The Community First! Quilters recently were gifted a portion of a hoarder's stash and I've been curating it for the past several weeks: sorting, organizing, culling, selling, and generally getting to know every.single.piece. It has easily increased our stash by 50%, a stash which currently is homeless as we've lost our usual meeting and storage space. I've got four bins of our original stash at home with me and the other 15 or so are in our fearless leader's vehicle. When next we meet we'll have a better idea of the lay of the land, and where these bins are landing.
In the meantime! It's been very interesting seeing the results of a hoarder's addiction (which pales compared to the stash Nann had been describing throughout last year.) One of the oddest things I dealt with was scores of BOM bags that had been sold at $6/pound at a store going out of business. I know this because the sign was included with all those bags. A few were unique, but most were duplicates of BOM kits the store had made up but never sold. The biggest duplication was 17 kits of the same pattern/colorway.
I tried folding all the identical pieces together, but that ended up being awkward and taking up a lot of room in their respective bins. As space needed to file FQs diminished, I finally decided to pull the biggest piles of all those BOM pieces and see what I could make of them. Backs, preferably, so I set up a spreadsheet with the goal square inchage (like footage, but for inches, yes?) of 7,000 (that covers something slightly less than 75"x95"), and started subtracting the pieces to see how far I could get.
