NO! You are not a fabric addict. You are a wonderful, smart, creative person who enjoys fabrics to create beautiful things!!! Painters need paint, computer programers need computers, brick layers need bricks, etc. We NEED fabric.

In stitches,
Roberta

I'm a total fabric addict, some people crave chocolate, well ok I like that too, but give me fabric anytime. I love that analogy, I'm an artist and fabrics are my tools, I'm going to make that my new mantra :D

Yes, just like the rest of us! I was in a LQS last weekend for some solid back fabric and I told myself before I went that I didn't need anything but the black fabric. I walked out with $179.00 worth. When the fabric catches my eye, it must go home with me!!! It screams at me.... Take me with you! I can't deny!!

How could you sew and create WITHOUT fabric? I guess you can cut up the clothes you are wearing but then you would become chilly. You can cut up your sheets on your bed but then you would have a lot of pieces in all the same color and texture AND it is very uncomfortable to sleep on a mattress without linens. You could also cut up the curtains on the windows but then you can't cut up your clothes too because then the neighbors would see you naked sitting at your machine. Go ahead. You need to buy fabric. It is a necessity.

youre hooked

I'm an addict and proud of it. :thumbup: If I'm surfing the net the family knows it's usually a fabric store of some sort or this forum. :-)

Your question can be answered "yes" without ever reading it.

Welcome to my world :thumbup:

I'm so glad you are part of this board. Allows me to admit that I'm a fabriholic, too.

Yes, but unlike other addictions, the results are positive and beautiful!

Absolutely, you are an addict!! Isn't it fun :wink: :P :wink: :-P :lol: :-P :lol:

I agree, the first dress I made was from a feedsack...I still remember how excited I was!

I prefer to call it a Fabric Collector. Yes I have some well aged Fabric in my large stash. I feel it is like fine wine. It must age before I use it. Unless it is bought for an immediate project. Kinda like buying wine for a party or the holidays. I state a stamp collector is not expected to use their stamps, so why is a quilter expected to use their stash!

I think you have joined the club!

You make me laugh!
Of course, like most of us.....you are a fabric addict! You ARE VERY LUCKY to be broke! If you weren't, you'd end up with an ENDLESS stash like me. If I were to use all the fabric that I 'fell in love' with, it would make over a thousand great quilts!
How on earth am I ever going to quilt fast enough to use up all this fabric......or maybe I could just become an addicted fabric fondler!! Hummm, I wonder....so they have a FABRIC FONDLER'S website?

Ooooh, I like what you said!!!!

yep! :thumbup:

Told hubby that if I should bite the big one anytime soon, for heaven's sake don't take the totes of fabric to the landfill. There could be BIG $$ for him from the fabric if he took the time to ebay it

I seem to have a problem of turning down a good fabric buy

LOL! If you don't mind SunlitenSmiles, I'm going to use your logic as my own reasonable explanation. ;)

Rhaorth - you are joined by all of us who share this happy addiction!

So true! So true! :) I've had similar things to say to my DH & kids!

Of course you are.....we all are. It's incurable so enjoy it. :lol:

You are and it's wonderful to be one!!!

ROFL... I realized the other day when I went out to the store, I was covered in threads from ripping apart some clothes for cutting up.

god I was soooo covered!! dang threads get everywhere

aww shucks, we are in very good company :)

I call it a fabricolic. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!!!! I CALL FABRIC MY LIQUOR!!!

When I went to visit my 6 yr old DGD in California last Spring, she accompanied me to a wonderful quilt shop. I loved her reaction to the fabrics.....she went all through the store feeling and touching every fabric in there and wanting me to buy it all! She asked me if I would teach her how to sew and make quilts when she comes to visit me. I would love to have her closer, she certainly is my kind of kid!

I remember hearing the talk about the movie Moulin Rouge when it came out and it being described as eye-candy! I had never heard the term before. When I finally saw it, I understood what they meant! When I walk into a fabric store the same eye-candy thing happens to me!

I often wonder why people gamble and play the slots. There is something I recognize happening to them as they see the lights flashing and hear the bells ringing. To me it is pointless. But a similar thing happens for me when I go fabric shopping! I would much rather spend my money on fabric and notions than spend it watching lights flash and bells ring, then walk away with nothing. When I get home, I've probably spent much less than they lost and I have the new additions to my stash to show for it. Plus, I can re-live that eye-candy event anytime I go wandering through it!

Seriously, I came across a site a little more than a month ago that shocked me. It was a quilting group, not unlike this board, but they vowed to not shop for fabric. Their goal was to only use fabrics from their stash and never shop for fabric again. I didn't stay long on the site because it was almost "against my religion". LOL LOL But I wondered, (and really should have checked it out at the time because I did not keep their web address) if these women had a serious shopping problem. I have several bins of dressmakers' fabric which probably won't work well with quilting, and I have a small stash of quilt fabrics, not enough to keep me happy. But I never heard tell of this being a serious problem in anyone's life. This site seemed to be geared toward women who were out of control with their quilting. I don't see myself that way, even with my dressmakers' fabric, and my yarn for crochet, and all my crafting paraphernalia. I am wondering if any others on this board see it as a real problem in their lives?

It can't be helped and I have proof!
Adapted from a quilter's newsletter in North Carolina-author unknown--
A recent study has indicated that material gives off certain pheromones tht hypnotize wemen and cause them to purchase ungodly amounts of fabric. When stored in large quantitiesin enclosed spaces, the pheromones in the fabric cause memory loss and induce the gathering syndrome, sinilar to the one squirrels have before the onset of winter.
Sound tests have also revealed that these fabrics emit a very high-pitched sound heard only by a select few, known as quilters. When played backward, the sounds are heard as chants...'Buy me! Buy me!" Furthermore, pheromones seem to cause a pathological need to secret the fabric purchases away when one takes them home and blend them with the existing stash. When asked by a significant other if the fabric in new, the reply is, "oh, I've had it for awhile!"
In order to overcome the so-called feeding frenzy effect that these fabrics cause, one must wear a facemask when entering a storage facility, and use ear plugs to avoid being pulled into their grip. It is also beneficial to enter these storage facilities without the presence of cash or credit cards.
Sad to say, the addictive qualities of this compulsive behavior are cumelative, and are ameliorated only by the purchase of more and more fabric.

we were on a road trip, yep did a uey cause I saw a quilt shop sign, the next lady that came in behind me had done the same thing - and guess what??? we both came from the same big city living within 10 miles of each other!

LOL - this made me laugh. Had a doctor's appointment a few weeks ago and the nurse had on this really cute scrub top. I really had to restrain myself from reaching out to touch it, because I was sitting there thinking how I'd love to use that fabric in a quilt. Wonder what she would have though if I would have acted on the impulse. They probably would have had the men in the white coats come lock me up. LOL

YEP,BUT WE HERE ARE IN THE SAME BOAT TOGETHER.LOL

Ther are so many of us.

Yes you are dear, aren't we all? There is not a 12 step program that will help us!

Hi! My name is BarbaraSue and I'm a fabriholic.
Please join me in the fabriholics mantra:

Love to touch the fabric
Love to hold the fabric
Love to play with the fabric
Love to hug the fabric
Love to smell the fabric ......... :)

me too :)

I totally agree!! ;)

and you know, the price of fabric is just going to keep going up, so you might as well invest while it's cheaper.....:)

Welcome to the club, best club in the world.