Tunisian Crochet ----> Yard Sale

I started out planning to write about the latest trend in crochet, Tunisian Crochet -- but then one of my neighbours dropped by to give me this...

So that sent me off in a completely different direction!

For awhile now I have become somewhat disillusioned with my fabric stash!  Over the years I have made purchases of fabric - very lovely quilting cottons -- at least that's how I felt at the time!  Sometimes just a fat quarter and sometimes 3 meter lengths, but rarely did I buy a piece of fabric with a particular project in mind.... So now it has come to pass that pretty much everything that I make is "SCRAPPY" even though it is not scraps that I am working with!

So the announcement of a yard sale for our whole townhouse complex seemed to be the exact motivation to clear/sell some of my stash so that I might plan and purchase the exact right fabrics for my next quilt.   I want a quilt that doesn't have a dozen shades of various colours!  I want to make a quilt that has maybe FIVE perfectly coordinated fabrics.  I don't know yet what that quilt will be but that is my ultimate plan.  I want to PLAN each quilt, work on it using fabric that was carefully chosen, then when it is finished, think about the next quilt...

I think it might be what is called SLOW QUILTING now.  I even want to get back to hand quilting the quilt!   

So this Saturday I am going to have for sale a good portion of my fabric stash.

I have even thought about why I want to get back to slow quilting!  I find that I don't have alot of people who I need to make a quilt for, so if I make one quilt from start to finish in a year that should be quite fine for my closet space!

Another reason I want to make this change is I want to make something special for just me.  I have made too many small quilts with basic blocks. Those kinds of quilts are not particularly challenging to me anymore. They are sort of like working in a factory and doing the same thing over and over and over.  They just serve as a project that I would have to force myself to finish.

So, a fabric stash project is in progress!  Sorting and measuring fabric and stapling a tag with the amount of yardage and the price I want on to each piece of fabric.  I am going through some of my drawers and boxes and deciding which of the other sewing/quilting things can be cleared out too!  I have some acrylic rulers that are duplicates, I have dozens of embellishments, purse making things, zippers, doll eyes and " so much more"!  Every one of them can be sold off !  Oh!  I am hoping for empty drawers and boxes!

Its a big job, and it requires a heavy hand, because I keep coming across "special" fabrics that I think I might keep!  The keep pile is growing too fast, tho! I think I have to re-evaluate that keep pile!

One of the dilemnas about this project is that I want to start my plan to PLAN a quilt, but that means selling alot my fabric, but if I don't sell the fabric then I have to keep making scrappy quilts that I don't really enjoy... What is the saying? Six of one and a half dozen of the other!

I think I shall be happy with either outcome, tho!  Shall I see you on Saturday?

So, I will get back to my Tunisian Crochet project after the Yard Sale, I think.

Linking up with the Needle and Thread Network this week...