jeannie t

many times I buy material just because I like it, your nicer than me I would have told her when I want your opinion I will ask you for it. she was just plain rude in my books

Born2Sew

She sounds like a strange one all right. Believe me, I think I'm fly paper for freaks. They always find me. I usually make off hand conversation with them, just to get a handle on 'where they're at' so to speak. Sometimes I get a kick out of listening to some of them. If they're really freaky I get away as quickly as possible.

Most of the fabric I buy is usually something that catches my eye that I like. I can always buy coordinating fabric later. I don't always buy with a plan in mind at the time.
I have an aunt that sews alot and she only buys what she needs for a particular project, thus she doesn't maintain a stash. Then again, she doesn't live as far away from the fabric store as I do. Hubby rarely likes to go with me when fabric shopping. I buy mostly online and then go shopping for coordinating pieces.

Shaz

When anybody asks me something like that, I just tell them it's for a 'Wait n See' Quilt. They either walk off thinking they know what I'm talking about or enquire further, to which I respond that it is too difficult to explain as it is still in the design stage.
Well it is the truth, even if the design is not a twinkle in my brain thought yet, but one day it will be. It is amazing the number of people who just smile and walk off.

sewNso

sounds like the lady was a little off her rocker, for medical or chemical reasons. It takes all kinds of people to make this world go around and thank god we aren't all alike. personally i enjoy all the differences.

let us not forget sometimes, that rude, is just plain rude. tho.

CarrieAnne

I work at a fabric store. I usually do ask people what they are making with the fabric. Not too be nosy, just so I am not cutting in silence. I am a chatty person, lol, never could shut up!

laurac

i figure everybody has their own oddities. i'm sure i rub some people the wrong way and don't even know it. if i don't know the person whose bugging me i just try to take it lightheartedly and figure i have a story to tell later.

LogCabinLady

Maybe there is something wrong with me, but this would not annoy me. She might have been lonely and just wanted to talk.

owie

I would have been weirded out also, but that being said I agree with the possible Alzheimers and/or lonely person. Sometimes people are so lonely they try to start up conversations and are not really "trained" in how to do this. I have had that happen to me quite a bit. I tend to draw "wierd" people. Maybe becasu I am a geriatric mental health nurse. I usually talk with them if they are not too weird.

Tweety2911

Precisley!

adrianlee

I got one. How about, "the voices told me to buy these." That old gal was rude to you. I have fabrics that I got several years ago, and I actually used some of them lately cause the color/tone was just right for a project.