Well I was doing real good, till my quilting buddies called and said "Road Trip" Thats all it took. We left early this morning, before daylight, stopped and had breakfast, then headed for Indy. We went to Quilts Plus, "side note here" if you spend $150.00 you get this really nice large canvas bag. Well we all 4 left with one. After we left there we went to The Back Door. We had a wonderful time. We are all meeting next Sat. for a day of sewing and friendship. No Regrets.

Well, I blew my fabric diet and my food diet. I've had a cold for over a month now so my eating habits tend to want sweet things, carbs, not veggies or fruit. The fabric diet, well, I "neeeded" some fabric for valentine projects so I bought a little bit of red and some pinks. The printed stuff goes on sale at 50% off tomorrow at JoAnn's, how can I pass that up?

Rhonda

Well I haven't gone anywhere to buy fabric either, but my computer is just too easy to use! Didn't make it more than a week.lol

My DH said "don't you have some gift certificates to use up at some fabric stores"? In other words, he was ready to get out of the house! So I did! I spent no more than my gift cards. Still within boundaries. The material and thread I bought is for the backing to a wedding quilt so that is reasonable I am thinking.

What fun!
 

What fun! Glad there are no regrets, we don't ever want that. This is our enjoyment!

I have been doing really good so far have only needed to pick up 2 yards of pellon and some thread. I have finished 3 UFO's working on #4 a bargello. All those seams to line up! What was I thinking? OH YA I wasn't! LOL My true challenge will come when I go to the Sew Expo in Puyallup on March 1st. hopefully I will be able to stay away from the fabric but I will be getting longarm thread, needles, bobbins, and a new hopping foot. It is a 6 hr trip to my nearest dealer so I try to get enough to last a year, maybe some patterns. I want to have the bargello top finished by then at least, would like it better if I could have the quilting done by then too. Time will tell.

I decided ages ago no more stash-building, only buy planned purchases of fabric, use stash fabrics as much as possible. THEN I discovered a shop I posted about last week, that sells offcuts of quilting fabric by weight at a fraction of their usual price. Luckily it's in another city, but unfortunately I've needed to go there twice recently. Diet became binge! I told myself that given my limited budget and the terrible cost of fabric, it was only sensible to stock up while I could. Yeah, right!

I, too, have a diet of binging! I was being really good until this past Tuesday when I needed some more white fabric. I made a "quick" trip to Hancock's (we don't have any local quilt shops left), and an hour later, walked out with a HUGE bag of several fabrics -- all on sale, plus the needed white. Then I bought some pastels from members on the qb, and a box of greens from another qb'er. Oh well, maybe I'll get on my diet some other time!

Glad I'm not the only yoyo dieter!

I just wish it was only about fabrics! I need to lose weight, but don't have the will power. If only "wishing" could make it so..........