Use What You Have Month originated with a post at Simple Sparrow. Every quilter I know has what's called a "stash," and apparently it's common to other kinds of crafters as well. The idea is that for the month of April, you only make projects from what you already have in your stash. I cheated by going to the fabric store on Thursday to buy a yard of neutral for the background of one of my works in progress. But other than that, I think I'm going to finish up quilts for JPed's twin girls this month just out of what I already have.
It's kind of a nice antidote to the American shop-shop-shop mentality.
I do worry (imagine that!) about how much pesticide is used to produce all the cotton I buy for quilting. So it's nice to see organic fabrics starting to come out. Check out HarmonyArt and Mod Green Pod. They aren't really for quilting, but I'm confident we'll get there.
