Question - a true quilter?
 

I have finally gotten my sewing area organized, well as organized as it is going to get. Have decided to start gathering items needed for several classes I have signed up for this year so I can order all the new rulers, templates, or what not's I will need for the classes. Do not need to order anything! Have doubles of almost all, some triple. Most are still in there original packaging. Even have all fabric needed in my stash! Does this mean I am a true quilter, or does it just mean I have bought way to much in the past?? LOL

Hee hee, did you answer your own question? :D

Jan in VA

Sounds like a true quilter to me! :)

Dina

Aren't they one and the same??!! lol

Have you seen anyone about the possibility you may be an OCQ (Obsessive-Compulsive Quilter)? It sounds like a very serious problem and the only thing I could think to recommend is ... more quilting!!! (or more cow bell, one of the two) ;)

OCQ -- I finally have a name for my condition!

Love the name of my OCQ.

I suppose we all have a measure of this condition-I know I do. But, I am dismayed when I purchase something, ruler or gadget, that is a one use thing and costs quite a bit. We can be drawn in so easily-especially at a quilt show demonstration. I want to be well equipped but not overly so. My weakness seems to be books and I have more than I need.

I never feel guilty or bad about notion purchases I've made for quilting. Really nothing cost that much no matter if it is a one time use or not. Notions wear out and break so it's money saving to have a spare bought at yesterday prices.

You sound like a true Quilter to me , I know I planned my new kitchen around a very large breakfast bar
that had to be able to take a K/S quilt so when I basted it, I don't have to get down on my knees any more
the kitchen designer thought I had lost it , he couldn't understand someone planning a kitchen around sewing .
Silly man ........

I don't buy rulers and some other things that I really don't need, but I have a couple of photo boxes filled with extra notions and rotary blades and I did have second rotary cutters until I gave them to DD. I'm always needing more notions and I prefer leather thimbles and they tend to stretch out after a big project, so I buy a few when notions are on sale and then I can get a fresh one for the next big project.

It's not silly or foolish or wasteful to have a lot of notions on hand. It's good planning.

Cathyre, I like your designing style. I wish Hubby would listen to me. I want to move our bedroom to what I'm using for a sewing room and move the sewing room to our bedroom. We only need enough room for our bed, nightstands and maybe a dresser in a bedroom, so we should move. I need a lot of room for a sewing room and our bedroom is so much bigger. He refuses. I don't get it. It's really silly.

see..now if that designer was a woman, she would have just nodded and smiled!

Another name for OCQ could be Serial Quilter. I have a tee-shirt that says that. It is perfect for me. Let me see if I can find a picture. It is worth a chuckle. :)

Dina

Hmm, maybe there will be a new tv series about this condition next year.....

Love that t-shirt...must find one or create one!

I got mine from Cafepress.com several years ago. Looks like it is still there....:)

Dina



http://www.cafepress.com/mf/9819800/...uctId=91663783

I FINALLY talked my DH into doing this, but first he's putting ceramic tile in both bedrooms, it's taking F-O-R-E-V-E-R. I'll be able to call it a Studio now even tho it's only a few more feet of space, lol

I am much more careful with what I purchase. I dislike rulers that can only make one type of quilt with it. I find I am liking just simply sewing with strips now a days.

I think that you are at the right site, OCQ is a common condition around here. I am pretty sure I have it!!!

I love rhetorical questions. So easy to answer.

Maybe Dr Drew will have a session on quilting addicts. You'd have the addicts hiding stashes of fabric and notions all over the place and if the fabric is confiscated, they'll steal his tie, pry off a bedspring to use as a needle, rig the coffee maker as a makeshift sewing machine and try to quilt with that.

(I think my brain fell down the rabbit hole this morning....must have coffeeeeee)

Sounds like you're on your way

I did the same! Wouldn't let them add anything to my island so I would have a large flat surface. And your right about designer!

I was going through my sewing things the other day and was shocked to see how many things that I have never used.I thought it was a must have at the time it was bought. My sewing room is in such need of a redo. A true quilter you are. Happy quilting.

If too many "what not's" are still in the original packaging, you didn't need them, right? That might mean you are very much an old-fashioned make-do quilter, using minimal tools to create instead of needing all the gadgets!

I'd say you are absolutely a true quilter. Welcome to the club of the most friendly, helpful and wonderful people there are. There is no finer group of people anywhere.

You sound like a true quilter to me!! I am afraid of doing just what you're talking about. I've got to inventory my rulers so I can nip it in the bud!! Thank you!! :)