Well, this is my first time on this thread this year, but since I was active in the Fabric Moratorium at the end of last year and in my head I’ve been trying to stay on the wagon all along, I have to confess that I went on an absolute fabric bender in January because a local store had a big sale to reduce inventory - 75% of it you bought everything on the bolt. So 12ish yards of white (mostly for the Alice’s Wonderland quilt I hope to do) and 4 cuts of about 3 yds each for quilts for my nephews (I will have at least half that left when I’m done with their quilts but I did the math and it was going to cost as much to just buy only what I needed). They’re all solids, though, so versatile. But still, I’ve never bought so much in two trips to the fabric store in my life.
Then I went to a quilt guild meeting and a lady brought in some bags of fabric given to her by the son of a quilter who passed away. I was only going to take a few small pieces of blue for my farmers wife quilt, but there were lots of strings and scraps that no one wanted and they would be thrown away, so they came home with me, a good size bag.
But now I am recommitted to not buying fabric unless I need it to finish a project that uses fabrics already in my stash, and to not buying for projects that I’m not going to start immediately, or preferably have already started. But my father-in-law is temporarily starting with us in the guest bedroom that was also my sewing room, so I’m not sewing as much as I had been. However, I can sew at the kitchen table, it just needs more set up and clean up.
Last edited by Butterflyblue; 02-08-2026 at 02:58 PM.