First, I don't have that much - 3 large clear plastic bins - 1 stores kids themes in cotton and flannel and the other two store prints, solids, and flowers in mostly bright and happy colors. Luckily I make mostly small things which is why I don't have mega yardage. I have been collecting fabric for over 20 years and have decided I'm not sure it's a good idea.
At first I reasoned that if I don't buy this right now it won't be here next time. Usually true and also applies to books, patterns, and notions. (Ask my town library. This summer I donated 3 boxes of books.) But, as time rolls by, I look at some of those fabrics and wonder who I was to have actually selected, stood in line, and paid for what I simply had to have, as now it doesn't appeal to me. At all. My taste has changed, my print size has changed, my theme has changed, what I sew has changed. I have changed.
I don't know what to do with this fabric I don't like.
Some I have put in the goodwill box, some I donated to the nursing home, some I simply threw out. I posted on a board I visit and they said make vintage stuff. Well, I don't like vintage stuff. I like certain time periods like the Renaissance and the 1950's and 1960's, but none of this fabric fits those eras.
So I recommend unless you absolutely have to have something and are sure you will use it up within a year or two, only buy what you need for a project. You won't spend more $$$ than you should, take up more storage space than you need, or wonder what the heck you were thinking.
Having said all that, my local fabric store is having a truckload fabric sale. Sometimes it's not great fab but sometimes it really is. I know I need to stay away but my bureau drawer screws decided they had had enough and came unhinged just this morning and I have to go to that store, because it's a hardware store too, and buy some goopy stuff to put in the screw holes. When I walk in the door if I take a left and head toward the goopy stuff aisle I'll be all set. But they have it set up so you can't help but see the fabric when you walk in.
I wonder what I'll do.
Update: Walked in and went to the left. Spent 39 cents. Haven't done that since I bought penny candy as a kid. haha
At first I reasoned that if I don't buy this right now it won't be here next time. Usually true and also applies to books, patterns, and notions. (Ask my town library. This summer I donated 3 boxes of books.) But, as time rolls by, I look at some of those fabrics and wonder who I was to have actually selected, stood in line, and paid for what I simply had to have, as now it doesn't appeal to me. At all. My taste has changed, my print size has changed, my theme has changed, what I sew has changed. I have changed.
I don't know what to do with this fabric I don't like.
Some I have put in the goodwill box, some I donated to the nursing home, some I simply threw out. I posted on a board I visit and they said make vintage stuff. Well, I don't like vintage stuff. I like certain time periods like the Renaissance and the 1950's and 1960's, but none of this fabric fits those eras.
So I recommend unless you absolutely have to have something and are sure you will use it up within a year or two, only buy what you need for a project. You won't spend more $$$ than you should, take up more storage space than you need, or wonder what the heck you were thinking.
Having said all that, my local fabric store is having a truckload fabric sale. Sometimes it's not great fab but sometimes it really is. I know I need to stay away but my bureau drawer screws decided they had had enough and came unhinged just this morning and I have to go to that store, because it's a hardware store too, and buy some goopy stuff to put in the screw holes. When I walk in the door if I take a left and head toward the goopy stuff aisle I'll be all set. But they have it set up so you can't help but see the fabric when you walk in.
I wonder what I'll do.
Update: Walked in and went to the left. Spent 39 cents. Haven't done that since I bought penny candy as a kid. haha
