Marguerite

No and No
That's just too efficient

cullodenking

Oh, those poor souls with no fabric on hand to be inspired by! My theory is that if the pattern calls for half a yard then one yard is better and two yards must be even better yet! Yes, I love fabric...good fabric especially... so I try to keep as much on hand as possible.

joann hussey

my name is JoAnn{like the store] and I have quite a bit of fabric in my stash! I use to buy because I had to have it! now I look and say why did I buy that, but been buying for years. My quilting friends call it JoAnn's bargain basement. you always need a color that is a perfect fit for your quilt, just have to go to the store to get but , now I only get what I need . A quilt shop visit always make you feel good. I try to support the local quilt shops they have fabic you won't find in JoAnn's

cyniree

I don't need to have fabric to inspire me, I get inspiration from going to online quilt shop. I can look and look, and save me money until I find the right fabric.

Mousie

Oh my goodness...I have never ever been able to do that!
I go in a fabric store, with certain colors, or items on the brain, and see other stuff, that would go with my 'bundles'...I am a quirky quilter...I bundle all coordinating fabrics, in bundles, according to project,...and if I am shopping and come across fabs that would go with something, I snatch it up...most likely will not see it again.
What planet are these one project at a time, people from, lol...it is to be admired, but I could never imitate! They must be so organized, so systematical and disciplined...and lonely! lol!
My fabrics are my friends and my family. They love me, and I love them. I have to go in their just to gaze and pet and talk to them sometimes, promising that their day will come, and we will make great things together! I am in a quilty world, in cave! happiness abounds :XD:

Kara

Really ???? People do that ????

I've never been able to do that. I count the rest as stash builders. And one is never done before I'm buying more fabric. I never know what I'll be in the mood to do.

Ducky

QCrazy, I couldn't agree with you more when it comes to bundling. I do that, too. In my fabric closet I have many, many colors and fabric patterns that my husband is sure I may never see again or use in this lifetime.

See...sadly, my biggest problem is that I've gone from being satisfied with Joann, WalMart, Hobby Lobby fabrics to the more expensive and deadly-for-the-addiction quilting stores. Oh, the heart palpitations with a batik I haven't seen (or touched) before, or the gorgeous Asian fabrics, or "Oooooooh! What a wonderful color of....." I'm a sick woman. :roll:

My income is now affected, so I will see just how strong my will is. I seriously plan on going through my closet and get reacquainted with some of my "friends" I haven't seen in years.

BTW, I truly admire people who can work on and buy for only one project at a time...it's not in my genetic makeup and can't comprehend how to do that. My husband would be very organized like that if he quilted. I'm too impulsive. :oops:

Mousie

Ducky, we must be kin.
i am slowly, liking the more expensive fabrics too. We have a really niiiice store here...hers is usually $8 up^!....but it is beautiful stuff.
I was able to stay away for two years...was sick...didn't go anywhere, or do anything...but alas, I recently went in, and spent 92.00!
crazy about what I got, mind you...but, my budget cannot handle it!
I don't have any biases about fabrics, as long as you can't see 'grainy' lines, or see thru it, I'm good with it, but some of those pricier ones, are just so gorgeous and feel so, I-want-to-go-home-with-you.
Did you know you could read a fabrics, emotions, by touching? lol!
I read their little minds like braille.
I will be working on a project, and have my mind on another...all the time. I am just starting to accept it. I am in the zone, when I channel all thoughts and energy on project in front of me...I usually can do that on machine...cutting, drawing, sorting...i'm all over the place. oh well, it's all fun! :D

MadQuilter

DH and I are going to visit some friends in the Bay Area tomorrow. I already printed the map quest directions to the Thimblecreek quilt store in Concord. WHY I'm going to this holy grail of fabric, I have no idea. Why I am exposing myself to the temptation of color and texture of my drug of choice (fabric) I do not know. I do know that I NEED more fabric like I need a hole in the head, and I bet that I will not leave the store empty-handed.

bearisgray

I used to think I was free of addictions - don't smoke, can make a wine-cooler last a day, will stop gambling at a casino after losing $20 - - -

but I do have to admit to two - fabric and chocolate.