Confession

As my pastor often says "Confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation".  Well, I've got a confession today.  I have too much fabric.  Way too much.  So much I don't know/remember all that I have.  That's not good.  I've been in a cleaning/purging mode lately in the house, and when I was out looking through all (10 boxes or so) of fabric for 'whites' I realized I have too much fabric.

Now, let me say its not entirely my fault.  When my mom died, I got her stash and added it to my stash, because I had already been apparel sewing.  Add in a year or so of working at Jo-Ann's (can you say discount?) and then venturing into the quilting world, I have too much fabric.

So what?, you ask.  Well, I think I've decided a couple of things.

One: Use stuff up.  Part of this will be to churn out as many charity quilts as possible.
Two: Give away/donate what I'm not going to positively use. For example, I found a pre-printed crib accessories piece of fabric.  I'm not interested in making them, and cutting them out for another project - probably not.
Three: Try really hard to not buy fabric unless it has a very specific purpose.  I thought about saying I wouldn't buy any more fabric, but then I'd just be lying :).

So to that end - I have been 'stash busting' like crazy.  Some random projects have been finished up.  Like these stockings:

I must have started them years ago when I made stockings for the whole family.  These didn't make the cut - in fact they weren't even completely assembled.  Now at least they are what they are supposed to be - where they end up, who knows, but at least they'll be out of my house!
More stash busting projects coming up this week.