Shelley, the parts in italics are my internal musings, not something I would ever say to a friend, but I thought they needed to be inserted so everyone would know the reasoning behind my "rules". You don't say where "here" is, but fabric is getting more expensive every time I take a trip to the LQS, which is why I am more and more buying sale fabrics from on-line vendors.
Several people have asked IF I will make a quilt, and when I tell them "No.", they want to know why. So I tell them, "Quilting is my method of having fun and relaxing; if I quilted for money, it would become a job, and would no longer be fun and relaxing."