I get a lot of fabric.  Much more than absolutely necessary though I will never say it’s too much!  There’s always an elusive color that I need for a quilt and then I occasionally go overboard when needing that color.  In my case, it’s purple.  I’m not much of a purple person.  Love red, love blue – but the combination of those two is purple and I just have a hard time keeping purple in my stash. 

This past few months, I knew I needed to make a purple quilt – but, kept having quilter’s block (much like writer’s block) because I just do not care for purple.  I received a lovely stash of purples from AbbiMays.com, used what I needed of it for the blocks for this quilt I had to make…then needed more for the borders and binding.  You know what that means, right?  I now have a small stash of purple fabrics in my scrap pile.  Here’s one of the blocks I made for the purple quilt:

I’m also big on giving away my scraps – which is more than likely the reason I do not have purples in my stash because once I use them for a quilt, I give the remainder away.  I spend a lot of time making quilts for shop samples, my websites and special quilts for loved ones so do not have a lot of spare time to make scrappy quilts.  There’s one lady I give all of my string scraps to and another I give my non-string scraps to. 

But, I have found a great stashbuster solution to my quilting! 

I may receive a full fat quarter bundle from AbbiMays.com and Linda asks me to use a certain number of the fabrics in my quilt design, which means I have leftover fat quarters that are not going to go in a quilt.  Instead of tossing them in my stash, I use them to make two of the blocks for whatever design I’m working on.  So, I have designed a six-month block of the month quilt – and have more than double the fabric to make it.  Hence, I make two quilts!  That means I have twice as much quilted love to give away!  It’s the perfect solution for me!

How do you tame your stash?