I finally got around to moving my two tall shelves full of tone-on-tone fabrics today, with ITMan’s help. As I was loading the folded fabrics into laundry baskets to move it downstairs, I thought it might be interesting to weigh it, just for curiosity’s sake. So one laundry basket full weighed about 35 pounds, and I had six baskets from those two shelves. I also have about three more baskets full of all my print fabrics in another dresser. Then there are the eight Rubbermaid tubs of fat quarters, which I estimate might fill up one more basket full. I realize that there’s probably quite a bit of room for error here, and this is not all uncut yardage, either. Oh, and there are some bags of true scraps around as well not included in this total.
Oh dear. I’m not sure I really want to know how much that might be in yards, but here goes: That comes to 10 baskets full, times 35 pounds per basket, for 350 pounds. I weighed a one yard piece of fabric, straight off the bolt, and it comes in at 4.5 ounces. So then you multiply 350 pounds by 16 to get the total ounces, and divide by 4.5, for a whopping 1,244 yards!!! WOW! I think that’s it for the math today, because I’m absolutely not going to think in dollars about all that. Um, can you say fabric diet???
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May 12th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
You’ve got some guts girl! Those are some stats that I do not every want to know about my stash!
May 12th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Hi Vicki,
You’re right, but I didn’t know how brave I was until I figured up the total…I think I’m in shock!
May 16th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
At $7.99 a yard that is just under…
sit down…
$10,000.00!!
May 16th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Oh, thanks, Paula!
Yeah, I’d already done the rest of the math, since my curiosity got the better of me. What can I say? I’ve been collecting fabric a long time, like 16+ years, so I guess it’s not too surprising…
October 29th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I ought to thank you for this, but somehow I’m not sure I need to know mine, LOLS.
November 12th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Oh, sure you do Sally! And report back to the rest of us too!