admitting your lapses is the first step in recovery. LOL. We all will probably be in the same boat sooner or later.

Pat

How did you know? Bought a book yesterday. Another Pat (SpotMurphy)

I have been really good and only "shopped" from my stash. I am trying to use up my scraps too making pin cushions, needle cases and draught excluders. I am feeling good!

IMO, patterns are okay if you need them within a reasonable amount of time. For someday?? - not for me.

another IMO, kateyb, you can buy the required color for your guild if you use it soon and use as much of your stash as you can. It's stash building that we overacheivers need to avoid.

Sounds like everyone is staying strong. Personally, I'm about to use 2 charm packs I don't even like. That's a first. I will need to purchase 1 yard of cream color solid, but nothing because 'It called my name.' I was in a huge JoAnn's this weekend. I carried a beautiful cream and coral rose print around and petted it, then returned it to its shelf. I hope no one minds buying used fabric. My hands were clean.

Miss Purple Shoes, I really want to see your draught excluders. I have a drafty door and it's been cold this winter. I want to make something cute. Show and tell?

I finished piecing my bargello top yesterday. Posted WIP photo of the bargello and another quilt top here this morning:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-92412-1.htm

Both are entirely from my stash so far. If my mom and dad like the look of them (I hope they do!!), I'll want to make matching borders for them, which will mean buying fabric.

so i slipped a little today.

I'm making two of my students graduation quilts -- with fabric from each of the plays that they've been in during the four years they've been with me. I have everything organized and sorted (no surprise there), but they switched up the spring musical and i needed some dr. seuss fabric (they're doing seussical).

Fine. I ordered 1 yard from fatquartershop - which will be plenty for both quilts.

I'm thinking this doesn't count as a slip because specific fabric for two specific quilts that need to be done by May.





THEN, I went ahead and ordered Kona Khaki fabric to make my sweetwater charm pack quilt. It might be next in line (after the binding on the turtle quilt, the psiquilt postage stamp quilt-a-long, the two grad quilts) -- i probably could have waited on this one.

A half slip.





THEN (!!!) I found amazing black & white letters fabric. I bought a yard. No reason (other than a "someday" words/letters quilt for me)

A full on slip. :oops: :cry:





Dang. Back to square one. I'm going to go finish the binding on that turtle quilt so I feel a little bit better.

I've been GREAT about not buying . . .

but it helps to have "Life" get in the way to prevent one from shopping :( :(

but I'll admit I did think about "treating myself" today just to have a little fun...but I was strong and didn't go near the store. :)

I was at LQS yesterday, for a class, and told the owner that she is like a drug pusher with all the pretty fabrics that she kept pulling out from her new order. She just laughed.

Pat

PS- I didn't buy anything

One tiny slip up and it wasn't my fault, at least that is what I am telling myself. My daughter has asked me to make her a quilt, she decided that she wanted the mystery from Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville, (now that she has seen the quilt) and the one colour that I have do not have a lot of is brown, so I ordered a pack from the Fat Quarter Shop.
So I guess because it is for a specific purpose that is ok right right right :cry:
I have been doing well otherwise, it helps to make a lot of scrappy charity quilts but my stash just doesn't seem to go down

jetnica, I'm sorry for your slip, but thanks for making me laugh. :lol:

Wow! If they don't like them, I'll take them both.

Missed the first post, but count me in. Presently working on UFO"S. Have all the material needed to finish all of them, & promised myself no new ones until theese are done. Glad I found this post as I will need lots of help keeping my promise.

Well, I ordered two FQ sets because they were 30% off. It was a good deal, loved the fabric, and I figure that if prices are going up for cotton that I'm only going to buy on good sales.

Jetnica :lol: :lol: :lol: thank you for this.

"Back to square one" though - no way!!! So we might slip once in a while, so hey. It doesn't nullify what we've done already. All the other purchases we've already allowed to float past each day without grabbing them. Every time we've said "thank you, but no," to all those whinging, bullying fabrics trying to call our names... That all still counts.

To me anyway.

And each time any of us does any of these things, or is gong, "Oops!! a slip..." AND CLIMBS BACK ON, we all grow stronger.

I do think so, anyway.

So, :thumbup: for climbing back on!

Made a small quilt this week. The Feng Shui system I have been studying calls for a "small square blue carpet" to put in my tiny bedroom this year... I thought I'd make that a quilt.

It's 23'' square and from stash, batting and all. In the washer right now, to get rid of the basting glue and spray.

What does Feng Shui say about quilts, SS? What about all the lines and cuts!!!

Not sure what other schools say (there are probably as many Feng Shui styles as teachers out there...). In the style I've been studying, a lot of people make their Feng Shui items as art objects, quilts or such. It's such fun to play with quiltmaking using the elements and the colors, shapes and numbers associated with them.

I made a quilt for my four year old DN last year, his lucky element is Earth so I made sure to put some sandy-beige Northcott Stongehenge fabric in...

Squares and earthy colors represent earth, waves and irregular lines and blues and black stand for water, triangles and "fiery" colors for fire; circles and silver, gold, white and grey are metal, long shapes and greens and browns are wood.

You could make a quilt, for instance, combining the lucky elements&colors of the two people who are going to be sleeping under it.

I think a log cabin would tend to be earth (square blocks) and wood (blocks made of long strips)... with the traditional red centre, you'd have a fire in the cabin centre, safely contained in its square of stone (earth). Isn't it amazing!

Can you tell I love this? I could go on and on... :oops: :D

I was doing really well. Nothing new purchased, working on UFOs. Then I had 2 UFOs that needing borders. And I legitimately didn't have border fabric to work on either (most of my fabric is very patterned and I needed plainer). Plus I had gift cards to my LQS from Xmas. Okay, no big deal, I will just go get borders. Which I was good and found my borders, and spent $2 for 3 yards of fabric + a box of pins. But it was enough of a fall off the wagon that I was online later and bought 8 yards (for 2 quilts, at least) of Batman and Superman fabric. So I'm back on the wagon... I'll give myself a B so far for January's moratorium, lol

Slipped up between Christmas and New years but bought fab on huge discount and using it now. Used my stash to make 3 table runners and a snowman w/h. Now working on tesselating tail cat quilt and using up more fab. Also trying to make patterns from books/mags I've bought. Why did I buy these books? Hmm....

HELP... :?

I just reorganized my stash. That's not the bit I need help with. It looks nice and I can now see that I have plenty of all colors I like to work with. (Except silver and grey, which happens to be just the color segment I bought from Thousands the other day. So far, so cool.)

Sigh. So I bought a book on hand-dyeing the other day. I didn't really need that for any projects on hand. :hunf:

I hadn't really put books on my no-buy list. Yet. But today I suddenly found myself on amazon, realising I was feverishly browsing dyeing books. Now what's up with that!!!

I have one book already. I've looked through it enough to know it's a great book to start me off, probably will last me for ages. I have fabrics in my stash I can use when the time comes. I'll only need a few dyes and stuff to start playing, when I'm ready - and I still have projects I REALLY want to get out of the way before I start on that. So, definitely not time for more dyeing books.

Phew. :| Haven't bought any more yet. Won't won't won't. I know it's not my creative spirit needing more books. Please help me stay on....

So far this year - no quilting related purchases. BUT - just took my sewing machine in for repair. Grrrrrr . . . I have LOTS of other things I can do, but I have a 4 hour chunk of time to sew NOW.

I posted pictures of my most recent projects from my stash in the pictures section.
<http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-94194-1.htm#2364150>

Pat

Pat, Like your two quilts. They have a happy feeling to them.

Anna,
Try Bonnie Hunter's website http://quiltville.com/ for free scrappy quilt patterns as well as books of scrap quits.

same here.....and I can't wait to spend it :) I could never go months without using it...yup, I fell off the wagon :(

I went to Joann's last night - and got binding for two quilts, thread to match that particular binding, sticky paper for my embroidery machine, AND THATS IT!!!


SUPER WIN!!!


WAHOOO!!

I have slipped yet again. It may seem I am hopeless, but I have resisted buying supplies not needed right now three times. Just deleted the shopping cart. Thanks for that suggestion. It helps. But Lois N posted a picture of a beautiful stained glass wall hanging of dragonflies. I have resisted that pattern before so now I'm afraid it will disappear. So I bought it. But I haven't bought any fabric for it, yet. Then my daughter asked what I wanted for Valentine's Day. So she's giving me the pattern. Is that a slip or just plain luck? Thank you for helping continue to realize how often I buy for my quilting. Awareness is the first step. But when does the ability to stop buying all the time kick in? I'm back on the wagon.

Ability to stop buying all the time?!?!.... oh that would be nice. I've been doing the "buy only as needed" thing since September or so, and I haven't yet come to that point.

Ok, I'm still on. I scratched my "go dye fabric!!!" itch by buying a packet of commercial dye for the washing machine and overdyeing two sets of pillowcases I'd accidentally washed together with a scarf that bled ugly grey streaks onto them. Lovely pure linen pillowcases, and I'm now so pleased I kept them, they turned out so well.

Finished my crossed canoes lap quilt I started last summer. I bought half of the fabrics for the blocks (plus half from stash). Made the blocks then put them aside. Started my fabric moratorium, then continued with the quilt just before Christmas. Borders and binding are from stash, back is flannel I purchased for it. http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-94983-1.htm

Spoke to my mum and dad and they love the quilt tops I've been making for them, so I'll be buying a matching border fabric for the two of them, probably sometime next week. I have enough flannel for the backs (I think).

Currently finishing another door curtain that's been waiting on my shelf for, erm, months. Good thing this fabric moratorium, it's really encouraging me to finish stuff I want off my chest!

It's now February - where did January go????

For your updates - please post to the February thread: http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-95818-1.htm

Thanks

I followed your suggestion when an online store put everything 35% off. I shopped and had a ball. I wavered, but then I left without buying anything. That was very empowering. That was a wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing.

I must confess. Two weeks ago, there was a sale at the LQS. I needed to buy backing for a once and done quilt, 2 3/4 yards, for I needed a solid or tone on tone. And then I bought 3 one yard pieces for that quilt, but I did have 2 one yard pieces at home. So I have all the fabric to make that quilt.

But then, I saw fabric which is usually half price, on sale for $2 a yard. I couldn't resist. I ended up buying 13 yards of material. Not good!

Then last week, upon my husband's suggestion to go to a quilt store, I bought 2 fat quarters but used one of them that night.

So I guess that I am out of Fabric Moratorium group. But I will promise that if I am still in, I won't buy anymore fabric until April29 when I go to the quilt show in Somers, NY. What must I do to regain your confidence in me?

So I guess that I must be the one that bought the most fabric on one buying spree. Has anyone bought more than 13 yards, at one time, during the Fabric Moratorium?

Failed miserably. I cleaned out my sewing room and found a lot of room that had to be filled. Then our LQS had a wonderful sale....... you know all the excuses!

The only progress I have made is my UFOs. I have been slowly finishing them.

I still have confidence in you, we all fall of the wagon at one time or another.
Yes, I did at the very beginning of the Moratorium. It was to finished a double sided civil war quilt. I bought 18 yds. I ordered two pices and one did not match so I had to order a third. Then a couple of weeks ago I bought a 6yd and a 2yd to start a quilt for my DD friend's wedding. I think I am still in as the fabric I bought was not a random buy but to finished quilts. That's the promise I made to myself some time ago.

I didn't join in because I had so little fabric and so many grandchildren and great-grandchildren and I promised I would make quilts for them. Maybe I can join late after these quilts are done and I have some scraps to use to make small projects. We'll see. :)

Dear Olivia's Granny,
So glad that you still have confidence in me. I AM working out of my stash but it is so easy to fall off the wagon.
I don't think that buying to finish a quilt counts.
Blue Bell

I think you are right, we can buy fabric we need to finish a current project. If we didn't buy too much fabric and too many books, we wouldn't need a moratorium. I think I have had constant failures. But if you keep trying, you will do better. It's not about being perfect, but about breaking bad habits, at least for me.

BlueBell, I fall off other wagons. LOL Like food!