Feed Your Stash in Quiltropolis
Does your hobby have its own special language?
For quilters, the words fat quarter, layer cake, and jelly roll refer not to roomy living spaces or yummy pastries (though we love yummy pastries), but specific units of fabric. A fat quarter, for example, is a quarter yard of 100% cotton cloth cut from a yard of fabric in way that makes it more useful than a regular quarter yard.
A layer cake is a stack of pre-cut 10-inch squares. A jelly roll is a bundle of coordinated 2.5” pre-cut strips, around 40 of them.
Stash is what we call our fabric collection. Feeding the stash is a euphemism for shopping.
Some quilters are proud of their stash. Others, if it has gotten out of hand, are embarrassed. I once heard of a quilter who had so much fabric she bought a farmhouse out in the country to store her fabric in. A quilter in Madison County who passed away a few years ago left instructions with her family to let her quilting friends come take whatever they wanted.
Saturday, November 2, is the Iowa Quilt Museum’s annual SHARE YOUR STASH sale. From 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at New Bridge Church, 1305 W. Jefferson, Winterset, IA (Quiltropolis) you can feed your own stash.
Tons of fabrics, gently used quilting and other how-to books, tools, rulers, and even a couple of sewing machines have been donated. The prices will be fantastic. All proceeds go to the quilt museum to help further the museum’s mission, which is to promote appreciation of the American quilt and the art of quilting through displays of quilts and information about quilt history.
SHARE YOUR STASH SALE
Location
New Bridge Church, 1305 W Jefferson Street, Winterset.
Admission
For a donation you can enter early at 8:30. Free entry begins at 9:30.
Contact Information
515-462-5988
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