About StashBuilding

Welcome to StashBuilding! Here you will find all manner of adornments that you just can’t live without and articles on how to use them in your fiber art. You’ll learn about the artists who create the things we crave, and about the artists who incorporate them in their work. You’ll also discover how other StashBuilders store and display their collections, and have an opportunity to show off your own Stash!

I’m Mary McRae, and I’ll be your guide. I’ve been building a Stash ever since I can remember — whether it was colored pencils and markers, calligraphy pens and inks, threads, paints, and eventually fabric, buttons, trims, laces, more threads, fibers, papers, and more paints — and I’m sure I have more than several lifetime’s worth of supplies on hand. But that doesn’t stop the desire to continue building the Stash — sometimes it’s an immediate need for a project at hand, and other times it’s something that I know will be perfect for some future, as yet unnamed project. I hope you’ll join me on the StashBuilding Expedition.