I haven't really ever been someone who sews, and only in the past two years have I taken up quilting... But today it happened. As I was looking at a tote bag I own, I was thinking 'I could totally make one of those'. OMW!! (oh my word) I never thought that would be me!! :-)

Join the crowd!!!

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Congratulations!!!! I do that all the time, except most of the time "I don't".

.... if only there were more hours in a day. LOL

Haha!! Me too!

Then just do it!!!!

Yep, your hooked! Enjoy

Me too! lol

I think I will be trying out making the tote... But my list of things I want to make just keeps growing and growing!! I guess I could spend time on worse things. :-)

For some reason, this feeling totally made me feel like 'I have arrived'. Lol. :-)

ha ha me too.

MellieK...you can do it!!
Show us when you've finished it and we'll "rah-rah" you!!

Have you reached the point where you see quilt patterns in almost everything you see while running around town? Or you want to use the clothing that ppl are wearing because the design would be perfect for a quilt?

Welcome to the "Other Side" or maybe I should say "Our Side"!!

Nope, haven't gotten there yet. :-)

Thanks! One thing that is so great about the board is all the positive encouragement! :-)

Or you take a picture of the floor in a public restroom because it would make a great quilt design! lol

Ditto this!

Go for it! We will be waiting to see your finished tote.

I see things all the time that I know I could make. Then I remember a sign I saw at a craft show years ago. "Yeah you can make it, and cheaper. But when!" SO I think about if I really need it and if I will ever get it done before I buy. My bucket list is endless. 3 people could never get it done.

36 would really great. except I would still spend too much time HERE! LOL

Now the question is "do you want to?"

My husband gets a little frustrated when we go to a show/ shopping for craft related stuff and we don't buy anything becuase I can't bring myself to pay their prices knowing I can do it myself for cheaper!

Come on and join us! My grandmother worked for a US Marine base during WWII. She actually sewed parachutes for the troops! She didn't have much money as she was a widow with a young son. She would go to the best dress shops in town, examine the dresses, then go home and make what she wanted. Then she would go out and dance the night away with the officers! Fifty years later, she married one of those officers!

welcome to the club! I made my first tote ever-turned out great even though I was worried I couldn't follow all those instructions (zippers, cord locks, fancy pockets etc)

My mother used to do that!! We'd go to San Francisco, look in Imagnin's windows for the latest fashion and then hit the fabric stores to make a copy!

I made alot a few years ago,my daughter would find a purse and I would make her one for a lot less than their price.I even took an old Ver Bradly clutch purse apart for my niece and made I don't know how many like that.I really don't know if that is leagal or not but I did do it.

Congratulations! You have reached the point of no return, as my husband tells me. :-)

LOL! So there! along with not making the things I know I could!

I'm sure you can do it.

I never took a home ec class and all my quilting is self taught. I took one basic class when I first started and it was more on basic machine work than actual quilt work.

I've seen so many online patterns or have gone to craft shows and said "I wish I could make something like that". Craftybear posted another awesome link and I took one look at the tank top and swore I could make that! I'm buying the fabric this weekend and hoping to give making clothes for the first time a shot! I totally understand what you mean!

I haven't made any bags yet....don't really have the confidence yet.

I love what dorian's momma wrote...I do take pics of bathroom floors and think they could make great quiting motifs!!

Welcome

I can't read any more.

Casual Reading (30's mystery/romance) has always been my refuge.

Takes me forever to finish a chapter, now.

My mind wanders, I grab a pc of paper & start doodling a quilt design layout, or fabric/pattern combinations. or... or... or...

obsession is more than a fragrance. :mrgreen: :shock: 8-)

ROFL. I know what you mean. I am not a sewer per se, but just last week or so have made some little totes and am having a ball. Go for it! You won't look back; however, let me know what you are doing with all those totes. I keep making them, but don't know what to do with them now (laughter). Don't sell items, but there are only so many friends.............

you took the words right out of my mouth, I do it constantly everyday...too funny...we all have it bad...

I was once never much of a person who liked to sew, but, I have made, curtains for the whole house, a bag that holds diapers (hangs from the crib, closet). Curtains for a nursery, curtains for all 3 of my grandbabies, All without a pattern. Me??? Imagine that. I just look at something and if I like it, I try doing it myself. Well I saw a quilt I liked and
came home, looked at all info I need and made my first quilt. I am hooked with a capital H

Gah yes. I also saw a lady come through Walmart yesterday evening and she had this purse with plastic ruffles on the side. Ok, it was really ugly. Cotton would have looked so much better. lol

I have a friend who embroidery's, beautiful work also.Connie in CO

I am the same way. I see things that I could make and probably will be made better. Some of the stuff they sell is junk and you don't realize it til you get it home.

I find myself checking out patterns on tiled floors and wall paper in magazines, I see quilt patterns everywhere.