aargh
Every now and then I get quite smug about my fabric stash. For weeks, even whole months at a time, I labour under the delusion that I know what’s in the spare bedroom, and exactly what I’m going to do with each and every little bit of it when I eventually get round to it.
Then I go in there looking for Brown silk velvet. I find that brown silk velvet, becuase my stash if well ordered and the brown silk velvet is exactly where it ought to be.
Except for the part where the brown silk velvet is cuddled up with three metres of oyster coloured silk velvet. Not only do I not know what the oyster coloured velvet is for, I can’t remember buying it.
I stared hard at the oyster coloured silk velvet and it stared back at me, respledent and shiny and smug, and refused to give me even an inkling of what it wants to be when it grows up. It had the confident air of an accomplished freeloader who had taken up squatter’s rights in the spare bedroom
Can stash breed when you aren’t looking?
Not that I mind if it does, you understand, its more that I’m worried about how much wieght the floorboards can handle…
opusanglicanum 
No doubt – stash breeds.
I knew it couldn’t possibly be my fault. I’m innocent and no one can prove otherwise.
Oh it would be sooooo good if it did breed…. So long as it only had good looking and useful children though!
the oyster velvet is quite good looking, but in a caddish sort of fashion
Yep, stash breeds, no doubt about it. Although I must say, three metres of oyster velvet is a good puzzlement to have!
I really dont know what to do with it, its not my colour at all
Usually oyster is one of those chameleon colours that changes depending on the colours it is used with. Maybe you can make it more like a colour you’d be happy with by putting it with something else?
I’m beginning to think I might have bought it with the ultimate aim of playing at some of the medieval velvet applique
I know for a fact that stash breeds- but I’ve never had it breed anything as glorious as oyster colored silk velvet. Most of my spontaneous stash offspring turns out to be things that make me go “Why in the hell would I buy that?!??!”
I found five metres of plaid silk dupioni a few years ago, but I managed to flog it for a profit
Mine also eats whatever it is you think you still had just enough left of, when you have a use for it.
I wish I had a spare bedroom to keep my stash from flooding my bedroom and living room.
mine hides things but I’ve never known it resport to cannibalism
Eloquently put.
I take it your stash bunnies are similarly out of control?
Brown and oyster… they sound like they go together, perhaps use the oyster as an underdress or underskirt? Do you keep receipts for your taxes? That might tell you when the brown started breeding it…
I probably bought it just because it was there – I can’t get any more silk velvet for the same price, and I got it bloody cheap – and I’ll have though why not. there are some lovely appliqued velvets from the c16th, it might do for something like that