I have 2 yards of laser printed fabric that I just can't cut up. I have to find something to do with it.

Watson

I have a piece of fabric that was part of a drive by fabric drop off. It was an incredibly ugly pink linen weave fabric. I used fluid acrylic paints to "dye" it and now it is so gorgeous I can't seem to find the right way to use it. It is heavier than quilting fabric, and when I first painted it I had decided to use it in one of my art quilts, but so far I haven't been able to make myself cut it...:rolleyes:

Rob

Frame it and put it up as art on your walls. You get to see it all the time, and love looking at it.

My case is sort of the opposite. I was gifted with some of a deceased quilter's stash. There was a lot of gloomy, unattractive prints (well, to me) from the about the 70's. I bought some bright, cheerful, modern fabrics to counteract the gloom for making scrappy quilt patterns. But-- when I choose fabric from my stash to sew, I'm constantly choosing the new pretty stuff to use, and I pass over the old stuff. It's quite an effort to keep using what I've got, rather than choosing to buy something cuter...

Any fabric that I really don't care for gets put into the "Backing" tote. I've got a wide variety of fabrics from a wide range of years, and very little of it do I really not like.

This thread is what got me motivated to start using some of my border prints - and giving myself permission to use those fabrics that I love so much I'm almost afraid to use them as then I won't have them anymore! But there will always been new fabrics that I'll fall in love with too.

in the 90's I was mad about the Hoffman's black with gold ink.
I also tackled fabric dying.
And I couldn't use either type, too pretty, too much hard work with the hand dyes.

Miniature Magazine was still published then, all paper pieced patterns I think.
Well anyway, I pieced 3" embellished hearts with the Hoffman and the hand dyed as sashing, borders and backing and sent it in to one of their international quilting contests.

I can't remember now what famous quilter judge it was but the note came back with something like 'would have been a winner, but the fabrics don't go together'. Which is what I'd written about on the entry. and why I'd made it ;)