Friday, July 17, 2009

An Embarrassment Of Riches?


Here is the first reason I feel smothered in my studio, 6 bins of hand dyed fabrics.

There is no use kidding myself, I will never use all of this.

I'd like to de-stash and sell it. The difficulty is that 90% of it is cotton knit and I don't know if any one will want it, even if it is very reasonably priced and nicely dyed. Do quilters use knits? I can see people who make stuffies liking it but I really am not sure how to reach those people...

I might be able to sell it at the ETSY shop but that is alot of work and I haven't had much interest in my fabrics over there, probably because no one knows its there...sigh...

Well its a conundrum that MUST be dealt with and I will be making my first foray into doing something about it this weekend.

Tomorrow is the first day of the Portsmouth 4H craft fair, I will be bringing one carefully selected bin of fabrics to offer for sale. I know there are a few quilters there so maybe I can pick their brains on how to solve this problem.

Does any one out there have any thoughts?
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6 comments:

  1. jeanne, herselfJuly 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM

    not a one. not a single one.

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  2. AnnaJuly 18, 2009 at 5:35 PM

    Freecycle it, sugar. No money for you, but you know it'd go to someone who could really make use of it. It's worth all the psychic space you'll free up once it's all out of the house.

    freecycle.org

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  3. alsokaizenJuly 18, 2009 at 9:09 PM

    Thanks Anna I will look into it!

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  4. Nicole D.July 19, 2009 at 2:06 AM

    a pity , porsmouth is so far!!!!
    nicole

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  5. judeJuly 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM

    good grief!

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  6. alsokaizenJuly 21, 2009 at 5:49 PM

    I know jude, its crazy ain't it?

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