Later this week, I
will be loading a bunch of boxes into a U-Haul trailer and taking them to Burke,
Virginia. I am moving out of Wisconsin. Yes, me. Myself. I. Not we or us. Just
me. Sigh. Not a fire, but almost as good. I've gotten rid of all sorts of
things. Still not quite as much as I would like, but I have sorted out my sewing
stash into three different stacks of materials.
Stack number one is the stack
for quilts. I've got one quilt that's an actual kit and another that's a pile of
well-chosen fabrics. This is my smallest stack.
Stack number two is the stack
for clothing for me. It's a larger stack than I thought, but the fabric is all
stuff that I want to use for items I already have the patterns for. I don't plan
on needing to purchase clothing for myself for a long while.
Stack number three
is the stack of stash that I can turn into items for sale that will become cash.
This is the largest stack, but since I was able to connect with several women in
the throes of their own de-stashing fits, it cost at most, $2/yard. For really
nice quality fabric. An entire armload was free. I have been poking my toes back
into the craft show scene. Mostly I do domestics as in kitchen towels, bowl
cozys, grocery bags, and the like. Even better, I am getting the patterns from
YouTube, so I don't pay for them. I've been collecting them into a book so I can
grab it and look up the dimensions I need to cut to get sellable product from
each piece in the pile. When I have a more permanent address in Virginia, I'll
register my business. For now, in Wisconsin, I fall into an exemption class and
don't need to do that.
If the fabric doesn't fit into one of the three stacks, I
don't really want to keep it and in most cases, I haven't. However, fabric makes
great packing material. Pun intended. I am using fabric instead of paper to
cushion my fragile items. I really enjoyed watching my delicate tea set get
safely packed away at the same time a heap of fabric got used to protect it. I
didn't have to pack the fabric, I used the fabric to pack.
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