buy something new from the latest line to help keep our interest and creativity alive and the industry well stocked. 

But... now here is the clincher... we must try to eliminate some of the wonderful stuff we have at home. My thought the other day was... how are we going to do this? Then my next thought was... there must be a reason or challenge to help us want to use up some of our stash.

That's when I came up with the idea of forming a new blog... STASH MANICURE!

The idea behind this blog is to help give you a reason or challenge to eliminate some of your stash. You may ask... "Who would want to do this?" Well, the answer is... we all probably do at one time or another! The reason... maybe so we can feel a little less guilty about bringing home more new fabric every time we go to the fabric store. After all... it might be that all we needed was a simple fat quarter and we ended up coming home having spent the entire week's grocery allowance and then some. It could also be that... we might want to make space for the new fabric we have just purchased but we have run out of room in the house to put any more... except for the crawl space under the front porch or in the attic! Sound familiar?

What ever the reason... let's get started today on diminishing our fabric stashes!

Moto... Use some up... make room for more!

If you are interested in having a little challenge to help use some of your stash that you already have on hand... then please follow this link to Stash Manicure or go to the right side of my blog that says... Stash Manicure Challenge and click on my button to learn all about it.

This is going to be fun! The prize drawings that await you will be worth the challenge!