2021 ANTI-HAUL | I Got Rid of HALF of My Fabric Stash! 

This was wonderful! I have Lupus and have had 19 surgeries - 12 orthopedic including 4 hand surgeries. I am not only a sewer but I am and new quilter and also bead, cross stitch, scrapbook, cross stitch, crochet, rubber stamp etc etc etc. My little craft room also doubles as a baby changing station for my granddaughter. Thank you for helping me realize I need to think about my abilities and how realistic is that I will actually do all those crafts again!!!

I can't even express to you how much I love this video! Some of your tips have completely changed how I think of fabric destashing. Now I just need to gather up the courage to do some destashing of my own!

OK. I'm inspired! I started doing this declutter of my craft room last year after we had moved and LITERALLY just chucked all the boxes marked "crafts/sewing" into our tiny 3rd bedroom and closed the door. The pandemic hit and I started to set up and organize but 1/2 way through, we started replacing the wall to wall carpet with vinyl plank flooring in every room. I say "we". I should say I. But now that that's done (looks great, so happy!), I'm itching to get back to it. Thanks so much for sharing your process.

Motivational….from someone who’s too creative and dreams useful purposes for anything (aka hoarder). I am at the focusing on starting and completing projects stage in my creative journey.

Your drawers just need a light sanding down to ease the opening and closing. Looks like the wood has swollen with humidity.

Those quilt tops would make beautiful quilted jackets. I made one using a sweatshirt as the base.

You’ve given me hope to tackle my “organized mess”!

WOW! Great job! You had a lot of guts to just get rid of things you've held on to. I have shelves and shelves of vintage curtains that will become a quilt, I realized that I had to be careful as vintage curtain fabric can disintegrate so I dared to throw it all in the washing machine to see what came out unharmed. A lot came out shredded so that helped me destash.

I’m so impressed. Destashing is huge. Many people just end up hoarding.

Awesome show! I need to do this in my sewing room!

The Container Concept! Yay, Dana K. White from A Slob Comes Clean! Her “Decluttering at the Speed of Life” book is t he only book I’ve ever read on the topic that actually makes sense to my brain! Congrats on managing this clean out. It’s a tough job for sure. I was forced to declutter a lot of my sewing when I sold my house and moved into my current apartment. Still not done with that project, really. (*sigh*) I agree that your space looks much more useable for you now. Congrats!

I am interested to know about your handkerchief craft.....I' ve stashed lots of vintage handkerchieves but I haven't found a good idea to repurpose them in a satisfying way...Thank you for sharing!

I love your Martha Washington Sewing cabinet!! And your decluttering is epic! It is very inspirational for all of us.

thank you -I too have had some changes in my life in my abilities, in my interests, so this really helped me thanks

I am impressed it only took you 4 days. I have so much too. If I can finish by the end of the summer, I will be happy/

I’m not sure I could part with ANY patterns! I have lived long enough now , to see what I miss from my past. I would LOVE to have the patterns my mother used to create clothing for me and her. I would love to make things for my grandchildren using some of those old tried and true patterns. Now, at 73, I would appreciate the patterns we used to make my grandmother’s clothing. It was mostly dresses made from non stretch cloth. I would enjoy one or two nice non stretch, shirtwaist dresses for church. Vintage clothing is lovely and so feminine. I love the 1930s and 1940s era clothing. It wouldn’t surprise me if we had patterns from that era that went onto someone’s burn pile! I , myself, during my younger dumber era, got rid of ( yes, I know, it breaks my heart to even think about it) quilt tops, one of my grandmothers had hand pieced. Anyway, patterns are history. If you have a stash of them you don’t want anymore, sell them on Etsy. You’ll be surprised how much you can get for them!

Congratulations, I envy you. I get headaches thinking of what I need to do with my tons of fabric I will not live long enough to use.

I discovered Kon Marie too ended up doing the whole house but I to must tackle my sewing and crafts again Thankyou for your inspiration

I’m moving to Australia and have to be brutal with what I keep. This is helping!!

If you take a bar of soap and go across top of drawers it will be much easier to open and close.

Thank you so very much for the inspiration!

Well, we actually don’t know that it was perfectly good before Colleen got it though, do we? For all we know, it had a giant rip or burn, and they cut that part out and donated what was still useable. But yes, it’s annoying when people do take perfectly good items and chop them up for no good reason!

Inspiring

You may have mentioned this, but do you trim off the odd shapes that result from making clothing? Do you square up the fabric?

I lost your comment! What is lb store in St Louis .?

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It hurts me so much when people cut up perfectly good items.