do any of you have some pieces of favorite fabric you have purchased that you just can't bring yourself to cut for a quilt? I have several I really love but am afraid to take the plunge and make a decision on what to make with them? Seems easier to use lesser liked fabric b/c if you goof up it does not hurt so much.

I do scrapy quilts and I am always sad when I use the last of a favorite fabric.

Yeah, only about a hundred yards....

:lol: and :oops:

Yes, I have many of those... I keep saying I am waiting for the "perfect" pattern for them LOL

I have a bin that is labled moms fabric. It is my fabric that I am going to make a quilt for me. That was a year ago and it is now huge!!! I am like the others and cannot bring myself to cut it!

I keep thinking once it's gone, I won't have it anymore. So I hoard it. That's nuts.

Yes, and when I found the perfect pattern it was such a joy to use the fabric.

Absolutely.........! :D

Oh yes, i have a few pieces i can't bear to cut into, i get them out and pet them once in a while :)

I have sunflower fabric I have been saving and thanks to some wonderful quilters I finally have enough of it so after Christmas it will become a quilt.

I do have a stash of my favorite fabrics too! Sadly it just stands there while all the least favorite ones are already in a quilt and being loved. :cry:

Most of my large floral fabric.

I am so glad I am not the only one who gets fabric out an pets it.

I have several and you know what--I think I am going to start using them. I might not last long enough for the "right pattern" to come along. :)

I have a yard of a blue 1930's reproduction fabric that I absolutely love. I haven't cut it. It is several years old. I just take it out and run my hand over it..and admire it. One day I was browsing on line quilt shops and ran across a sight with tons of that fabric. I bought 6 more yards. LOL..one of these days I will make a quilt for me..and it will be the dominate fabric.
Birds of a feather flock together..
Peace and blessings,

Yes, many yards.

I have tubs of the original vintage 1930 feedsacks fabrics.. I seem to accumulate them and I can't find myself to use them.. I pull them, feel them, lay them out, out think of a pattern and just when Im ready to cut into the feedsacks I put them away and grab the 1930 reproductions instead..I can replace the newly acquired repros but my feedsacks, nah, I just can do it..

I've only made a few quilts, but some of the ones I've really really liked were used as backing.

Me too. :lol:

Oh yes, I am so glad this came up. It's not nice in my family to admit that I 'pet' my fabric. People roll their eyes and laugh. However, I have pieces that I won't cut because the current project will not use up the whole piece and then will I be sorry that I didn't save it for a project that uses the whole thing? And also, what if I use it for this and I will be sorry I didn't save it for that.

For me, it's like eating your cake and having it, too. Such a dilemma when it comes to using your very faves.

You are not alone!!!! We understand completely..

me too
I actually hang fabric I love as though it was a painting.
Have a gorgeous Japanese orange geometric up right now - which I don't believe I'll ever cut.

I just made a Take 5 with some fabric that I bought at a quilt show maybe 5 years ago or longer. It was very hard but I did it. What was leftover went into the scrap box.
It couldn't sit there forever.

Oh, yes, mostly animal prints!

Oh yeah. I wish I could get passed hoarding it. I keep trying to tell myself that I have to use it so I can buy more but then I just buy more anyway. :mrgreen:

I know the feeling I kept the first fat quarter I ever won for years finally used a lttle of it. I am in the process of cleaning and using my stash. Guess what last Sat.I added more and I won't say how much more! :oops:

Isn't this part of being a quilter???lol I go to the store see material I like by some and pretend I don't have any at home to so on. Go home and opps there is my stash !!

I have some pieces that I am saving and gathering more to make a quilt from, but those I plan to use. I have been sad about some frog fabric, Two pieces of coordinating frogs. I have carried it with me on several moves, while I got rid of a lot of fabric. I made a quilt with them and now when I come across scraps I feel a little sad about it being mostly gone.

Yes with me it's all my fat Quarters that I just haven't brought myself to cut up yet, maybe some day :D

Yes , I have named mine the Fabric Museum. It has all of the just too beutiful to cut fabrics. On occasion, maybe , a piece will come out and make it to the cut table. Then there is hesitation, a moment of silence ... and a reverent thought that it is sacrificing itself for a worthy quilt.
Yes I have fabrics that may never be quilt worthy! I do let other quilters visit the "museum" and there is always a gasp and many oh.. how beutiful remarks. There have been offers of trade and money offered for me to let some of the pieces go to "other" museums and promises that they will be well cared for....but I can not cut or part with them.
I have come to openly admit at pruchase time that "this is a Museum piece". I guess admitting there is a problem is the first step??!!!!

I have a few pieces left of some old Robert Hoffman woodblock prints from years ago. I'll probably use these if I can find a pattern that I like that will highlight them. I don't like the newer patterns, like disappearing nine patch, etc., so I may use them as accents. Every time I look at them, I think they're so beautiful I want to frame them.!

Me three! LOLOL .. we should share pictures of our favorite fabrics ... maybe we could help each other accumulate more. My absolute-to-die-for favorite is a 1994 Hoffman Challenge called Tiffany Windows here:

http://www.hoffmanchallenge.com/past...994fabric.html

I only have a yard of that GORGEOUS stuff. It is lovingly placed away from the light and dust/dirt. I visit it on occasion, just to pet it and reassure it that it is still my #1.

Second place is the 2004 Hoffman Challenge called Multi-Gold (?) here:

http://www.hoffmanchallenge.com/challenge2004.html

It shares the same clean dark spot with #1, so at least they can talk to each other. :-)

Oh - that Hoffman Challenge Multi-Gold is absolutely exquisite. It should be framed and hung because it is sooooooooooo gorgeous

OMGosh It is beautiful and I would have had to have all the co-ordinating fabrics also. wonder if they are still available somewhere?

I'm so new at quilting! I only buy fabric when I have a quilt pattern in mind. Am sure that will change one day but right now it works for me. Besides, we live full time in an RV and there's only so much room. Maybe that's really a GOOD thing.

Oh yes I have every Pancy fabric made I think , and
I cant cut a single piece , maybe one day the perfect
pattern will come along , until then I stroke,refold , admire, and gently put it away . My quilting friends reckon they are going to line my "coffin " with it one day . At least I will still have it with me ......

I have a jelly roll that I fell in love with the material. I'm scared to death to use it because I can't decide how to use it or if I should put some other fabric with it when making my quilt. I'm also a relatively a quilting newbie and what if I really mess it up.

My favorite flower is the pansy. I bought some beautiful pansy fabric. I started the quilt and decided that I would love to make a king size quilt for my bed. I went back to get the material and they didn't have any more and I haven't been able to find it any where else. I'm so upset.

This is what I've decided to do too.

I have trouble using material left over from a project. I think that I will make curtains or pillow cases. But I never do. What's up with that? I guess it is just as bad as saving a piece of favorite material.