Destashing
06-23-2011, 07:53 AM
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Dear Quilting Sisters,
As much as I love your destashing sales, I feel I must warn you. Fabric is at an all time high cost and will only go higher. LQS's are saying new invoices are $15 and up per yd. I think we need to be keeping all the fabric we can unless, of course, you have unlimited funds.
As much as I love your destashing sales, I feel I must warn you. Fabric is at an all time high cost and will only go higher. LQS's are saying new invoices are $15 and up per yd. I think we need to be keeping all the fabric we can unless, of course, you have unlimited funds.
06-23-2011, 08:12 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Ontario Canada
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Thanks for the reminder! I was getting overwhelmed with the number of quilt kits I have made up and not started yet. Now I will just allow them to be here and not buy anything new when the prices are so high.......Think of the savings!!!!!
06-23-2011, 08:26 AM
#6
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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De-stash...that word is not in my vocabulary! I went shopping yesterday, looking for a border fabric for a mystery BOM I am working on, and bought fabric at Hancock's, Hobby Lobby, Joanns and a local LQS. Had a 40% coupon at Hancock's, a 50% coupon at Joanns, a 40% coupon at Hobby Lobby and my coupon book was full for the LQS so got two yards of beautiful batik for just $2.24, the tax. Good shopping day!
06-23-2011, 08:42 AM
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Location: South Dakota
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When fabric get too expensive we will just have to trade with each other for what we need. I'm in good shape stashwise. I can make quilts for years on what I have. Especially since I do scrap quilts. Just bought backings for at least 5 quilts. And I have UFOs to finish.
06-23-2011, 08:58 AM
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I appreciate the concerns over prices going up, but here is my take on de-stashing. I have fabrics that I buy because I love them. Then I can find nothing that I like to go with them. Or I buy a cute children's print and no longer have anyone of that age to make anything for. I don't do scrappy. But I can't stand to throw the pieces away. So I store it and it gets enjoyed by no one unless it is a day when I just pull things out to touch them. Now that I have retired, I am being more realistic about what I will use and what will still be here when my home becomes my estate.
So I sell off the pieces that I know I won't be using, even though I still love them, in the hopes that they will give someone else joy. I am doing the same with patterns.
So I sell off the pieces that I know I won't be using, even though I still love them, in the hopes that they will give someone else joy. I am doing the same with patterns.
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