You know you have too much fabric when...

It takes you ALL DAY to sort, fold, rearrange (by color and type, as per my fabric OCD) and just generally organize your fabric closet. 

  

(The two piles to the right on the upper shelf are my personal piles and are not available to others.  Sometimes I put a HANDS OFF sign.  When I am feeling bratty.)

This does not include the piles of stuff being a) given away, b) donated to become Corset Cozies (see Danger Kitty over there on the left), or c) available for sale.  Or the two metal shelving units filled with plastic bins of fabric.  Or the bolts in the corner...

Hi.  My name is Larue, and I have a fabric problem.  Some day my children will come home and find me, dead, buried under a pile of fabric, and they WON'T BE SURPRISED.  Because it will have fallen on me and crushed me to death.

Which means I need to start buying more cotton.  And keep everything off of bolts...

Comments

[Marti]

The smell of the sizing alone would knock out sensitive souls. But, I love you and your fabric problem. If we sense an intervention is necessary, we will call Seamstresses Anonymous. Your posse has your back.

[the cheap chick]

I fear the Posse members are the ones enabling (sp?) her. We're always saying, "oh Larue will just have it in the fabric closet, no worries..." And then she has to skibble off to replace what we use.
Worse, I even go with her on many of these fabric runs. I am truly a BAD FRIEND.

[Artemisia]

You're efficient. It took me days to sort my stash. Then again, my OCD dictated I roll instead of fold, keep all rolled fabric in numbered bins, record that number on the index card along with a sample, yardage and type of fabric, sort all the index cards by color and all colors are sorted according to the color wheel. *twitch*

Hello. My name is Artemisia and I'm a fabricholic. Here's a support group. We don't really help each other out: http://www.renaissancefestival.com/forums/index.php?topic=97.0

[Toni Mitt]

Oh Larue...you are just one of Us. Those of us afflicted with SABLE:
Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
There are many of Us. We know Each Other, and understand.

[Jeanne]

This is TOO FUNNY, My Girls always say "We aren't sorting thru this **** after you die so you better use it all" LOL. Like that will ever happen, I am a great scrappy person but when I make scrappy quilts I have to go buy fabric because I might need my scraps for SOMETHING IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TrayneShayne]

I really don't see the problem. Your stash doesn't seem too big at all. It looks to me like you might need another trip to SR Harris. Haven't you heard that "she who dies with the most fabric wins"?