Does anyone buy too much fabric/ craft items

I used to buy both fabrics and knitting wool, just because I thought they looked nice and I was sure that I would use them.

I have managed to stop doing so, and am using what I have, plus I have just put some of the bigger nicer pieces of material into the collection of clothes etc. a local tranport firm will drive to the Ukraine with later this month.

Happy to be a member of this club. Have you tried teaching a GGD to crochet via Skype.? .

I had to have a complete clearout last year as due to move to a small house with no storage (1 tiny cupboard) i was amazed how much extra wool i'd accumulated but as my daughter had started to crochet and makes loads of different stuff i had no problem- i donated quite bit to her- also i gave a bit to charity shop and still had leftover chunky wool so i saved just a few balls of it as i knit blankets- which are very popular with my grandchilren, older or younger.They love a 'nanablanket'🥰🧶

Well... I prefer to think of it as my crafting output being slower than incoming supplies...
Not fabric so much, but supplies for the many crafts I am obsessed with/enjoy (interchangeable terms, you understand).
Probably the most bulky are a number of lace maker's pillows I seem to have acquired but of course they all have their purpose!
When we eventually get our house rearranged and decorated, I am hopeful of taking over a spare bedroom as a craft room, complete with storage. Until then....

A few years ago, I thought I might sell some of the stuff I made so purchased in anticipation of that. It is a standing joke in our family that I didn't have an outlet, I just had an inlet. Fortunately, I have a very understanding husband who just does a bit of eye rolling when things come through the door.

That’s me Supertinny. I’ve loads of fabric and wool. I really must pull my finger out and start creating instead of buying 😄

SuperTinny-😅🤣😁 I believe you are right!

Ahh yes, I’ve found my people 😃 I have far too many fabrics, but I do sew (I have a friend who buys fabric, but rarely really makes anything). I usually make one garment/item each week. I sew for my husband as well as for myself and also dog coats and gifts. I do feel a little overwhelmed by my fabric stash though.

I recommend the app StashHub. Take a look. It’s brilliant!

This is my fabric stash. I thought I had loads more than this before I had a blitz of my sewing room. I'm making up the fabric that's in front of the storage unit right now. The blue is a polycotton I'll be using today to line a skirt I've already cut out. The biscuit coloured fabric is 100% cotton and will be a pair of True Bias Lander pants.

If you're really serious about having too much there's a thriving 'destash' movement on social media e.g. Instagram and FB. Just search destash. Someone will buy your excess fabric but you have to be able to confirm the fabric type and yardage/metre-age and offer it at a realistic price. Include postage and packing too. You could also offer it to charities. Just search 'donate fabric'.

What pleasure to find there are others like me. So lovely not to feel alone in my fabric hoarding addiction. Good news is I have stopped! But what about the accumulated stashes of the stuff looking at me and laughing at my recklessness. But hey perhaps I will live to be 200 and by then I will have used it all up. So there’s hope . And what with the inflation …. ah the savings I’ll make.

I have loads of large rolls of potential curtain fabrics as I buy anything 5m+ in the sales and can always run up a pair of curtains, all I would need to buy is some lining. My main hobby is making rag rugs, my favourite fabric old t-shirts, so I have several bags of castoffs and charity shop finds in every colour. I don't think it's too OTT but I have a spare room that doubles as storage. It's lovely to work with a nice fabric.

I have a yarn stash! When I retired, fifteen years ago, I told the staff that I’d need to live long enough to use it all. I haven’t succeeded, though I’m still knitting and crocheting! The trouble is, it’s still tempting to buy more! Strangely, it’s one of the things that I don’t feel guilty about spending money on. Some years ago, the woman who ran the local yarn shop told me that when she’d asked her husband to take certain suitcases down from the loft, he asked where she was planning for them to go. She had to admit that she only wanted to have a look through her yarn stash. He’d no idea the extent of it!

Yep, this is me 🙄

I have loads of wool for knitting/crochet. Occasionally I take some to the charity shop but I often regret it afterwards

Astitchintime

I have managed to curb my enthusiasm to buy more fabric and I am now concentrating on using up most of my current stash to make. various projects, clothing, bags, etc.

My problem is 'what to do with. all the leftover scraps'? and I would welcome any suggestions on this. I am referring to things like the remainder of a length of cloth after cutting out a garment or those smaller bits from a fat quarter which 'might come in handy' but never, ever do.
What do you all do with your scraps please?

Have you thought of string quilts and crumb quilts (start small, try cushion covers?).
www.google.co.uk/search?q=string+quilts+images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

We all have our vices. Fabric is warm, it’s cozy, colorful. It presents itself to a myriad of opportunities. It looks so lovely stacked up in the store - so I buy it with good intentions of a new project. Can’t resist buying more - it brings me great pleasure. Now I’m running out of room to store. Can I afford to buy more for my addiction? Will my spouse get on me for erroneous spending.

I’ve had to analyze my own hobby addictions. I came to these conclusions:
1) start working and stop spending
2) your children don’t really want your stuff
3) you can only make so many gifts for family, friends
4) if you don’t want to donate then try to sell instead; you will get a fraction of what you paid
5) or go into business and start selling on Etsy or bazaars, or collectives

My “addiction” came to an end when I got divorced, which was an emotional trauma (of course!) When I looked at that pile of stuff, it meant nothing to me. I donated to my church women’s craft circle.

In time I became the head of that circle and created a Holiday Harvest bazaar for Christmas sales.
Some things never cease.

A lifetime of hoarding things that might be useful meant I had nice selection of fabric when covid hit and masks were unobtainable. I must have made a couple hundred. I also made some cloth bags with several pockets that velco'ed over a zimmer frame. As for yarn? I was not a great knitter but was surprised at stash of wool. So with covid time at home, I took up crochet (thanks to Youtube tutorials) and made up some rugs and baby blankets.

Knitting wool. I looked at it all the other day and thought really must try and use some of this up before I die!

I have ten, 51 litre storage boxes of knitting wool, needles, patterns etc. in the laundry room. I knitted our grandsons about 100 jumpers when they were little and have lots of wool left.

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Yarn.
I'm a constant crocheter, it really helps my mental health.

This is my current stash, sbout 50% of what it was a year ago. Some I've used up for gifts or charity projects, some I've donated to our common room craft cupboards, some I've given directly to charity. I'm quite proud of getting it into "just" 2 cupboards!!

Ps, here's my current project, just over half way done.....

Doesn't everyone who loves crafts do this?
I have boxes of yarn as my main loves are knitting and crochet.
However. I also dress make, sew , etc etc....and don't start me or books.
Don't want I can possibly live long enough to use or read every....I have a garden, an allotment and 4 grown up kids with their kids to fill my time.
I also work.....

Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy (Sable) - I am guilty with wool !

Baskets are stuffed with yarn. Middle drawers full of fabrics for patchwork projects, mostly quilts for the Linus group. Small drawers - cross stitch and general crafty bits. Empty shelves at top, now full of craft books and Nigel Slater books. I was fed up of keeping all my stuff behind sofas etc so I got rid of one of the single beds from the spare bedroom and ordered this set up from Ikea. Should have done it years ago.

AlwaysSmiling

I have ten, 51 litre storage boxes of knitting wool, needles, patterns etc. in the laundry room. I knitted our grandsons about 100 jumpers when they were little and have lots of wool left.

Oh thank you, I feel better now 😁

I am that person. I have too much knitting yarn. If I live to be 100 I will have difficulty using it all. I also have a cupboard full and overflowing of card and scrapbooking materials that will never be used.