There has been a flurry of activity at my house, but in the end I can’t decide if it’s a net positive or not. In the Use Your Scraps Craftalong, someone introduced the idea of improv quilting and I went DEEP down the rabbit hole.
Good things that came out of this: I sorted all of my fabrics by use (quilting, bag making, clothing), and each of them now has a limit - clothing fabrics have to fit in the closet, each other kind has to fit in a bin, and all the scraps are sorted. I started using some of my cotton fabric strips that I used to use to make fabric twine for string quilting.
Bad things that came out of this: I think I’m up to 6 fat quarters that I bought to fill in gaps in these new projects, since I had very little quilting fabric on hand, and I ended up with 5 yards of red tag clothing fabric as a result of one of those trips. I also ended up looking at buying scraps by the pound on Etsy…but I didn’t buy any, that’s good, right? Sigh. So it’s definitely net stash in, but hopefully all the sorting and new eye on my fabrics will help me use them up?
I might be a hopeless case, guys.