Thread: I have spring buying fever

I buy a lot online. I also live far from any quilt stores, the nearest is about an hour away. I have lots and lots of beautiful fabrics coming in the mail next week. I'm so stoked.

It's time for a lot of us to quit worrying about our UFO's. Maybe it's possible through this board or local quilt guilds to hook up with someone equally jaded and you could trade UFO's. Or donate them to a quilt guild that sews quilts for charity.

If there are any quilters near you, maybe your shopping trip could be car-pooled and would be all the more fun.

I just figure collecting a stash is part of the entertainment value of the hobby and don't worry too much about it, but I'm lucky enough to have a DH with a very expensive hobby of his own. Good grief, the price of a beer after a round of golf is probably equal to more than a fat quarter or two. He recently went to Las Vegas with a golf buddy. So I should worry about the cost of a little fabric? Don't think so!

Too many women have a tendency to feel bad about the little things we do for fun. If you are not cramping the family budget with out-of-control spending, just cut out the guilt trip! If you really can't afford it, that's another matter. Perhaps you can make some items that will sell on Etsy to support your hobby. Whatever you do, don't make yourself miserable about quilting. Either you love it and deserve it or you need a different hobby.

Must be contagious, I have been trying to talk myself out of an order from Connecting Threads. I also have several UFO's kitted and ready to cut but am not in the mood for them.

No decision to be made, it's shopping, of course.

I have so many projects that they are sitting on top of each other, but that doesn't stop me from buying more. New fabric really talks to me. And I am the kit queen of America. I buy kits from Fat Quarter Shop online and go to LQS that sell kits. Plus I buy lots of fabric lines. And then I spend a day organizing and find all kinds of fabric and kits I totally forgot about. I feel guilty. I gave away a huge box of kits to a gal here just to ease my conscience. Now I don't have to look at all those kits and know I'll never do them. Shop hops for me are so expensive. I travel so far and buy so much at each shop and if I win, it's always something little, something I can do without. So I don't shop hop except to do my own shop hopping (especially online). It's an illness. What is the name of it? Fabraholic? Quilt-sickness?