Stash

Now, Alice. That is a serious question. Define 'stash'. Just fabric? Polly

Hey Alice

I had to giggle at this question. Going back 3 years to Hurricane Katrina. I took the 2 large seats out of my Dodge Caravan so I could load my Hinterberg machine quilting frame that I had disassembled, my

4 SMs and Serger. My suit cases went into the front seat. I tried to pack my stash of fabric in the van and it wouldn't all fit. So I guess I'm in the LARGE dump truck catagory. And where was I today, buying more fabric.

Kate T. South Mississippi

Oh, gosh. If stash by definition just means fabric, I could fit mine into a couple of large rubbermaid boxes. I guess I am stash-impaired. If stash includes, rulers, mats, machines, and various tools, I guess a small pick up.

Sherry

LOL I had to read DH this question.... it made him laugh too,

We both agree that there is no way mine would fit in a small pick up. We've actually just recently moved a bunch of the stuff I'm not thinking of needing in the next couple of months into a large 40 ft storage container (like the box on the back of a semi truck). And no, I didn't even come close to filling an 1/8th of it with my stash. We bought this container to put out at our acreage to declutter our house. Some of my "clutter had to go". Most of what I moved was clothing fabric, although there was quite a bit of quilting cottons in the lot as well as bags of stuffing, quilt bats, pillow forms etc. I would estimate about 10 large apple boxes, and another 10 large rubbermaid tubs. That's what we've moved, what's left in the house now is all quilting related and if I was to pack it into tubs I would guess maybe 8 more large ones.

So I guess that puts me in the dump truck category.

I am working on turning all this into useable items, I just hope I'm going to live a loooooong time!

Marilyn in Alberta, Canada

Hm...

57 stacking crates of fabric/interfacing/sewing related stash in the loft at last count... 12 crates of patterns... 2 sets of Antonius baskets on wheels in the sewing room... 1 tall tower of thread... 1 under-bench basket set... 150 or so books 6 shelves of 'kit' 1 stack of cake boxes of UFO quilting projects... 20 sewing machines

I think I need a Luton van just for the sewing stash and related items! If we arw talking strictly quilting supplies (fabric & batting, no 'kit'), then I have 4 large stacking crates.

Humm, Kate, I am glad you have more stash than I have! My family says that my stuff would fill up a garbage truck and it would not all fit inside! Guess I need an 18 wheeler truck to store it all, including the 8 sewing machines, cutting table, 5 drawer chest of fabric, about 20 plastic crates that keep some of the fabric separated, and then there are 2 big closets full of fabric, as well as one whole sewing room with fabric stacked everywhere------but I am working on sewing it all up into "something". I also am giving away some cloth to local sewers----yesterday I gave away 18 yards of white nylon. I am working on getting the stash down to a more manageable pile. Barbara in SC

The Big Haul of 2007 demonstrated how much fabric fills a van. I got a call from Mrs. H, recently married to Mr. H whose late wife, Marilyn, had been a member of my guild. (She died in 2003.) She said they had to clear out Marilyn's quilting room and did I have any advice about what to do with it? I called my mini-group friends. Julie, Joan, and I went to the H's house one evening. We each created a huge stack of fabric, offering our checks, hoping that we weren't insulting the Hs. (I paid $150.) A week later Mrs. H said that they'd talked and they just had to get rid of the rest. Julie and I conferred and said we'd pay them $1,000. Julie and her husband went over with his big custom van and FILLED it. Julie and I spent 5 hours sorting fabric. We set aside some for a couple of friends whose fabric specialties we knew. Julie kept the vintage quilts--just cutter quilts in rather rough shape, since M's kids kept the really good ones. I got the neckties.

My share of the haul was 1500 yards. Figuring that Julie got an equivalent, but subtracting the stacks that we took the first night, it was probably 2500 yards in the van.

Nann .....now, when our mini-group meets and we say, "What a pretty fabric," the reply is often, "It's a Marilyn fabric."

i guess i would be a pick-up truck, or 1/2 a POD (for those in US- would probly know what those are). i, too, am fabric deprived. but then again, i am trying to use up my stash....

my sister on the other hand.....a semi tractor trailer.....

amy in CNY

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Mz Flutterby!

Is the 747 still available to us? Dibs on jewel tones!!!!!

Whoohoo! I'm always up for a good stash raid! Dreamweaver

Since a dump truck will haul about 380 tons.... DH says a dump truck, but with a truck driver friend of ours driving. (And notes that I am the one that can pack very well..... long stories but I get more into less space than most people.)

Pati, > While taking a class today on projects to reduce stash, we were asked

Hmmmm........... I wasn't thinking about all the sewing related furniture. I would probably prefer a tractor trailer, but a smallish one. Easier to fit stuff into, and easier to pack. BTW, if anyone wants to come help me sort/organize and such (sewing related items, sewing room, cutting room and room I need to finish clearing for my Tin Lizzie) I will donate some stash to you....

Pati, > Alice >> While taking a class today on projects to reduce stash, we were asked

Howdy!

Phish> While taking a class today on projects to reduce stash, we were asked if we

That's another dropped outta sight RCTQ'er, isn't it.

HMmmmmmmm Wonder how to call "Down Under"

Mz Flutterby!

Is the 747 still available to us? Dibs on jewel tones!!!!!

Whoohoo! I'm always up for a good stash raid! Dreamweaver

Heard tell on the Local News the other night that a moving van burned. 7 Families worth of 'stuff' including signed baseballs and old coin collections. My heart sank. I remember how nervous I was after the van would leave our house......and how relieved I was when they unloaded.

Butterfly (One time, we got a few boxes of a Military Person's uniforms, etc. What an ordeal that turned out to be)

Definitely into a pickup! Have I mentioned recently how "space-challenged" my house is?

If I left my quilt material in their current storage units, I suppose I could fill the back of a regular sized pickup truck. If I took the material loose, I think it would fill half a mini van with the back seats removed. If I took all of my fleece (which I don't consider in my "stash") I could fill the leftover front passenger seat in that mini van.

Denise

Hehehe... THAT reminded me...

Mum's dear old Singer 99K got dropped on the way to Malta, and was later reincarnated as my FrankenSinger. Works fine now... :D

Several of our crates didn't turn up until six weeks after we got to Malta. Several more turned up 18 months later!

A couple never turned up at all. We got *those* ones six months after we got back! By then all hope had been lost and we'd had the insurance money. I don't think they bothered the insurance company with that detail... Those crates had ben MIA or AWOL for almost 4 years.

On the way back home from Malta, the washing machine was dropped on its head. The power ringer went through the tub. That one could not be repaired, so was replaced by mum's first front loading automatic. :)

In all our moves, no-one dared to drop, lose, mislay or misshandle Dad's Bone Dome (RAF issue tailored flying helmet, with specially large shell made for his XXL head! In 1964 that thing cost over £2000! Slightly more than a small family home in some areas!)