PAS (Pattern Acquisition Syndrome) -- Has anyone beat it?
#1
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western Wisconsin
Posts: 12,930
PAS (Pattern Acquisition Syndrome) -- Has anyone beat it?
I successfully kicked my FAB (Fabric Acquisition Syndrome), but I'm still having trouble with PAS, probably because patterns are less expensive than fabric.
I have continued with PAS even as I have been sorting through my hundreds and hundreds of vintage quilting magazines page by page. Have done thousands of pages so far, "flagging" inspirational quilts and quilts I might want to make some day, and giving to the library only those issues that don't get at least one flag. Maybe someday I will be able to cut apart a magazine to take out only the flagged quilts, but I'm not there yet.
Maybe I should forbid myself to go to eBay. eBay is such a great enabler! However, I'm not about to give up the QB! And the QB is where I keep falling off the wagon. It's kind of like going to a bar with the idea of sipping on some soda.......
I have continued with PAS even as I have been sorting through my hundreds and hundreds of vintage quilting magazines page by page. Have done thousands of pages so far, "flagging" inspirational quilts and quilts I might want to make some day, and giving to the library only those issues that don't get at least one flag. Maybe someday I will be able to cut apart a magazine to take out only the flagged quilts, but I'm not there yet.
Maybe I should forbid myself to go to eBay. eBay is such a great enabler! However, I'm not about to give up the QB! And the QB is where I keep falling off the wagon. It's kind of like going to a bar with the idea of sipping on some soda.......
#4
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Western Wisconsin
Posts: 12,930
Here's my dilemma. There's a pattern from a magazine on eBay that I looked at before, didn't bid on it, and it went unsold. Kicked myself for not spending the $5 and looked for it a long time. Now it is back, but someone else has placed a bid on it. (I use auctionstealer to snipe at the last minute.)
I could re-create this quilt on my own, given graph paper and a little time, but in reality -- considering the thousands of patterns I already have sitting on my bookcase shelves -- I will probably never actually make the quilt. Even with the pattern, I would make certain changes in the pattern to suit myself. However, it would be easier if I had the original pattern -- especially a good sized photo and diagram.
The pattern's really cute, but I keep seeing a grandma in the bid already on eBay who has decided this is the perfect quilt for her grandchild. And I don't have a grandchild. I feel like I'm going to grab it out of her hands. And maybe for nothing, if I never make the quilt. But then maybe she will never make the quilt. This pattern will probably not come up again anytime soon because it is pages from a magazine.
Sometimes I think too much........
I could re-create this quilt on my own, given graph paper and a little time, but in reality -- considering the thousands of patterns I already have sitting on my bookcase shelves -- I will probably never actually make the quilt. Even with the pattern, I would make certain changes in the pattern to suit myself. However, it would be easier if I had the original pattern -- especially a good sized photo and diagram.
The pattern's really cute, but I keep seeing a grandma in the bid already on eBay who has decided this is the perfect quilt for her grandchild. And I don't have a grandchild. I feel like I'm going to grab it out of her hands. And maybe for nothing, if I never make the quilt. But then maybe she will never make the quilt. This pattern will probably not come up again anytime soon because it is pages from a magazine.
Sometimes I think too much........
#7
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: SC
Posts: 1,909
I not only have ALL the syndromes you mentioned, but few more as well. Let's see, there's TAS (thread acquisition syndrome, comes free with a membership in the Superior Threads Thread Club groups)....and OSMAS (old sewng machine acquisition syndrome, it also comes free with a drop-in or two at the Vintage sewing machines section; and then there's..............well, you get the idea. Now, what are we gonna do about it? Try to cure it? Naw! Regulate it? Naw! Sit back and enjoy it? Yeah!!!! LOL
#10
I aquire many more patterns than I will ever use, but it doesnt hurt the budget or cause me clutter. I am an internet free pattern saver. Whenever I see an idea, tute on this board, or free pattern, I download it into a pattern file. There it will live forever.
I just think, oh, I like that and may need it. Most of the time when I do want it, cant find it anyway because it isnt named what I thought it should be. LOL
I have a file for photos of quilts I like too. Those I do scroll through for ideas.
I just think, oh, I like that and may need it. Most of the time when I do want it, cant find it anyway because it isnt named what I thought it should be. LOL
I have a file for photos of quilts I like too. Those I do scroll through for ideas.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
thequiltmama
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
7
05-20-2011 02:34 AM