We are quilters and collectors....
It is cheap therapy in comparison to others.

My sewing machine had to go to the shop a couple of weeks ago. It was okay because it gave me time to sort scraps, pet my fabrics, smell them, admire them, and promise them that someday I would use every last piece of them in a quilt. Mam, I love fabric!!

When I buy new fabric I have a rule. It doesn't come in the house till it is washed. So I drive into the garage pass the washer and throw the new fabric inside washer.
If it is a batik or something I think will run I bring it in the house and fill the sink with hot water and rinse till it stops bleeding. Then wash it with a color catcher.

I thought about working at JoAnns also but knew I would owe more than what I earned.
It would be very dangerous

OMG, Fabric screams at me when I walk by and notice it.."TAKE ME HOME, YOU NEED ME! I'LL BE USED BEFORE YOU KNOW IT! DON'T LOOK AT THE PRICE, JUST LET MY BEAUTY ENCOMPASS YOU. I'LL BE GONE THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE HERE, SO HURRY AND TAKE ME WITH YOU TODAY!" I often stop to touch it with a gentle caress and it purrs...."you want me, I know it!". It just drains my reserves!

I get psycho around fabric, caressing it, walking around with the bolt in my hands so no one else can touch it, eventually falling under it's spell and purchasing it. I'll order two yards and it screams out"MORE, YOU NEED MORE!", and I give in to get that extra yard and feel relief that I made the decision to take it home and give it a place of honor in my stash.

So exhilerating! LOL!

Diane

My best friend is very much a fabricolic. Her 5 y/o GGD is becoming one as well. The time before last that we went fabric shopping my friend kept telling her, you get to pick one thing, the rest is for me! Last time little one went back in the house to rob her piggy bank so she could buy goodies too!

When I get home from shopping I take the fabric out of the bag, open it up & admire it. Then into the washer, dryer then fold & put it on a shelf for a few days where I can see it. Then I put it into it's bin & start all over with a new batch! LOL

The most fun I have is finding someone who is selling fabric in yard sales, Craigslist and in Thrift stores. Of course you have to double check what you get but so far I have been lucky.

I agree after fabric comes I have to touch it all! then rearrange it, putting this bolt next to that one or another.
seeing what makes everything pop!
Then at 2AM I wake up with an idea!

Isn't it amazing that something inanimate can have that control over us? Im the same way!! I fall prey every time.