Stash Busters

Do you have a large fabric stash? Is getting your sewing storage and work area organized a constant struggle? Do you seem to find fashion fabric not only on the shelf but also in bins, in the closet, under the bed, in the shed behind the house , in off-site storage? If you answer yes, you just might be a stasher.

Considering our hobby enables stockpiling, it is hard to resist the new fabric store in town as well as great online sales. While the fabric you are stashing might be also doubling as insulation, it is wise to look to the economic downturn, environmental concerns, the latest questionable safety of Asian imports, and the fact that our fabric might quite possibly outlive us and then be dumped by our husbands and children (oh, the waste!), I am proposing a sew-along group called Stashbusters.

In Stashbusters, you must use actual stash -- You are permitted to buy what fabric and notions necessary to complete a project --like lining, batting, trim, fasteners, etc. This can be applied to patterns as we have many patterns in our stash and if I don’t have the exact one I want to sew up, I know someone else must and could borrow and trace it off easily. The more fabric we use up from our stash, the more reasonably uncluttered and productive our sew rooms will be. We can show off our results at Show and Tell at the Chapter meetings and on our Flickr Group that I just started! To join: http://www.flickr.com/groups/957150@N22/ or go to www.flickr.com and enter “stashbusters” in the search box, the page should come up to join. When you enter your item, put your yardage used in description so we can add it all up!