One of my goals for this year was to downsize my stash by at least 200 yards. At the beginning of the year I had imagined doing this by going through the stash and sorting out what I didn't want and then selling it. And I did go through all of my novelty fabrics and part of my Christmas fabrics, well the two xerox boxes full of them, and sorted out half to get rid of the novelty prints, and a grocery sack full of Christmas to start with (more to come of these!). Some of the novelty prints did get listed and sold. Also managed to get thru the two+ totes of precuts and weeded out some of those for selling.
But then C-19 hit and my focus ended up being changed as people began asking me to make masks for them. I've still managed to continue downsizing the stash and am starting to see a wee bit of difference in some of the piles in my stash.For the months of April through June, a total of 434 masks were made and delivered for orders/ Each mask takes 1/8th of a yard of fabric. So during those months I used 54.25 yds of fabric from stash.......yeah for making a difference.
Adding this total with was already gone (28 yds) gives me a total of 82.25 yds gone from the stash...woohoo........
Now to keep the progress moving so that number can continue to increase.
Gratitudes:
1. The new HVAC system sure feels good with the high temps and heat index here in N Tx right now.
2. Hopeful positive news on the sale of the company I work for.
2 comments:
That's an amazing amount of fabric turned into masks! Wonderful and useful reduction.
Huge progress toward your stash reduction goal, and hoping the "value added" masks provided more income than just selling chunks of fabric.
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