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Love to Sew Podcast

Episode 3: How Big Is Your Fabric Stash?

Love to Sew Podcast

Helen Wilkinson

Leisure, Hobbies, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Learn how we organize our fabrics, what we like to stash, how our partners feel about it, and what to do with unwanted items. Together we confess how much fabric we are each hoarding and come to realize that it's OK to collect fabric as part of a sewing practice. Do you have a growing fabric stash? Listen to this episode for great tips (and maybe a little bit of moral support) when it comes to organizing and managing a fabric collection.

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community.

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On today's episode of Love to Sew, we're taking a deep dive into the treasured yet sometimes

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dreaded fabric stash.

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We're talking organization habits, tips, and feelings surrounding

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fabric. Stay tuned, it's going to be a good one.

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Helen, yes, I think it's confession time. Oh no, I've been dreading this. We've been preparing

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ourselves for this. And by preparing, I mean, we each had homework, and that homework was to count how many pieces of fabric we each have in our fabric stash.

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So this morning I double checked my fabric stash has 78 pieces in it now that's not including

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Home decor fabrics quilting scraps or like fusible interfacing in muds.

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This is like garment fabrics

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that I intend to turn into clothing.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's what I did too.

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I left out all this scrappy bits because I didn't even want to count those but I have 112

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A hundred and 12.

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Actually, you know what that's not that far off from me. I feel like we're both pretty high up there.

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Yeah, that's true.

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A hundred and you win though. Yours is bigger. Oh, thank you.

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Yeah, for a hundred and twelve pieces that are like at least 1.5 meters long, like usable

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fabric. Okay, and how do you feel about that, Helen? You know, I knew it was really big.

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So I was kind of prepared for that number,

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