orangeroom

Oh, this is such a good laugh! Thanks! I, too, am a fabriholic...to a point. I'm kept busy with work, children and regular day to day stuff. Luckily I work 12 hour days, so by the time I'm driving past one of the LQS on my way home from work, they're already closed. I'm trying to be good. If I get in the mood to 'just look' I go to JoAnn's. I'm a touchy-feely kind of person. If I touch and feel the poorer quality fabric there, I'm good and I won't buy anything. I do not look at the quilter's quality fabric...or I may find something. I do have quite the stash, but I have a smidge more room, if I really wanted to buy something. Usually I just buy when I go on shop hops. Did I mention I LOVE shop hops! Good luck with your quest to decrease your fabric purchases. Maybe just touch the poor quality fabric!

KalamaQuilts

I went on the fabric wagon in 2001 so know it can be done. It was harder than quitting smoking I think. Not as hard as losing weight
I don't read the moratorium thread, too much wink wink going on.

Foxflower

I'm gonna go look....sounds like a good idea. Thanks Paper Princess.

Maybe this is really and internet addiction more than anything, or a chore phobia......

Quilty-Louise

I too am a fabrocholic. If I didn't buy any more fabric for the next 10 years
and made a queen size quilt top every week for those 10 years I still don't
think I would run out of fabric.

What has been my BIGGEST down fall is the LQS that I go too. They buy
and resale fabric from customers by the pound.

Their pricing structure is:

LQS quality: $5.00/yd
CS quality: $1.99/yd
FQ's LQS quality: $1.50 each
FQ's CS quality: .50 each
F8's: .85 each
Zippers (20+ colors, 12" long): .99 each

They also have a wide variety of buttons, and yarn (which I never buy).

(CS quality is chain store like Joann's, Hobby Lobby, etc...)


So with that said can you see why I have a problem with buying fabric?
I totally understand the need to stop buying though.

MadQuilter

It helped me to take stock of what I had and put everything away. I realized the insanity that is my sewing room so I decided that I needed to seriously curtail my fabric shopping. Now I try to limit purchases to items that support an ongoing project, or something I truly "just gotta have" AND I make myself shop from the stash for all new projects. It has worked - sort of. If you read the moratorium thread, you'll find me having fallen off the wagon a time or two. In general, I can say that the approach works. I actually don't feel bad when I buy something now because I know that I thought about it.

Next weekend, I'm going to a quilt show and I know that I will buy a fabric package - but it is to gift to a quilty friend in Germany. That way I get to feed the beast without actually keeping the goods.

Foxflower

madquilter, sounds like sensible advice....except I already have things "put away" but dónt have anymore space. And, I refuse to put it under my mattress.

We have a small house, 2 small children and lots of animals, so I have to control the fabric! (No sewing room available).

Kalamaquilts.....thanks for letting me know it can be done. So, if I can control my fabric maybe I can lose some weight too....Less time shopping for fabric on the internet might help with that!

Foxflower

Orangeroom.....I don't have that much control. If I'm in JoAnns something is going out the door with me for sure. Being busy with kids helps some, but they love fabric too!!!! Little enablers. Its hard to resist a 4 year old pointing and saying he NEEDS it for his farm quilt and an 8 year old planning her projects.

Nilla

I love looking in various shops. I have a very nice shop close by (it's my go to LQS) and many others within a nice driving distance so it really isn't my fault. Oh, and Lancaster is only 2ish hours away and I go there several times a year. I'll never be able to use all my fabric, yet I still buy more. I don't shop on line because I love to shop in person so much.

Pat625

I am also in the fabric moratorium..accountability helps us keep a rein on spending...There is also a stash busters challenge on the board. This will encourage you to use the stash you have

SuzieQuilts

I too, am a fabriholic. I have joined the moratorium and it does help. However, I still have to purchase fabric to finish UFO's and special projects for people. It has slowed my fabric spending wamy down. Alcoholics say " I can quit any time I want to. Fabriholics say " I am not going to buy another piece of fabric until I sew up what I have on hand." I don't think it would be ten years, but I bet I could sew another 3 years on a regular basis, and still have enough fabric.