some of your fabrics ?
I look at how cute some of the fabrics are and I can't go in and cut the heads or bodies apart in the fabrics.
Does this affect others also ?

I really don't have that problem. I do mostly scrap quilts and sometimes I'm sad when I use the last of a favorite fabric:)

Yes I have the half naked men fabric and it really hurts to cut them in half :)

LOL

LOL X 2

ROFLMBO !!

I don't like to cut up little bodies. But when I have fabric like that I try to use it in larger pieces to show it off better.

LOL X 3

Same problem for me! I have a fabric that I for years have put a piece in each scrap quilt that I make...I have very little left and it will be a sad day when I use the last bit.

Nope not me! I get great joy out of cutting up fabric even if it has bodies on it.
If you imagine the body as being someone you really can't stand then you shouldnt have any problems. LOL!!

i have a lot of antique japanese and chinese textiles and i always hate cutting them up.

i think it bothers me so much because it gets harder and harder to find the really antique pieces.

but they are little kitties and turtles :(

nope, cutting is my FAVORITE part, then i KNOW it BELONGS to a specific project and it's not just staring back at me!

X3 ! hahahahahahahahahaha

X3 ! hahahahahahahahahaha

You're simply dividing the litter and giving them space to grow into beautiful individuals. Just because you can't see the "whole" body, doesn't make them any less beautiful on the inside :)

Dreamer, one time I bought these really cute gingerbread boys wax candles, the kind you put in a burner with a votive underneath. I told the seller they were too cute to burn and I was afraid they would start screaming for me to blow the votive out!! She thought it was so funny that she put it in her listing lol

omgosh~~~I wouldn't want to light it ither.
Burning gingerbread man :(

I did some fussy cutting today rather than multilate the characters. It won't take much of that to cure me. Too tedious.

Yes I have a great deal of trouble cuting up pancy fabric, I think I have some of every pancy i have ever seen and it sits in a basket in my sewing room like it is queen of the sewing room , knowing it will be a very long time before it sees the edge of the blade on my cutter. I just love this fabric. Cathy

Unfortunately they haven't made a naked men fabric with the type of body that houses my one son-in-law - I would buy bolts of it and slash away to my heart's content!!!

lol! yes! there is even a pattern called "just can't cut it"!
you can use those types of fabrics in large block quilts, like this one..

these are large blocks!

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/projec...h-light_1.html

Yep, been there. Done that. Sometimes I just have to look away and cut!!

I have that problem. I simply put a grid and backing and a binding on some fall fabric because I could not bear to cut
it. It's just so nice in one whole piece.

I am also cutting out one right now that has a Charlie Brown
Easter theme to it. I am cutting the blocks so that Lucy
sitting in a whole bunch of eggs is complete on the block.
I'm wasting a lot of fabric, but I think it would look really
stupid with cutting bodies in half.

If there's a way other than destroying a pattern, I will do it.
Another suggestion is if you can't get around it, use the fabric
as backing for the quilt. Then you don't have to cut anything.

Nope, I just cut away. I always think long and hard about the pattern I am going to use to compliment the fabric. But when I decide I have no problem slicing and dicing.

Unfortunately they haven't made a naked men fabric with the type of body that houses my one son-in-law - I would buy bolts of it and slash away to my heart's content!!![/quote]

Sounds like you have issues with you SIL. So sorry.

cjomomma, you are too funny!

I used to until I remembered that was the whole point.

Some of these new fabrics are so beautiful I just can't cut them. Make whole cloth quilts out of them.

LOL X 4!

Where can I find the half naked men fabric?!?!?!?!
ROTFL!!!

Nice Link

T*H*A*N*K*S

I do not like cutting, my fabric at all.

Sounds like you have issues with you SIL. So sorry.[/quote]

You could say that ........... only one of them. He's a "user" and I absolutely detest users.

I have the same problem. I am making doll clothes for my GD and keep thinking this should be in a quilt. I also am making smaller quilts for charity and keep thinking the material was a good match for the doll clothes. If I followed my feeling for the fabric I'd never make anything.
Barbara W

yes i have some fabric i keep putting off using because i like it so much i want to make sure i find that perfect quilt to use it i

Which half do you keep? LOL

I had a friend who had a Chippendales calendar. She wondered why I didn't want one. I told her that the only muscle they had I might be interested in seeing was covered up.

naughty girl...roflmbo

In your mind think....those little kitties pooped on my carpet instead of in their litter box...this will each them...chop chop chop...

In your mind think...those darn little turtles TALKED THE Kitties into pooping on the carpet instead of in their litter box....CHOP CHOP CHOP.....that will teach you!!!

There now you shouldn't have any more troubles chopping off their little heads.