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#1piecemaker 08-29-2011 12:24 PM

Do you pick your pattern for your fabric or your fabric for your pattern? I still don't know which one I do.

medots 08-29-2011 12:27 PM

usually the fabric.

tealfalcon 08-29-2011 12:29 PM

I do both

ckcowl 08-29-2011 12:30 PM

sometimes i see a pattern i love- then i have to find fabrics for it- sometimes i see fabric i love and have to decide on a pattern to use it for- so either way- both ways- just depends...but i am much more apt to buy fabrics i love- then decide what to do with them- i don't really use many commercial patterns

dd 08-29-2011 12:32 PM

I usually want to make that pattern. Usually the fabric is the hard part. Last one was scrappy, easy fabric choices.

Jennoh2 08-29-2011 12:32 PM

I just look at all the scraps and figure out what to do with them, then buy some coordinating material for sashing and/or borders. Trying to cut down on the remnants in my storage bins

Country1 08-29-2011 12:36 PM

both, sometimes the pattern comes to me and I find fab in the stash, other times I see fab and look for a pattern that it is perfect for, No help here sorry, just go with your gut.

luckylindy333 08-29-2011 12:38 PM

Both for me- I have been collecting different colors that I want to be theme, like the bubblegum pink one that I am working on now. I collected oranges for a while- Charismah has that one now to do the LAQ.

janell2009 08-29-2011 12:39 PM

I have done both.... mostly I find fabric 1st and then what pattern I wanna do with the fabric I have. I get more of my fabrics now from rummage sales and clearance sales.. When I have found a pattern I wanted to do, then I purchased a fabric for that pattern I tend to spend more than I wanted to.. hehehe..

Buckeye Rose 08-29-2011 12:41 PM

I pick the pattern first, because not all fabrics will work in all patterns. So pattern first, then fabrics keeping in mind who is getting the quilt, where it will be used, and what colors are in the room to be used in.


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