Buying fabrics
08-31-2010, 10:15 PM
#91
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Originally Posted by mom-6
I was a fabricaholic long before I was a quilter! Beautiful fabric talks to me big time - 'buy me! buy me! buy me!' Occasionally I can practice restraint, but not very often!
Just wondering if you ladies buy fabrics only when needed for projects, or you also collect fabrics just like me. Pls tell me that I'm not the only one who's doing this!
Not only both of you ladies...counting me up too....I've been fabricaholic since I was teenager. whenever I went for fabric shopping seeing more some beautiful fabric after shopping was done and my money ran out of my purse so fast until I couldn't buy them more. I couldn't sleep...they were always on mine..then the next day I returned to that store and took them home with happiness......
09-01-2010, 12:13 AM
#92
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I don't think your alone :lol:
I also will impulse buy fabrics that have called me to me when I have no project in mind for them. However, these days I am only buying what I need for a specific project as my main goal is to finish building our house. Mainly being the operative word here as yes I slip up occasionally :roll:
Maybe1day
I also will impulse buy fabrics that have called me to me when I have no project in mind for them. However, these days I am only buying what I need for a specific project as my main goal is to finish building our house. Mainly being the operative word here as yes I slip up occasionally :roll:
Maybe1day
09-01-2010, 05:37 AM
#93
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I, too, have a problem of cutting into beautiful fabric. What if I need it for a better project and it would be just the perfect piece?? Or, what if I cut into it and ruin it. I have nightmares about that. I have a large stash, but I love every piece I've bought. I just need to get over this problem and start quilting!
09-01-2010, 06:39 AM
#94
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That's pretty and I love purples of any shade!
This is what I did with my batiks.
Originally Posted by k9dancer
Originally Posted by Quilting Nana
I usually use what I buy except my batiks. I have a problem cutting into those beautiful pieces. :oops:
09-01-2010, 06:47 AM
#95
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Face it - quilter's LOVE fabric and whether we need it or not, we have to make it ours to play with it and look at. I have some fabric that is so pretty I just can't even cut it...isn't that sad? Fabric is like having toys to me.
09-01-2010, 11:14 AM
#98
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Originally Posted by vivientan
Originally Posted by Lynnejean
If you haven't read my fabricaholic induction club story, here is the link
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-57114-1.htm
Its self explanatory. :-)
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-57114-1.htm
Its self explanatory. :-)
09-01-2010, 12:49 PM
#99
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Originally Posted by IBQUILTIN
My DH collects antique cars, and I never expect him to drive them, My brother collects stamps, and Lordy, Lordy, if one accidently gets used as postage. My son collects guns, and surely he isn't expected to shoot them much, so I collect fabric, I am a quilter so sometimes I use a little of it, but mostly its a collection and I don't intend to ever have time enough to use it all up
09-01-2010, 12:51 PM
#100
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Originally Posted by k9dancer
Originally Posted by Quilting Nana
I usually use what I buy except my batiks. I have a problem cutting into those beautiful pieces. :oops:
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