Fabric.com - Make It Stop!
03-05-2013, 09:03 AM
#11
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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This is why I'm glad that I LOVE scrappy quilts...I will go on Fabric.com and buy just a half-yard of all the lovely fabrics I can't live without. It's still hard to get away from that site without spending at least a hundred bucks though. They just have SO MUCH COOL STUFF! LOL
03-05-2013, 09:21 AM
#12
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: S. W. Indiana
Posts: 7,484
Waiting for me in my in-box this morning was an email from fabric.com advertising hundreds of fabrics for $4.95 a yard. I need more fabric like I need a hole in the head. $120 later (includes shipping to Canada), I bought 18.5 yards. Which for Canada, works out to $6.20 a yard and that's an excellent price. I justified it by deciding that I needed some colourful pink quilt backs for some baby girl quilts that I am making. I added some backing for baby boys, backing for a kit that I have coming in the mail, and a black and white stripe that I want to use for binding some baby quilts.
I've never subjected myself to a fabric morotorium, but I see that many people adhere to the "only buy more fabric if I need it for a specific project" rule. Since I know where all these are going, it's allowed, right? Because the armoir where I keep my stash is jammed and I have no place to store this new yardage that's on its way...I just want someone to tell me it's OK.
I've never subjected myself to a fabric morotorium, but I see that many people adhere to the "only buy more fabric if I need it for a specific project" rule. Since I know where all these are going, it's allowed, right? Because the armoir where I keep my stash is jammed and I have no place to store this new yardage that's on its way...I just want someone to tell me it's OK.
((((((((((((((((Kate))))))))))))))
I threw my Hancock's catalog away. And I need to throw the Connecting Threads away too!
03-05-2013, 09:24 AM
#13
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: S. W. Indiana
Posts: 7,484
I concur that you are doing the right thing at buying more fabric! I justify it because it's my thing ... I don't smoke, drink excessively, participate in wild parties, buy lots of shoes, etc. Besides the fabric was on sale and will be more expensive tomorrow ... right? !! 
03-05-2013, 09:36 AM
#14
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Madison, Alabama
Posts: 60
I like to look at stocking up on fabric, like those folks who stock up on food and water for the "just in case". My husband and I are federal employees, because of sequetration, our hours at work are going to be cut 20% beginning (each) at the end April and last for at least five months. DH wanted me to stock up on T.P. and hamburger~but alas I have quietly been stocking up on fabric!!!!!!! Shhhhh ...don't tell....we may have to use the scraps as TP!!!!
03-05-2013, 10:57 AM
#15
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: East Oklahoma - pining for Massachusetts
Posts: 10,477
--...I just want someone to tell me it's OK. --
IT'S OKAY!!! I will never tell someone they cannot buy fabric. You deserve it. As soon as the tax money gets here, I am treating myself, because I deserve it too. :-)
IT'S OKAY!!! I will never tell someone they cannot buy fabric. You deserve it. As soon as the tax money gets here, I am treating myself, because I deserve it too. :-)
03-05-2013, 12:13 PM
#16
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Posts: 599
Oh my dear ladies, thank you for your support!!! I do have other vices besides fabric (food, shelter and keeping my two kids in university to name 3) but I love getting that package in the mail containing new creative possibilities. THANKS for telling me it's OK! I feel much better now. 
03-05-2013, 12:43 PM
#18
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 903
I get the email, go to the site, add a bunch of stuff to a design wall, consider all my choices, then empty the wall and go on about my day. Of course if I'm in the mood to spend money - then into the cart it goes. I'm the same way in a retail store. Will walk around clutching some prize for an hour, then put it back and leave the store. Sometimes I just can't pry open my wallet (then again, once open all my money fights to get out) Completely unpredictable.
03-05-2013, 04:23 PM
#19
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Finger Lakes, NY
Posts: 1,873
I, too, got the email and couldn't resist the tempation, even tho I really don't need any fabric. I only spent about $85. My DH and I went out to dinner at Outback Sunday and we spent $45 on two dinners. I just figure I won't go out to dinner a couple of times and it will pay for the fabric I bought. That's my justification and I'm sticking to it.
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