I have been collecting fabric for years and I have found it has changed. I used to love calicos & country types of fabric. Now I find myself liking solids, batiks, etc.
I still plan to keep some of the older stuff but get rid of alot. How about you?

same here.I gave away a lot of fabric to the senior citizen center a fw months ago, because I know I will not use it.
I was like you loved country and calicos,now it is brights and the new prints,love Amy butler and everything bold.

My taste change from day to day!LOL But one thing stays the same, I love fabric old or new . :lol: :lol: :lol:

Great answer!!

Yes, just like everything else my tastes have changed over the years and just not for fabric. I used to love the country colors and furnishings. Now I'm in love with brights and batiks and minimal furnishings. I seem to like my details in my fabrics and simplicity in my house furnishings which makes for interesting "discussions" with hubby. :) He loves wall to wall furniture.

That is the way my taste is running...minimal ....I would love to bulldoze the living room...Too much heavy dark furniture, in fact too much crap period...

My taste changes all the time. Just whatever I buy.

Most definitely. Like the others, when I first started I loved calico's and country colors. Now batiks take center stage in my stash and I am in an Asian phase now. I still have some of my old calicos but I got rid of a lot. I kept a few that I thought would look good in scrappy quilts or that I had enough coordinating fabric to go with for a project.

My color tastes haven't changed much in the last 15 years, but the way those colors are used certainly has. I will say, however, that I have loved retro prints for a very long time (50's and 60's retro, specifically) and I don't anticipate that changing anytime soon.

Mine have changed. I used to collect a lot of florals and now I can't resist batiks. Fortunately I recently bought a book with some outstanding scrappy quilts that my "old" stash will be perfect for!

I have only been collecting fabric for a couple years now. I was buying 1930's like crazy and now I want retro and farm fabrics. LOL! I will probably keep most everything because like fashion, it will come back in "style" and I will want it again. LOL!!!

I did the exact same thing. When I first started quilting, I thought everyone made quilts with calico. Boy did I have a lot to learn. My friend ended up wiith all the calico. When I called her to come get it I told her she had to take everything including the tote it was in. She thought she went to heaven.. :)

You just described me also. The only fabrics I have that I never get tired of are Jinny Beyer. I have some from the 90's
that I still use. But I've completely changed over the years. It's so much fun!! :)

My taste seems to change with the seasons. LOL I have gone through many phases. Purples are always a favorite but looking at my stash, I also apparently like pinks and greens. My latest fad has certainly been paisleys. Wow, I can't get enough.

I too find myself liking batiks and brights. So I save the "old" fabrics or ones I am not into and make charity quilts. There is always a need, and all kinds of fabrics will work! :)

[quote=feline fanatic]Most definitely. Like the others, when I first started I loved calico's and country colors. Now batiks take center stage in my stash and I am in an Asian phase now.
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Me too. In fact, I'm getting tired of my clothing styles, and found a book with some simple patterns indirectly from the 1960/70s designer Charles Blackburn, with no darts or gathers. Easy styles that fall from the shoulders like the 1930s styles did. Since my own figure has changed over the years, these might be just the thing for me.

And the inevitable left over scraps will be lovely in doll quilts and crazy quilts and wall hangings.

Years? LOL
more like daily/weekly...
i often refer to the "what was i thinking?" phrase......

Have they ever? I find myself buying 30's prints and feedsack prints like crazy. And only 12 yrs ago I was cleaning those actual fabrics from my parents house (they died 4 mos apart) and trying to find someone to take it.

My thoughts exactly.

It sure has. I have a ufo started years ago and just have to force myself to work on it. But I plan to finish the thing this summer.

I have found that when I get rid of something I want it back years later. My theory is to keep it all, you never know. I am going thru a period now that I like to mix it all up, (Kaffe, Civil War etc.) so I'm using some older stuff up.

Yes, but-I overdye it or paint it with Seta paint.

I think that as long as they continue to create more designs and textures we will continue to change what we like to work with the best.

I think my taste changes with the ideas I get from this board, magazines, etc. So yes it has changed because they are always changing to get us to buy more fabric. LOL

oh heck yes. At one time, I thought Batiks were - well, awful. Now I have more batiks than any other fabric!!!

The older stash makes great Turning Twenty quilts.....!

I love batiks and brights but challenged myself to go for the softer "old fashion" fabrics and now love them too. My batiks are sitting there waiting for me to figure out the best project to use them in, of course I have enough to make several projects. I do tend to buy what I like and sometimes don't even have a project in mind but the price is so good, have to have it, be it batik, brights or soft.

I don't think my fabric tastes have changes, but I do think the way I use the fabric has changed. I still incorporate the old fabric.

The old prints tend to be small and can be used as blenders, linings for bags, etc. Large pieces can be backings.

what is seta paint? thanks

I had NO taste when I 1st started.Like to think that has changed, but it's colors that have changed the most for me.Love reds/gold/yellows,shades of cream,greens & whatever looks good with them.

Not as much as I would have thought....I did a weeding of fabric last year and it was really HARD to say...nah, don't see myself using THIS! :mrgreen:

Yes, it has changed and keeps changing. When I first started, I swore off batiks....will never touch them, buy them or be interested in them. Now, while I have a small collection of batiks, I can't stay away from them. I love the way they make purses look and I am almost done with my first batik quilt for my son's wedding.

For me at least, it is the fabrics that have changed and not our tastes. I still have fabrics from way back too, along with these modern colors. Love these new bright colors.
IdahoSandy

I think for most of us, our taste changes as we go along.It depends on the project for me. A pieced or applique, one of my own designs.I think that's the great thing about quilting, you make it yours by color and pattern, and whatever else you decide.

I think as my life has changed, my taste in almost everything has changed as well.

I used to buy a lot of novelty prints, but now I find I'm into pretty florals and novelty prints.

I have gotten into making scrap quilts and find I can use all that older fabric. Looks great in scrap quilts. In fact I haven't made a regular quilt for ages. I am all for scraps. I get the squares and match them up and do alot of chain peicing. Very mindless but very relazing. I have a whole bin of squares ready to chain piece and before you know it you have enough for a quilt. I am still working on Winding Roads quilt blocks.(quiltmaker Sept/Oct 2009) I have complete 2 tops so far and 3 more to go. My kids really like this top and they all want one. I want one to so I guess I just keep making blocks. I use Bonnie Hunters Idea of using scraps and use her patterns alot. Takes care of so much of that older fabric with a few piecs of newer stuff thrown in.

Taste in quilt fabric is like your tastes in everything else. The older fabrics I have, pinks, greens, mauves, etc
now seem to work very well making baby quilts. Also fit in well with my scrappy quilts. But right now I am into batiks and brights. Hope my delight in different fabrics and colors never stops.

i also collected calicos at one time (when i first started) ..i have shelves of them.....what todo????? gonna make bckings for the future quilts