Help! I think I need an intervention!
 

Someone please stop me from going to fabric stores! I have developed somewhat of an addiction to fabric. If there is a sale and I can get pretty fabrics for 3 or 4 dollars a yard, I go crazy. When I can get it for $2.50 a yard, I go berzerk!! LOL Hancock's is my new bar, coupons would be my bartender, and the fabrics are my scotch on the rocks. :D I have spent $70 on fabric just this week. :shock: Someone help me. LOL

I think the problem is that I don't have a stash at all as I just started quilting... I SO want a stash!

Can someone tell me how to overcome this!?

Thanks,
Candace

Just go with the flow, baby. LOL. I don't know how many people here will be able to help you, and I certainly suffer from the same affliction. Enjoy it until the plastic melts.

The title of your thread cracked me up.

Join the club we all have a addiction to fabric but it could be alot worse addictions

LOL! So you gals are just going to be my enablers in this equation! hahahaha This is awesome. My bank card is gonna get worn down REAL quick, I can tell. :D

Ah! And just wait until the vintage machine addiction starts!! :D

I think you're asking the wrong people for help. We're all enablers here. :)

Hmmmmmm..... I think that we would all just be enablers!!! I have the same problem!!

NO, I can't help you but I could be your partmer in crime. Enjoy building your stash.

True. A yard of fabric takes...how much space, whereas another machine...

Sorry, you won't get any help from this bunch of addicts. lol.

It doesn't matter if you have no stash, a small stash, or even a huge stash like I have. I can never pass up a good deal on fabric. If I like it I have to buy it.

Tell me how to stay out of resale/thrift/consignment shops and I'll tell you how to stay out of fabric shops.

:::::::::::::grannie off to think about methods::::::::::::::::

I could go shopping with you and tell you no after the cart is full and we are in the cutting line. I am cheap and a deal is a deal no matter, so I cannot help.

Oh the smell of fabric in the morning..........Sorry I can't help just got a coupon from Joanns

And after you've gone thru all the stores in your area, we'll be glad to let you know where some of the best places on-line are for you to get your fabric fix:D

I'm thinking that we all need a 12 step program. "Hello, my name is Sue and I'm addicted to fabric." lol. Good luck, but I agree, you are asking the wrong people. We all have the same problem. A few years ago, I cleaned my stash and gave it all away. That's so I had room for more. It's a sickness.
Sue

Well, I wouldn't worry about it till you show up at the checkout with all the material still on the bolts, glazed look in eyes and a bit of foam at the corners of your mouth, mumbleing something about 2 1/2 yards of this, 5 yards of that, 8 yards of the blue. And they drag you kicking and screaming back to the cutting counter to get them cut. Well, I wasn't kicking and screaming that time. Just kind of adopted a lost look, which I am good at calling up at a minutes moment.

I found out years ago that quilting was addictive...I knew long before that, that fabric was addictive when I started sewing for myself instead of my dolls at age 11 or 12. I see fabric and have great visions of what it will become (whether that happens or not), I have to have it! It used to be 3-4 yards of whatever struck my "fancy"...now it's anwhere from a "skinny" quarter to 6-7 yards (backings). I am constantly reorganizing my sewing room to handle MORE fabric. I am quickly running out of space, no matter what I do, I just can't sew fast enough! LOL,LOL
I think I must be over the top, but I'm smiling all the way!

If you figure out the cure, I'm not even sure I want it. hahahaha

Just take it day by day, the withdrawal can be awlful. some hints, when your palms start itching and you want to feed your stash hunger - take all your bins/boxes/bags/shelves of the lonely fabric and put them all out so they can see the sunlight - and open each one, maybe if the need is great - dump a bin or shelf or bag on the floor and refold, fondle. It worked for me but off the wagon I fell too.
Wow - we all should start a stasher's anonymous group. I joined the fabric moratorium on QB and did so well for 6 weeks. well I fell off the wagon - big time. Great deals on Ebay - I be so bad. Today I am back on the path, no fabric for me, I am taking it day by day. Today, i dumped all my fat quarters on the spare bedroom bed - queen size. this week I am arranging them to fit into plastic bins, folded nicely. Next, the quilt kit dresser - those poor babies haven't seen sunlight for years!!!

Alcoholics have AA, we have guild meetings, retreats, all day sew ins, quilt shows, the list goes on and on, only we don't discourage our addiction, we are all enablers.

I just like to think of it as 'stimulating the local economy'. It's a tough job, but I'm up for it.

Its a disease and I don't want a cure !!!!
Ive gone past yards and buy by the bolt now... for the fear Ill never find THAT fabric anymore
Every nook and cranny has been taken up in my sewing room... It has begun to flow to the second guest bedroom
Its the warmest room in the house, has the best fabric insulation my eyes gaze upon...


Welcome to the Group... "My Name is Luv and Im a fabric-holic, textile investor, Cotton consumer, F.A.R.T. wannabe and a gadget junkie.. "

I don't live near any Joann's or anything like that so I have to buy at my LQS and they don't usually have percentages off. One shop an hour away gives me 15% off because I drive there instead of going to the shops in my town. But, one day about a month before Christmas she has a huge sale. She opens at 6 am and if you come in your pj's, you get 40% off anything. 7 am you get 35% off, etc. Also, she lets you pick out everything you are going to buy a couple of weeks before the sale. I was the first person in and she grabbed my box of fabric (had my name on it) and I paid for it, in my pj's, and drove home. That's the best deal I can get. I live in a tiny town and all the cities around me are less than 15,000 people so shopping at a Joann's will never happen unless I travel hours away. I'm envious of all of you.

If you can afford it go for it. If it is causing financial stress stop.

I use the excuse that mine is an inherited problem. I got the gene from my Mom. As further testimony to this being an inherited issue, all of my sisters got the same gene... so it must be a dominant gene. I also have cousins with the issue.

OK, the problem, as I see it, is not that you can't stop buying fabric (at fantastic prices), but that you don't have enough time and money to buy all that you want! LOL You must stop and think! Do you really want that fabric? If NO, don't buy it. If YES, what's the problem? You go girl!!!! Don't let a little thing like a husband slow you down. seriously, though, If you can ger fabric at those prices, and you really like the fabric, and you can afford it, go get it. Build your stash, eventually you will start using it (giving you the excuse to buy more). It is an endless circle. Welcome to the FSW club. (Fabric Stashers of the World). Stashers Unite!!!!!!

do not fight the feeling-just roll with it.oh wait I am an enabler ,sorry.

Ask me how I know??? It seems I can't get enough:D

I'm happy to report there is NO AAA for us we won't allow it, so just enjoy your addiction I know I do, LOL.
Oh yeah I also enjoy the vintage machine addiction, it's all good.

Wish I could but I have it to and the vintage machine addiction!!!!!

Good Lord! If there's a cure, I'd like to know what it is! My house looks more like a quilt shop than anything else, and I continue to buy more. My head knows it's ridiculous, but my heart has absolutely no control. Apparently, my heart has the checkbook.

It's an epidemic and none of us are able to help you. We can't even help ourselves!

Sorry I can't help you. There is no overcoming it- take it one day at a time. I don't have any other prized collections other than that fabric which provides creativity and therapy. So welcome to the world of quilting!!!

I'm sorry. I don't understand what the problem is.

Oh my gosh!! LOL, LOL, LOL!!! I've told myself I am going to have to self-impose a ban on all internet sites having to do with quilting (or ebay or Craig's List).

In talking with my daughter last night, telling her about my 3 "new" vintage machines - she asked me why I needed 3 machines. I said, well to sew on all 3 at once of course!!! :D Apparently I was unable to sufficiently explain the draw these vintage machines have. She looked at me, shook her head and said, "Mom, I think you've crossed over to the dark side!!"

At least you've founds some good buys! I always fall for the full-priced fabrics!

we all seem to be stash hoarders here. I can't help you because I can't seem to help myself. It would be like the blind leading the blind .

I am right there with you. This week I am in Atlanta visiting my daughter. A dear friend of mine lives here, and she is looking for a sewing machine. I made the mistake of going with her one day to look at "sewing machines". I walked out of the first shop $225.00 lighter( $100 of it was for Designer's Gallery Studio Plus for my embroidery machines though). Next we stopped at JoAnne's and I spent another $45.00. That evening we went to Hobby Lobby (my first trip there) and lightened my wallet by another $65. And my friend STILL hasn't bought a new machine. I am NOT going out machine shopping with her again.

So Sorry I can't Help! But if you give me you ADDY I'll be on the next Plane to go shop with You! LoL They say its always better to have a partner.