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11-16-2010, 02:06 AM

#101

auntiehenno

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Join Date: Mar 2009

Location: Live in Littleton, CO via Rapid City, SD

Posts: 2,187

I love fabrics. Heard cottons were going up. Wonder why, since they are milled in Asia are they not. Robber barons!!!

11-16-2010, 03:59 AM

#102

PEP

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Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: Lisbon, Ohio

Posts: 74

I am not a stash-a-holic; I'm a 'Collector Extrordinaire'!
(that's is my spelling, I don't care what Webster says!) lol Patty

11-16-2010, 06:16 AM

#103

Jo Mama

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Join Date: Nov 2007

Location: N.W. Florida

Posts: 866

Very good sentiment. Also try Fabric.com - they are having a sale right now. Brand name fabric at $3.95 a yard. Big selection too.

11-16-2010, 06:29 AM

#104

PamS

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Join Date: Apr 2010

Location: Doniphan, MO

Posts: 300

EVERYTHING keeps going up except my pay check!
Thank goodness for thrift stores and yard sales, as long as they don't get the idea to raise their prices.

11-16-2010, 06:49 AM

#105

natalieg

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Join Date: Jul 2010

Location: Montana

Posts: 1,073

As much stash as I have-I still manage to buy a few hundred dollars worth every month of fabric! Trying to make sure that I have enough stash for my lifetime and my two daughter's lifetimes....and maybe any future grandkid quilter's lifetimes!!!

11-16-2010, 07:06 AM

#106

zennia

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Location: new york state

Posts: 10,162

Glad I have lots of stash.

11-16-2010, 07:13 AM

#107

Jo Mama

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Join Date: Nov 2007

Location: N.W. Florida

Posts: 866

Quote:

Originally Posted by zennia

Glad I have lots of stash.

Absolutely, positively LOVE my stash. My husband will know what to do if something should happen to me so he's not to bad about my growing "art" resources. My quilt buddies all their instructions too.

11-16-2010, 08:04 AM

#108

mrsjdt

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Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: Upstate NY

Posts: 482

That's me...hubby says my collection needs to cease it's expansion

11-16-2010, 08:37 AM

#109

Bev

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Join Date: Nov 2006

Location: Florida

Posts: 1,162

Quote:

Originally Posted by natalieg

If I had a few hundred dollars to spend on fabric every month, I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven!
Lucky you! :lol:

11-16-2010, 11:59 AM

#110

Nolee

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Join Date: Jul 2010

Location: Chili, New York (Rochester)

Posts: 1,147

Quote:

Originally Posted by yonnikka

Try sources online such as The Cotton Loft, QuiltFabricCloseouts.com, and eQuilter, under the Clearance Sections. Another one is FabricBlowout.com . I found it a healthy and heart-healing activity to Give Away fabrics, such as Red, white and Blue for quilters sewing for QuiltsofValor. Saying goodbye to fabrics means it is okay to let go of things we love, that others may benefit faster than if I hold on tight.

I have made Quilts of Valor for about 3 years now. No one has ever donated fabric to me, but the caring of that group is wonderful. I was able to present two of my quilts personally and am now working on one for a young man coming home from his second tour in Iraq and on his way to Afghanistan after Christmas. This is a work I will never abandon.