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Originally Posted by MadQuilter

DH and I are going to visit some friends in the Bay Area tomorrow. I already printed the map quest directions to the Thimblecreek quilt store in Concord. WHY I'm going to this holy grail of fabric, I have no idea. Why I am exposing myself to the temptation of color and texture of my drug of choice (fabric) I do not know. I do know that I NEED more fabric like I need a hole in the head, and I bet that I will not leave the store empty-handed.

LOL! I would say we should form an FA (Fabrics Anonymous) group, but I, quite frankly, am NOT ready to quit (twitch, twitch). I don't have a problem....I can quit anytime I want (twitch, twitch).

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Originally Posted by Ducky

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Originally Posted by MadQuilter

LOL! I would say we should form an FA (Fabrics Anonymous) group, but I, quite frankly, am NOT ready to quit (twitch, twitch). I don't have a problem....I can quit anytime I want (twitch, twitch).

Card holding member here!

Always afraid of a family intervention happening here :lol: :lol:

DD gave me a gift card to Belks for m-day. I ask why not a card for fabric and she said mama, you don't need any more material, you need clothes!!

When I get low on a color, say blues, less than 20, I start to get sick at my stomach and know that I have to have a fix!

Ninnie

LOL, Ninnie! I can only slowly nod my head in acknowledgment.

Recentlly, I couldn't believe it when I went to my stash, and I was almost out of purple. Time to shop!

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Originally Posted by MadeinMaine

When it comes to fabric, the word "ENOUGH" is not in my dictionary :D Besides, I deserve it !! :lol: :lol:

woo hoo, my sentiments exactly! :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by pittsburgpam

I sometimes buy for a specific design.... but I'm pretty sure that my last purchase of 17 yards for a 100"x100" quilt WAS a bit much. :mrgreen:

Pam, did you ever find out, what happened to your package?

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Originally Posted by ghostrider

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Originally Posted by MsSage

I now have 2.5 18 gal tubs of fabric

I have 30 27 gallon tubs so I obviously don't buy "per project". Never have, probably never will, but I love being able to design projects based solely on yardage already in my stash (I don't do scrappy). My income is also limited, but fabric and batting are the only extras I buy and quilts are all I give as gifts. It balances out. I call it a health expense...mental health! :)

wow, I'm on my way to your house. You donate to the 'needy', right? And you obviously believe in a healthy state of mind...well, if I saw that much fabric, just sitting, I would 'need' to plunder, and if we filled up a few yard size trash bags for me to take as 'gift', lol...well, that would be a healthy feeling indeed :mrgreen:
Just trying to help you out. I'm just good that way. Now, where to put it?
Hmmm, guess nobody needs to sleepover on bed in pc room,
here, lol. :D

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Originally Posted by Skeat

Here I am!!:)That is exactly what I do!LOL Here's the facts of why...I am too cheap! The only time I buy fabric that is not for a project is an occassional fat quarter. That is it. I buy from a list for a specific project(s)...and, sometimes that will continue for awhile depending on the project. I stack my boxes and baskets w/a tag hanging off the fron't of them to tell me what project it is for and if there is still a need to fill on the inside of that:). Sometimes we are in a mood to applique, sometimes something crazy and then other times a sampler...any which way-I am ready or almost:)I'd love to go to a fabric store and just buy 3yrds of this or 3yrds of that...but, even if you gave me a $100 to do that....I'd never be able to decide. I'd stand there for days trying to debate if it was fabric I actually could use, if it is just cute at the moment....and will it be outdated before I'd get to it...then the practical side kicks in w/'you have plenty to do at home'....which works unless I find something I have to make now...which causes me to buy for just that project:)I wish I could just stack fabrics! Maybe someone needs to hold my hand and pull me thru the process to the register!LOL Skeat

well, Skeat, some would feel sorry for you, but I wish I were more like this...sometimes, lol.
I think it's bc I have grandbabies. I am not just a quilter...eegads, we have a 'sewer' in our mist...(hex signs...back you beast)...just kidding, I know that there are others, who do sewing projects, and not just quilts.
Saying, that a lot of my stuff, is bought with abandon, bc i cannot resist, 'cute'. I am a sucker for it.
In reality, if I don't become a machine demon, pretty soon, all four, will outgrow these fabrics. Guess i will make charity quilts then...for children.
Part of me, just never grew up, all the way. I love kiddy stuff. I love sappy, and cute, and frilly, and oh, you name it. If it's fun, i'm there. :wink:
You must be very organized, and don't have stuff spilling over, hogging all your house space, and hubby is content.
My hubby has learned to live with me having the biggest room in the house...and I have mentioned more than once, that we should have taken this room for our bedroom, but, the one we use, has the master bath.
anywhoo, he is just afraid, that one day, this room is going to explode and consume another room. Hey, what's wrong with that, I ask?
I have gotten better, about budgeting, and really good, at rearranging to find more room, lol.
I try to be frugal, and do ok, till it comes to the babies. SUCKER! see it on my forehead? lol. I am a good nana, though, and they have to pick up toys, eat in dining room, and cannot watch parent no-no tv programs.
I said, I'm sentimental, doesn't mean, I don't do what's good for them.
I'm balanced in everyroom except a fabric store...there...depends on the day, and my wallet. :wink:

Hey quiltncrazy - my feeling is that the MBR doesn't need to be the biggest BR in the house. Just needs to be big enough for a bed, closet & dresser - and of course needs to be close to a bathroom. The BIGGEST room in the HOUSE has to be big enough to hold my STASH! Or in my case 2 rooms. The smallest room in the house holds my 2 sewing machines & serger, a small closet full of batting and sewing stuff, 2 dressers full of STASH & scraps, all upper walls lined with bookcases full of STASH, and a filing cabinet with patterns & other stuff. The biggest bedroom has bookcases with STASH, an ironing board, a big cutting table with STASH under it, a chair hidden under WIPs, 2 small dressers with scraps and 4 small dressers with languishing (I love that word) other crafts (scrapbooking & pictures, jewelry-making stuff & beads). My design wall is in the hall between the 2 rooms. I suppose I should take pictures - but I have to finish the black and white exchange blocks first. I'll take a picture of the STASH and sewing room when I do that AND a picture for my new avatar. Whew ! I can't believe I just said all that.

organized?Me..?LOL I like to think it is more of a method to madness!LOL
Dh happy?Well, what's that old saying...'happy wife makes for a happy life?!' After purchasing the past 2 years a cutting table...my 6600 for more zoom and throat space...and, the table for it to go on...oh, and the goodwill shelves...and plastic drawers for scraps...I don't know if he's 'happy' for I still don't have that gracie frame yet...:)LOL Skeat