No, I always look forward to my next new favorite.

I have several of my favorites and don't want to put a blade to it. I think of something to make with it and then I just look, fold and put it in the save box.

I have a stash of glitzy fabrics and I have a hard time cutting into them, but they sure spice up a quilt so I just bite my lip and chop away. I don't want it to go to Goodwill when i'm gone!

I bought a batique remnant at a nice shop a couple of years ago - I figured it was mis-marked because it was 1 1/2 yds for $6. I love this fabric and have used is sparingly for leaves, backgrounds, etc.

yep, I have piles of the "too good to use" fabrics. I'm trying to get over it. LOL

not long after i started this post, my daughter (26) who wants to learn to quilt - was going thru my stash trying to find fabric she liked to make her first project with. i felt so bad but she would keep picking up fabrics and i would have to tell her that it was too special to cut up. she thought i was crazy and couldn't understand why i bought something i don't plan to use. i figured if she learns to quilt she will also learn why some fabrics just are not meant to be cut! i quess i am teaching her to be a fabric hoarder? lol

I have the opposite problem. I have lots of fabric I bought a long time ago that I'm no longer wild about and I don't want to use it. I only want to use my cute new stuff.

I can't really count the pieces I have that are just "TOO SPECIAL" to cut up. However, this past year I did take a Landscape Collage class and the piece that best met my background needs was a piece of Ricky Timms hand dyed fabric. Not only did I cut it, I cut the area I needed from the center of the yard. It was totally liberating and the collage turned out lovely.

Josi

Good gravy, I'd have to almost say my whole stash is my favorite and I'm having a hard time cutting it. I keep thinking one day I'll just pull some coordinates and start but then something else distracts me-----like reading this board most of the day! :lol:

at my house "normal" is just a setting on the dryer!

Yep! Guilty!

i made my youngest dd a dress for her baptism.. she was 9 mo old by the time the godparents could get here from out of town..

it was made out of pink & white striped seersucker, with an eyelet pinnefore.. it was lovely

i have been hoarding the left over pink & white for years... a little in each baby girl quilt, used it in that dd christmas stocking.. (made all the kids, kids in law, & grandkids stockings in thier favorite color so i wouldn't have to put thier names on them.. lazy, but looks like i'm smart)

i have a bit more than a fat quarter left, and am holding that for if she ever has a baby girl... it will finish out in that quilt...but it is still in the drawer of my main sewing chest that is right next to my machine, so i can take it out & stroke it whenever i want!
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You are right. Sometimes I just buy fabric that I like with no plan to use it for anything. I just love the fabric. If I ever do use it it also has to be for someone very, very special.

i guess i have poor impulse control and limited foresight! i'm get fabric i love and i can't wait to cut into it. even if i make a "mistake" i figure i'll be enjoying the experience and i just won't point my mistakes out to anyone who would be bothered by them.

I bought the FQ pack of "Nature's Choice" by Moda and I have it sitting where I can look at it all the time. It is so pretty. Someday I'll make a quilt for my bed with it. Not sure what pattern yet though.

LOL...stopped at this reply bc it fits me sooooo well!
I have fabric cutting fear...(ugly quilt fear, really).
I want to "gift" so many family members and friends and agonize over cutting those lovelies and then them not being loved and cherished after I managed to get 'er done and cry at the going away party etc.
neurotic....just plain neurotic, Mousie! ;)

I rest my case...signed, floral lover ;-)

are you kidding me? I dig in it, stroke it, wrap it around moi...
um, not that I go crazy with it or anything (lol) :lol:

yes, yes, yes...I might be sorry I didn't wait another week until I saw this "other" pattern, that is even prettier....
Is there a group for this???? :roll:

I'm so there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :XD: :XD: :XD: :XD: :XD:

I have a luscious piece of fabric that I bought probably seven years ago...I was sewing but not quilting yet, so it's not cotton!
It is 60" wide and I got 1 1/2 yards.
It is white-white with lots of orchid (color), a delicious blend of greens (ferns, leaves-greenery), and has these berry/fuschia flowers that I could eat with a spoon they are such a yummy color!
I am salivating as i describe it!!!
I have daydreamed about making pillow shams or a tote or a wall hanging with it, but I always fold it back up and put it in a container that is marked, "THE ONE!"
One day I am going to take it to my lqs and get some of each color in it and make a quilt for me...then maybe I will be able to make pillows with it...but I never see that same shade of scrumptious berry colored fabric....ANYWHERE!
I think I have the only one this beautiful in the world...shhhh!
Until I find some that is as perfect, I guess I will write "MUSEUM" on that box and guard it with my life :twisted:

I love pansy fabrics, and I can't believe I made a bookcover with one, and what's more, I can't believe how much I enjoy using it!
I tend to think of any book that is in it as "Special"! :-D

ahhh! shuddder the thought....my PRECIOUS...being sold like a common street waif...for a quarter???
I WILL have to muster some courage and use it. I can't let it live a wasted life, locked away...somehow, I must find a way...
I have three daughters that like quarters more than quilts!!! :shock:

did that already. It doesn't cure quilters OCD!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

...and there it is!!! The reason I don't cut!
Waiting to become a better piecer! Since we get better all the time, when is it, "someday"?

hmmm...don't have any I don't like anymore, but I do seem to like the new kids on the block, (lol)!
You all know we are artists, right?
We are describing the artists temperament and perspective here.
It's funny, but i was always so careful not to play favorites with my kids. They were all my favorite ;)

sounds gorgeous! I love pink and white too!!!
Made my youngest an Easter dress with pink with white flowers on it and a bib with eyelet lace. She was adorable in her frilly, twirly, lacey pink and white dress with blonde curls and adorable sweet smile. ahh! such memories.... ;-)

when you cant bear to cut make it the central feature of a lap quilt and bind it up with a co-ordinating fabric you love, then use it to snug yourself as you watch TV etc and ENJOY!

I have to give myself permission to cut into some of the prettier fabrics. I did buy to use, so why not?

same here amma waiting for the right pattern ,but it has,nt been made yet lol

Can you imagine the comments when the undertakers association starts comparing notes and there are suddenly a zillion requests for favorite quilt fabric liners for coffins????

I literally laughed out loud!!! Just too funny for words!

Heck, that's the major problem I have. If I'd only "unlove" the fabric, I might get some quilting done.

Judy

This could open up a whole new business!

I sure do...a lot of them. I just cant seem to cut into them. However, who says you have to? Do stamp collectors use their stamps to pay bills?

Don't tell my hubby, but I have lots. I bought some CUTE halloween fabric back in June to make a quilt but its so cute I don't want to cut it up

I had a piece of silver and aqua silk brocade that I carried around various moves over ten years, because I could not cut into it. I would just pet it and try to dream up a way to use it that was 'worthy' of such a gem. When I left Texas, to return to Oregon, A lovely Japanese friend was helping me pack, and she found it. She held it and cried in the middle of my floor. It was very old you see, and it reminded her of 'home'. She is happily wearing it as a dress for special occasions. I never knew I was saving it for that moment. I regret nothing. Sometimes, ya just gotta say "What the heck, here!" ( I would probably still be carrying it around anyway, I'm just too timid to risk ruining that much silk. I'm glad she wasn't)

How sweet of you to save it all those years just to give it to who had been waiting for it all along. :thumbup:

What a lovely thing to have happen. You'll keep smiling every time you think of that piece of fabric and how it ended up in loving hands.

The same here. None of these daughters sew, either!!