Hello my name is Luv, and Im a fabri-holic.....
05-12-2012, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by sandy l
Well as it's been said "stuff expands to meet the existing space" whether in our case fabric and related items, or tools in the garage
05-12-2012, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim's Gem
Hi, my name is Gayle and I am a fabriholic too......
Most of my stash is in my sewing room or the garage right next to it but my rubbermaid tubs full of fabric seem to be multiplying. I don't know how this is happening......
Most of my stash is in my sewing room or the garage right next to it but my rubbermaid tubs full of fabric seem to be multiplying. I don't know how this is happening......
Your DGD's name is fabulous! If I can ever get my kids to get with the program & have kids (what's wrong with kids these days? Did they start making them without hormones or what???, I'd love to have a DGD or two with such beautiful names. Tho, knowing my luck, I'd get said DGD & they'd name her "Toenail" or something "trendy". Sheesh!
05-12-2012, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by ljptexas
Oh, by the way, Gayle. I have 2 GD with similar great names!!! Hannah Grace & Naomi Olivia. My daughter gave all 5 of her kids names from the Bible (altho don't know about Olivia).....
05-12-2012, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by wildyard
I just don't understand when people (who are not quilters, btw) comment on how much fabric I have. Don't they realize that I am barely keeping ahead of the fabric famine that is sure to hit the moment I fall below a certain level of stash? Is it my fault I don't know what that level is so must work constantly to keep the stash healthy and stave off fabric doom? I, too, can resist highly priced materials. LOL, can? make that must, as the budget doesn't allow. But man can I hit the thrift stores and stretch that budget dollar. Show me a fabric bargain and I see my duty and I do it!! Of course it's not an addiction, not a lack of control!! I'm a grown person acting responsibly and taking my obligations seriously. Yeah, that's it!
05-12-2012, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by EllenwoodGa
I also have my fabric in plastic bins, I only have four. The problem is that I never use that fabric, I buy new fabric each time I start a new project. What is that about?
2 packages that I'd ordered from MO Star came today & when DH "looked" at me, I explained that my fabic was such a mess that I couldn't find what I needed & if you can't find it, it means it doesn't exist. Yes, that's what we call "magical thinking" & it works like a charm! Try it!
05-12-2012, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by leggz48
I am just the opposite....I seem to buy (compulsive) fabric that I think is pretty, but it is always just a tad less than I need when I start a project. My husband always asks me "Why don't you buy more???" I guess I should listen, huh, and just get a 1/2 yard more than I originally thought to buy, just in case!.
05-13-2012, 06:56 AM
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I have had a great deal of fun reading all of these posts.
I did (operative word) have all of my stash in my sewing room. Then we bought a freezer. Didn't want it in the bedroom or guest room ( the noise wakes people up) so it ended in the sewing room. Soooo... some of my UFO's ended up on the guest room and bedroom shelves. I keep hand projects by my chair in the living room - there are now 7 of those. Since I am chair of our guild's charity quilt project my carport storage has 20 tubs of fabric in it that isn't even mine.
My kids keep asking if I'm a hoarder. My answer is "only fabric". I have a list of quilting friends to give my stash to if I die anytime soon.
I recently had a friend who had cancer. She had a 3% chance of living for 2 weeks, a 10% chance if living through surgery. She was telling me she wanted me to have her UFO's. Fortunately, she made it through surgery. Since I helped her set up her sewing room I know how many she had (over 200). I probably wouldn't live long enough to finish hers and mine. Now she can work on her own.
I'm currently trying to finish UFO's to make more room for? new fabric?
I just bought some of the thermo batting to make hot pads with my orphan blocks. They will go in my "gifting" stash. I started a place for them since I was always forgetting where I put gifts that I made or purchased ahead of time for Christmas and other gifting times.
I did (operative word) have all of my stash in my sewing room. Then we bought a freezer. Didn't want it in the bedroom or guest room ( the noise wakes people up) so it ended in the sewing room. Soooo... some of my UFO's ended up on the guest room and bedroom shelves. I keep hand projects by my chair in the living room - there are now 7 of those. Since I am chair of our guild's charity quilt project my carport storage has 20 tubs of fabric in it that isn't even mine.
My kids keep asking if I'm a hoarder. My answer is "only fabric". I have a list of quilting friends to give my stash to if I die anytime soon.
I recently had a friend who had cancer. She had a 3% chance of living for 2 weeks, a 10% chance if living through surgery. She was telling me she wanted me to have her UFO's. Fortunately, she made it through surgery. Since I helped her set up her sewing room I know how many she had (over 200). I probably wouldn't live long enough to finish hers and mine. Now she can work on her own.
I'm currently trying to finish UFO's to make more room for? new fabric?
I just bought some of the thermo batting to make hot pads with my orphan blocks. They will go in my "gifting" stash. I started a place for them since I was always forgetting where I put gifts that I made or purchased ahead of time for Christmas and other gifting times.
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