Have you found your favorite or most beautiful fabric yet? How mush did you buy or was it just a FQ? I mean you just have to have it no matter what? Me I have to say no that is why I still look and buy. I have not got to the fabric that I absolutely love.

i have not exactly found the "one" fabric..but i did have one i "just couldn't cut"!

My problem is that I love too many fabrics. I usually purchase anywhere from 1 - 8yards. Not easy being stashy!! :lol: :lol:

Yes, many times.

Oh yes!!! Many times!!! A fat quarter is just not enough. I buy a minimum of three yards but especialy batiks.........they get prettier the more that is unwrapped from the bolt so I end up with 4 to 6 yards, sometmes more. I have lots of pieces that are "my favorite."

I'm not sure I could pick a "favorite" -- I love it all! :lol:

yes I have, I love batiks and would buy nothing but batiks if I could. I do not like the ones with designs, butterflies, leaves etc, I like the mottled no thats not true, I love the mottled. As for what I buy, usually all I can afford. But I never find enough of the ones I like, thank goodness so no danger there. lol

BATIKS, BATIKS BATIKS

Rita

I am with you foxxigrani, those are my favorites too...
I have some that I don't know if I will ever be able to cut LOL but I find more than I CAN afford to buy :roll:

I have some that I can't cut, but an absolute favorite? Not yet. If I found it I would by the whole bolt!

Sewcrafty, I think I am going to adopt that as my motto "not easy being stashy". So cute and so true!

I have found several "must haves" over the years. Just this week I received a new "must have" in the mail. I ordered 3 yds, but usually just get 2 yds. My problem then is that I am relunctant to use them...don't want to waste them on just anything. LOL

Oh, Janet, I know that feeling well. "Too beautiful to use so I'll save that for something special." I used to laugh when an older quilter friend said she wanted to be buried with some of her stash and now...it seems like a better idea all the time! LOL Will any pattern be good enough?

The only thing I've learned about this problem so far is that fantastically beautiful material (and beauty is in the eye of the beholder) with a fascinating print needs to "go big" i.e., can't be cut up into little squares. Other fabrics with smaller patterns can't be cut either since I'll need them to surround the beautiful big blocks when I've found the perfect pattern.

See how it works? One way or another I think I can protect some portion of my stash "as is" for at least another 50 years.

It's really nice to be a grown up and a maker of the rules, isn't it!

Jois

I have a bunch of pieces that as I bought them I knew it was just to have them not use them. I still pull them out just to admire them.

Oh yes, several. Some I have used, some I am saving. After all , can't we be collectors too? I tell people when they ask about my stash that stamp collectors do not use the stamps and coin collectors do not spend their coins, I do not have to use my fabric, I can just fondle and pet it if I want to, Right? Ruth

Well I suppose that when I find one that fits into a quilt top perfecly I love it!! LOL! But, I love collecting differnet styles and colorways of fabric. It is a great artistic outlet.

I think you and I were cut from the same cloth. tee hee I don't normally like the batiks with the gold on them, but I ended up wtih about 4 yards of one once and I just use the back side... no one will ever know. tee hee

Every now and then I see a book like Pamela Mostek. Just Can't Cut It and I inspect the front and back on Amazon or some other book seller but I still haven't bought one. It is supposed to have patterns that keep swaths and swaths of the fabrics you love. They'd be "on show" so to speak and maybe you wouldn't feel so bad about using them.

I haven't bought the book so far.

Jois

I have several fabrics that I absolutely love and just had to have, regardless of the price. Also, I have seen a line of fabric in an older magazine that I fell in love with and have looked everywhere for it and can't find it, but if I could, I'd have to buy it. So far, most of my "dream" fabrics I haven't used in a quilt, but I do have them bundled with other fabrics in preparation for making a quilt. I guess I'm waiting for the dream pattern to use with them!!

I have found my 'favorite' fabric many times. I liked one fabric so much I bought 4 yds. twice because I forgot that I had bought it the first time.

My favorite thing for decorating is english ivy and I searched for what seemed like forever before I found fabric like that. About a month ago (or so) I finally found some but have yet to find the pattern to use it with. I'm thinking that I need to go back and get either the rest of the bolt or whatever I can...I love the ivy fabrics. :D

:lol: :lol: :lol: Proof positive---you really loved it :!:

Have you ever walked thru the fabric area and suddenly stopped because you spied a fabric that shouted at you? Didn't know where you'd use it or what patterns to try but you just HAD to have it. Oh, what fun.

Yes, me too. I have found that fabric I just have to have, but I do the fat quarter thing too. I am just a fabric addict. :D

For me it was a set of six "silk" fat quarters. The colors are gem tones, and they feel fantastic. I bought them with the intent to make a crazy quilt wall hanging. But two years later I still don't have the heart to cut them up. On bad/sad days I take them out of their protective tissue paper and admire them and dream of a beautiful wall hanging, someday maybe when I retire I will work with them, but now I just admire my beautiful gems.

My favorite fabric is NOT a main or focal fabric but a black batik. The batik is black with subtle tones of either red or dark blue.
These will blend with any color.

I buy between 1 and 2 yrds.

I also found a fabric that I just could not cut. It's a fall scene
with a farm and a farmhouse and barns and pumpkins and it is
just beautiful. I didn't cut it. I put batting in it and a backing
(actually, of the same fabric), and sewed a diagonal grid on it
in two directions, put a bias tape on it, and I now have a lovely
fall decorating quilt. I could not cut the fabric. It would have
broken my heart to do that.

Several times I have found a "favorite" and it has inspired a specific pattern or search for a pattern for a specific person.
I do have one that is for me that I just don't want to cut. I am going to use it as a back to avoid most of the pain...now if I could just find a pattern for the front...hummm

I just bought some Moda fabrics called Me & My Sister- they are so cute!! I'm going to make pillows for me and MY sister :D I love the whimsical fabrics Moda has been putting out.
So much fun to work with. My pillows from last year went back with my son who thought they were awesome. I never dreamed he'd like the funky fabrics but he loved them. My other boys did too. One said "Gee Mom you could probably get $100 for each one. That's what I love about boy kids. They say the cutest things :) Anyway my son forced me to buy new fabric to make new ones to replace them :D

A couple of years ago we went to Hawaii for our 50th wedding anniversary. I purchased three fabrics to use in a quilt. It is still sitting in my cabinet because I just don't know what kind of pattern to choose to show off the prints. And yes, I still love it! I have trouble getting my pictures out of the Corel program and onto this site or I'd attach a photo now.

I found one and bought five yards and may go get more. In Texas we pride ourselves in our beautiful wildflowers. I went in my favorite quilting store last week and found a beautiful fabric of bluebonnets, red Indian Paint brushes, yellow wild flower, pink all blended on a navy blue background. My friends and I bought so much Ms. Godfrey is ordering more. They had two quilts made up in it...I wish you could see it. I just came home and hung the material on my quilt rack so I could see it. What did I Pay? Welllllll I won't be shopping for awhile.

Oh, we must see PICTURES of this -- it sounds gorgeous! :D

I have several old Japanese 14" wide that I'd never cut. I alternate hanging one on my bedroom wall.
Currently I have hanging a fabric that reminds me of a favorite Anni Albers painting from 1926, I'll never cut it either.

Years ago I made a quilt for my son called Brick Walls (an old MaryEllen Hopkins design) with Ivy. I had beautiful English ivy fabric, which I appliqued on the top. At the time we lived in NYC in a brick house covered with English ivy.

I have a soft spot for mostly dog fabrics. Any animal fabric will call my name. Depending on how loud it calls me is how much I buy. Usually atleast a yard. I have a large trunk and 3 large totes full of just dog fabric. Its all my favorite though. :-D :-D :-D

I bought a yard in a beautiful floral that will not work in any project, current or UFO. It hangs on the wall in my sewing are so I can pet and admire it.

I'm looking for green with four leaf clovers. Can't find it in the stores here. If you see some on line let me know. I'm going to make memory quilts from my dear husbands shirts. He was full blood Irish so I'm looking for the backing.

I have also purchased the same fabric (3 times) because I love it so much, put it up in a special place so it won't get wrinkled or damaged, and forget I have it. I found lots when I worked on my new fabric room last summer that I had totally forgotten that I had, but love. I also am guilty of getting stuff out, looking at it, playing with it, and putting it back for a special pattern.

I do have a very favorite and was able to put it in a quilt without too much agony while cutting the pieces but have purchased more of the exact fabric when I found it just to have the pleasure of seeing that great fabric in my stash. I see myself as a fabric collector as well as a quilter.

I don't know if they are my favorites but I just can't walk out of the store without buying several yards! No pattern in mind, just have to have it.