Craft Supply Stockpiling??

**Cricketlegs** · 10-30-2008, 03:10 PM

years and years and years and..the person with the most quilt fabric when they dies wins...did I say years of fabric and embellishments and scrapbook stuff and yarn and paint and beads...yowsa!

**Momof3girls** · 10-30-2008, 05:16 PM

I have a stockpile of:
fabrics-flannel for jammies and regular
thread-all colors
extra scissors and a sharpener
glue
tape
pipe cleaners
many embroidery kits bought at deep clearance
extra odds and ends of yarn for embroidery
lots of fabric scraps for quilts
rubber stamps
some stamping supplies
felt
glitter
sequins
trims
buttons

**katybug** · 11-15-2008, 02:36 PM

I don't do sewing, knitting or scrap booking, but I do like to draw, and color with prismacolor colored pencils and as some of you might know those are EXPENSIVE pencils. I found a 12 pack at goodwill the other day for .99! I now plan on stocking up whenever I see drawing supplies, x-acto knives, prismacolor pencils and sketch pads.

I don't have enough to last forever, but it would be awhile before I needed more!

~KB

**knitnmom** · 11-16-2008, 11:46 AM

I think I'm pretty much set with yarn to last for years. Fabric....I could make tons of quilt tops, but I would like to have at least a couple packages of batting tucked away. I'm waiting for another really good sale to get some backing fabric too. I have plenty of hand quilting thread though. Beads, I think I'm pretty set on beads as well. Sewing needles...I could probably due with a little more machine thread and sewing machine needles.

**monkeymia** · 11-29-2008, 04:07 AM

I have a rather large "stockpile" in my scrapbooking room too so I have made a New Years Resolution not to buy scrapbooking supplies in 2009.

The only things I can buy are tool replacements (blades and cricut mats), adhesive and albums/plastic sleeves but the rest of the stuff I need to use out of my stash. lol We will see how that goes.

**LastDragonfly** · 11-30-2008, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by santoria

now this is a way to justify all my "STUFF"

My thoughts exactly. I have enough scrapbook stuff except adhesive to last about 2 years non stop and enough stamps that if I never bought another stamp again I could stamp into the next lifetime.

I am the former owner of a cross stitch shop so I wont even tell you how much stuff I have of those things.

**ladytoysdream** · 12-07-2008, 09:23 AM

I have a big stash of yarn.....or so, I think.
I crochet, hand knit, and machine knit. I thought my stash was good enough, but now that I have started the machine knitting, I am beginning to question the size of this pile. Hopefully in a few months, I will know more.
Going to downsize the pile as much as I can, and then take inventory to fill in colors where I need to. Then I will have a excuse to go yarn shopping....
I like looking for bargains

**Jeanna** · 12-07-2008, 10:17 AM

I found this thread again and found what I had posted sometime back. I still have enough of most things to do for years. The bad thing is I have been buying again. This reminds me that I need to stop. So I am going to make that one of my goals for the new year. Not to buy any craft supplies unless it is absolutely necessary to complete a project I am already doing. I really need to save money.

**homesteadmamma** · 12-07-2008, 11:06 AM

This is one of the best threads I've read. Now I have an excuse for having all the quilting material I have and all the scrapbooking stuff I have - it's for stockpiling. I love it.

My excuse for scrapbooking is dd and I both do it - so we need more stuff. I don't have an excuse for the quilting material I have.

When we moved to where we are now, dh had to rent a truck to haul all the wood he had in his workshop. We've been here 7 years and he is still using it. I tease him all the time about that truck when he reminds me of the material I have. I have challenged myself though to not spend over $500 in the next year on material. I haven' challenged myself when it comes to scrapbooking yet.

**Minner77** · 12-07-2008, 03:19 PM

I just started knitted and crocheting again. When we moved three years ago I gave away obnoxious amounts of yarn, but now don't have much at all. So -- I just made a little trip to the store for a few skeins to do some charity knitting. With that, what I have for my afghan, and a few other skeins, I have enough for a few months. (I miss my stash!)

~Mary

**vigilant20** · 12-07-2008, 03:23 PM

I was just thinking about this. I have a stash of yarn from my spendy days that I've been working out of, but it would probably be a good idea to start collecting coupons and picking up a pounder skein from time to time.

**dcompton** · 12-07-2008, 03:58 PM

A couple of years ago, I gave away all my yarn and fabric, and if this had come up a little earlier I could that my craft supply was frugally very bare, since I wasn't really doing any. Then I started crocheting again, and already the yarn is, uh, multiplying. I'm sure before long before I will have what seems to be the typical FV craft stockpile again.

Stockpile is such a MUCH nicer word that addiction. Stockpiles are GOOD.