Does anyone buy too much fabric/ craft items

List of wishes with your will, then.

That'll concentrate their minds.

Great idea! 'If you lot don't behave yourselves, I'll leave you my yarn😈'

Doodledog

Callistemon21

Doodledog

For me it’s yarn, not fabric, but even though I got rid of huge amounts of it before Christmas there is a lot left. The trouble is that I keep seeing unmissable pretties before knitting up my SAPLE (Stash Above Probable Life Expectancy), so I feel like the princess in Rumplestiltskin. My children aren’t interested in my yarn, and Mr D would have no idea what was worth selling and what wasn’t, so it will go in a skip one day, I’m sure.

Label the bags/boxes with instructions eg send to charity shop/ send to Knit 'n' Natter at church hall.

People are always glad of yarn to knit blankets and other items for charity.

Thanks, but I'm not planning on leaving it behind for a while yet 😂.

😁😁😁

List of wishes with your will, then.

That'll concentrate their minds.

My son and daughter in law who are in their 40s love the hoodies as I find the most unusual fabrics.
My son in law likes knee length pyjama/ loungewear bottoms nice bright colours.
My daughter aprons

Callistemon21

Doodledog

For me it’s yarn, not fabric, but even though I got rid of huge amounts of it before Christmas there is a lot left. The trouble is that I keep seeing unmissable pretties before knitting up my SAPLE (Stash Above Probable Life Expectancy), so I feel like the princess in Rumplestiltskin. My children aren’t interested in my yarn, and Mr D would have no idea what was worth selling and what wasn’t, so it will go in a skip one day, I’m sure.

Label the bags/boxes with instructions eg send to charity shop/ send to Knit 'n' Natter at church hall.

People are always glad of yarn to knit blankets and other items for charity.

Thanks, but I'm not planning on leaving it behind for a while yet 😂.

Now that we have admitted to fabric/yarn hoarding. What are your favourite things to make for family/ friends and what do people like you to make for them as gifts

Today I am moving 12 large storage boxes (think a double height of those under-bed boxes) each full of fabric into storage where it will remain for one month whilst I have a relative staying. I had so much fabric it filled the guest room and I had to remove the bed. Once my brother leaves I will bring it all back. I have a wonderful selection with nothing less than 3 metres long by usually 55/60 inch wide, What to do next !!

Doodledog

For me it’s yarn, not fabric, but even though I got rid of huge amounts of it before Christmas there is a lot left. The trouble is that I keep seeing unmissable pretties before knitting up my SAPLE (Stash Above Probable Life Expectancy), so I feel like the princess in Rumplestiltskin. My children aren’t interested in my yarn, and Mr D would have no idea what was worth selling and what wasn’t, so it will go in a skip one day, I’m sure.

Label the bags/boxes with instructions eg send to charity shop/ send to Knit 'n' Natter at church hall.

People are always glad of yarn to knit blankets and other items for charity.

I make journals and print things on mugs so i have lots of stuff, lots and lots of stuff. So much stuff that I think my new hobby is collecting craft supplies. Is that a legitimate hobby do you think ? I feel sorry for my kids who will have to sort all this stuff when I die 😂

For me it’s yarn, not fabric, but even though I got rid of huge amounts of it before Christmas there is a lot left. The trouble is that I keep seeing unmissable pretties before knitting up my SAPLE (Stash Above Probable Life Expectancy), so I feel like the princess in Rumplestiltskin. My children aren’t interested in my yarn, and Mr D would have no idea what was worth selling and what wasn’t, so it will go in a skip one day, I’m sure.

Me too. I have stopped buying and started making presents out of the lovely fabrics.
Using up the beautiful card I have collected over the last few years, making bunting, cards, little projects for next door's girls to stick together.

I've just filled a bag for someone who is learning to crochet.

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.

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 😁

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.

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

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.....

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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.....

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Yep, this is me 🙄

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!