Rate your stash

Glad to help ;)

Cheryl

Well, having run out of wall space for ndlwrk and having found other hobbies, I couldn't see keeping stuff I would probably never use. And I know that some of these women at craft shows can barely afford to invest in supplies, so it's a win win. I still have enuf to do some small projects, tho - and that's all I want at this point.

The same test I apply to just about everything now - books, clothes, cooking gear....I like my house with the empty look.

Mine's about 6 x 7. Of course, some of my stash in there is for crocheting. I'd have to subtract two 33 gallon bins of yarn and afghan UFO's to calculate crosstitch stash. My crosstitch stash includes about 800 patterns at last count, including complete collections MLI, TW, Paula Vaughan and P. Buckley Moss patterns, two bins of preassembled kits including every single TW kit ever put out, years and years of Just Cross Stitch and other magazines, nearly two full sets of DMC, plus oodles of mulitples picked up when Walmart clearanced them out, incomplete batches of Anchor, Kreinik, and various other threads, a wrapping paper storage bin full of empty dowel rods I use for my large MLI projects, a complete set of every size scroll rods with the fabric stips attached (K's Creations, I think) plus extras, a bin of fabric cuts and remnants, two rolling carts, my floor stand, my sit on it stand, a table stand...

It's seriously time to have a garage sale, Jinx

If you're having a yard sale, I want to be there!

Donna in Virginia

It's the stitching patterns and the YARN that put me over the top. I won't mention all the bits of broken jewelry that a friend keeps giving me from her Ebay lot purchases because I threatened at one point to make jewelry collages.

Elizabeth

I didn't consider the beads in my stash - just the cross stitch

Cheryl

I DID remember your beads, and enjoy the untangler you gave me!

G

I'm so glad you like it!

Cheryl

Hmmmm - if you folks are fives, I must be about a 7. I have (deep breath) all the DMCs, all the Splendour silks, all the Gentle Arts sampler threads, plus some Weeks Dye Works, Silk Mori and Soie D'alger. I have several boxes of fabrics, beads, embellishments as well. This is all stored in a double cupboard which I fitted out with shelving. One side is books, magazines and finished framed pieces which I haven't space for on my walls, while the other is boxes with all the above mentioned stuff, and a box of finished, unframed pieces. I also have most of my patterns in one draw of a filing cabinet filed by designer or pattern type. Kits, hoops, frames, q-snaps, sewing supplies and magnifiers are also stored in the cupboard.

I also have a four drawer plastic cabinet on wheels that sits next to my stitching chair. I usually has my current projects and ufos in it with my Ott light sitting on top.

MargW

Welcome to the land of 7. I totally forget to consider my box of finished, but unframed pieces. I think there's at least 30 pieces in there.

Donna in Virginia

If you're a 7, I'd like to know what a 10 would look like! Wait...that would be my LNS!!!!

BTW, I'm at *5.3* now. I did MAJOR damage to the credit card at the Stitching Post yesterday. And must have added two years to my life, if SABLE rules apply!

I bought the chart for "Alphabet Zoo" by Blue Ribbon Designs, which I fell in love with when it showed up on the Hoffman update a week or two ago.

bought fabric and fibers to make some ornaments from this year's JCS designs: "Oriental Splendor" by Cindy Valentine Designs and silks for Workbasket's "Elfen Stockings." Bought a bunch of silks to work on the banner I'm doing for church (the main reason for the visit). Can't start anything else until this is done, so those other goodies will have to wait.

Bought some 36-st. linen for future projects - hope to begin those in January. And some 40-ct that was on sale, just to try it out. And the last ornament kit for the canvaswork ornament club; I've only just started the September one.

Where to begin???? Well, start by finishing the WIP!!!

Sue

I've got one of those too. I'm *really* bad and finishing finished pieces. I have two professionally framed pieces and a couple of larger pieces as well as a lot of small pieces I've framed myself. The rest are in a banker's box in the closet. I just hate the framing process.

Cheers,

I'm thinking I need to dial back my rating to a 3 or 4 after reading some of these posts!

Cheers,

I think I was being too modest when I claimed my stash was only a 2 or a 3. With 4 plastic multi-drawer cabinets filled with much DMC (I don't have every color but I do have multiples of ones I use frequently)and a few Anchor skeins; cotton overdyes, rayons and silks; YLI ribbon floss, perle cottons, kreinik spools, candlewicking yarns; a huge basket filled with crewel and needle yarn; plastic shoe boxes filled with buttons in little plastic baggies sorted by color; and many other things, I am a definite 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All of you who said you were in the 5-7 range were also being too modest ... add another point or two to your ratings.

Okay !!! :^))

I used to be a 4 or 5. I had 3 big Rubbermaid totes full and some laying around. Now my personal stash is about a 1 or 2. I have 1 big tote about

3/4 full. I used my 'new' stuff to help stock my shop at first. That weeded it down considerably.

Of course, if you count my needlework shop inventory then I would definitely be a 10 plus :)

I only counted my embroidery projects, not my crochet. The crochet is a 5 all by itself.

On 10/16/08 8:48 AM, in article NCHJk.1408$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrddc01.gnilink.net, "Gill Murray" wrote: SNIP

But you haven't seen Bobbie V's.... She was close to an 8. Down now to a 5. I'm still a 5

C