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quilter1430 10-06-2010 10:45 PM

Before you go to sleep, are your last thoughts about quilt patterns and the colors you would choose and how you could combine the blocks? Do you love to just have an open quilt pattern book open and imagine the possibilities while you're watching TV or a passenger in the car? Were you terribly sad when HGTV canceled "Simply Quilts?" When you go online, do you check your quilting sites first for any news? Do you wear threads on your clothing (from so much sewing) and tell your friends it's your favorite accessory?

stitchinbee 10-06-2010 10:52 PM

lol... I'll consider myself, then, in the best of company! :D I have also found that I am a Huge South Seas Print collector. I love their fabrics! Oh when I began quilting, I assumed that WalMart fabric was just as suitable as any other, until I discovered our small town's only fabric shop, and oh, how wrong I was! lol The difference in the quality and feel of the fabric is like the difference between cheap sheets and pure luxury sheets. Even the fabric at Hobby Lobby cannot hold a candle to quality 100% cotton quilting fabric. We have this store in Franklin, TN (a suburb of Nashville), and you would not believe the thousands and thousands of bolts of fabrics, it's pure Heaven. :) The name of it is Stitcher's Garden if anyone in Tennessee is interested. :)

stitchinbee 10-06-2010 10:53 PM

Oh, I so go on Quilting book binges, anywhere from ebay to Amazon and all in between. lol...

Gramof6 10-06-2010 10:59 PM

Ohhhhh you are so "in" with the quilting crowd. :D Ain't it great? :D :-D :-D I can spend hours online at various Fabric Shops! And that is the first thing I think of when I decide to go shopping.... I route my trip around Fabric Shops. :D I've taken over 3 rooms and will soon need to find a larger home if I do not stop it though. :D :D :D It is WONDERFUL!!! :wink:

litacats 10-06-2010 11:34 PM


Originally Posted by ArtisticDesign
"Oh, yes, you are a quilter of the collecting sort! "

yep, dats me lol... I have enough notions/fabrics/books to look like I have been quilting for yrs... Yet I've only made 1 and a half quilts.............so far lol

yep me too tho i have made a few quilts i often impulse buy my fabric

CoventryUK 10-07-2010 12:16 AM

YES!!! you are one of the "In Crowd"!!!!!! Welcome to the "Club" !!!!

Ladybugnana 10-07-2010 12:21 AM

Oh do you fit in. I think of quilting all the time and seem to not be able to sleep unless the dream is about fabric or notions or thread or patterns or....You get the drift. Welcome to the crowd!

SueDor 10-07-2010 01:54 AM

I guess you don't have to feel wierd, because we all to everything you have mention.

marthe brault-hunt 10-07-2010 02:11 AM

I have my own addiction. If I see a quilt , I want to know how it is put together. I've got magazines and books, I research, Amish, Baltimore, Southwestern, I want to know the source of inspiration. The colours, the design of the fabric, if it is designer fabric, I want to know about that person. My hands are leaving me, somedays they are shaking so much, so I'm turning into an historian, Behind every quilt there is an history. Just as a painting connaisseur, I'm learning about what is related to quilting

SuziC 10-07-2010 02:50 AM

Welcome to the "addict" club :lol: I buy fabric all the time because i like it and stash it away until a pattern design pops into my head. I have some that have been waiting for a long time that i'm just now cutting up. Don't worry, you are in good company!!!!


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