Me too! ~:D

of course i buy fabric just because...it's pretty! i figure that one day when i am ready to use it, i could find some coordinating fabric to go with it. or, i could make a market bag by using two coordinating fat quarters.

I am very much into collections of lines so I tend to buy a yard of each. I'm not good at picking out coordinating fabric so I let the designers do it for me. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed at all I have that it's just easier to buy kits so I have everything (including pattern) I need.

If the price is right, I buy!

Once in a blue moon, I only have about 3-4 just because fabrics, the rest are for specific projects

Guilty! I started liking I Spy quilts and collecting interesting FQ's. Then I joined some swaps, and needed a yard of each, and why not get an extra 1/2 to allow for shrinkage and cutting errors. Then $ was pretty tight, so I'd buy a few yards to stock up whenever there was a Really good clearance sale. Good thing I like scrappy quilts! i was never able to find something when I needed to, which led to the stocking up. Now fabrics are available online if my LQS doesn't have them so while I may occasionally buy some focus fabric I don't feel I need to get coordinates. Besides- I can just shop the stash!

I'm mostly a scrappy quilter so I usually buy one yard pieces....and then scraps of it show up in most every quilt for YEARS!

Or until I get so tired of seeing it that I pass it on to someone else:D

Guilty! and proud of it!

When I first started quilting I did just that and now have oodells of focal fabric and precious little blenders.
I'm now on a strickt blenders or solids only diet.

Yes when it is on sale or I have a coupon. Lately though if I find fabric thjat I like I also get another piece that matches.

I think we would all agree with this.

Absolutely! All the time.

I'd like to say, "absolutely not." But I would be lying. I will say that 80% of my stash was purchased for a specific project in mind.
Justamom410, I love the middle diagonal stripe fabrics. Also the butterflies. Can I come shop in your stash?

Yup, if I find fabric that I love and just can't live without, its going in my cart. I figure something out for it later.

Hah, ALL the time.

The girls at Joann's often ask me what I'm working on...most of the time my answer is, "Not sure yet! The fabric will tell me what it wants to be later, after it's met all its new siblings."

I like having a big enough stash that, when I get an idea, I have at least half of what I need on hand. Then I love shopping for the other half! LOL

Most of the fabric I have is just because it spoke to me. That is why I have pretty much banned myself from all fabric stores. My stash has gotten out of control. I have made my last 4 quilts almost completely from my stash. This includes the backs. I have been piecing my backs. I try to use the scraps of fabric from the quilt then add stuff from my stash. I did get a ton of fabric from yard sales, but still there is too much.

YEAH, what she said!! I am doing my civic duty to keep quilt shops in business~~!!

LoL Only Us FABRAHOLIC'S Sounds like You have the 'Virus' Thats what happens when you become a Quilter! Welcome to the Club Your a Fabraholic Too. :)

Had to add this: I have a Room FULL of Fabrics Bought Just this Way! and It working The way out the Door at this very Minute! LoL

Just bought 14 yards of the stuff. 4 yards for a project and the other 10 will find a use for. My bad.

i think all quilters are guilty of it.. hence the stash.... which never seems to get used except just a bit in a few pieces but we have lots to pick from...lol... and then another sale and here we go again...lol....

I can't find fabric if I'm looking for a specific one, but if I'm not, I find tons. I guess that's how I happened to have 6 shelving units crammed full from top to bottom. Oh, I love to look at it. I have it arranged by color and it's my piece of "art" in my sewing room!

I limit my fabric to buying only when I am in a quilt shoppe!!!!!!

I'm pretty good about buying only what I need for a specific project. I learned that things I buy on impulse didn't get used. If I have no idea for a project for the fabric I don't buy it no matter how much I like it. I like to use collections that designers have put together. Designers come up with new collections every season. I know I will always find something I like. I never put myself on a schedule for a quilt, so I can wait till I find exactly what I want. I used 2 LQSs and 2 or 3 online quilt shops, Like Keepsake Quilting and Norton.

I have three huge totes of "just because" or "screaming sale" fabrics.

yep...all the time.....and eventually it speaks to me and let`s me know what to do with it...lol isn`t it just fun!!!

Thanks CoyoteMagic for my laugh for the day (on page one of this thread). At first I thought you were serious and I thought "how sad". Absolutely I buy something if I love it and someday it might actually get used. One of my problems, I like it so much I don't want to use it because then I won't have it any more. Anyone else do that?

There must be other "Major League" fabric buyers lurking here besides me. You sandlot folks have to step up. We travel, often hundreds and even thousands of miles to add to my stash. We have been making 3-4 major trips a year and a then some less than a week trips in between. Any expenses on these trips always include various fab fabric shopping destinations. I have even had to mail large packages of fabrics home on extended trips. My favorite so far? Marden's in Maine!
If we're not traveling, I am piecing tops and making room for more stash additions! Love my life!

When I can afford it I sure do.

My LQS had her annual "clearing out" sale. It's a really small shop and when she cleans out there are great deals to be had I've not had a chance to total up all the yardage yet.

90% of the fabric i have is bought with no project planned but with good intentions lol then i pick out a pattern and buy more to go with it.

Oh yes, I have plastic storage containers with fabric, if I made 30 big qults I might start to run out.

YES, I thought all quilters bought fabric just because!

Funny...the middle diagonal stripe is one I saw on the clearance pile. Then I remembered seeing the other 2 stripe colors on the floor and thought, wow, those would look awesome with black sashing! So I went back for the other 2 colors...even though they weren't clearance (but they were on sale!). The butterflies I bought intending them for a project, but then replaced them with something else!

My husband is unemployed right now...so I have to limit my spending on fabric. I got to enjoy this "spree" because I sold some of my daughter's too small clothes at a local consignment sale. I could be very dangerous in a LQS...which is why I stick to Joanns.

In July my LQS closed (both wonderful owners have degenerative dieases!) With the final prices 40% off, YES I bought a lot of fabric "just because". In fact, most of the fabric I buy is for that reason. If you like it, it won't be there next time. I have a large stash. I can start a quilt at a moment's notice from what's on hand, which is very good because my closest fabric store is a 150 mile round trip.

Not me, nope. Wouldn't do that. I buy them 'just in case'. You never know, right?

I sometimes buy apiece that is " just too pretty" to leave in the store. I have no idea what I'll make with it but I just have to take a yard of it home with me.

Welcome to the fabriholics club. You have an addiction there is no cure but it's heaps of fun. Welcome to QB too.

It has been my experience that if you really, really like something, get it because you will always like it. Then inspiration will strike when you least expect it and you have the stuff to go after it.