How funny you all are.....I guess we just have a different way at looking at the world. Right now, I'm going to eat chocolate and go dream about quilts.

LMBO!!! I thought it was OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)!!

OK!!! You made my night. After I picked myself up from the floor from laughing, I thought to myself "Thank God!!! I am just as normal as everybody else." Everyone that posts here speaks my language.

Today I was talking to a medical worker and started staring at her scrubs. They are made from the most yummy colors!! But the nicest part of this was she UNDERSTOOD what I was mumbling in embarrassment about. She has family who quilts..says she hides some of her scrubs from them!

Today I was enjoying some photographs that a friend had taken in Egypt and others in Italy. The combination of the patterns and colors shouted QUILT!! Especially some of the patterns on the ceilings of the cathedrals, museums, etc.

Its an addiction ..... and I don't want a 12-step program!

Oh Thank goodess. I thought it ws just me. I havent even made a quilt yet. I havent even made anything yet! Ive just been making blocks and trying to curb my OCD on the fabrics. I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about designs. I see designs everywhere too. I get really frustrated when my life wont let me sew blocks or learn new things. Is this the beginning of a new illness? or is this illness a contagion and I caught it from someone?

Funny!! When I first started making stack 'n whack quilts my DH really thought they were cool. Everywhere we would go he would see someone's shirt or curtains or carpet and say "stack 'n whack, Ma!" I had to laugh. But you are right...once you are a quilter you look at colors, shapes, or designs in an entirley different way!

Chocolate is a pill !

Soo Fun best way to start the AM you will help my work day go better. Thank you!

Just go for the chocolate! Usually works! grin

Every wek I look at the carpet in th nursing home day room and wonder if I could get down on the floor to trace the design. Would make a lovely quilt block. Lol

You're not alone. Besides quilting I am a photographer. I look at everything as how would that look on fabric or what angle would I take that shot. It's just what we do.

I agree thought - go for the chocolate!! :D

I peresonally think we are blessed to be able to think outside the box. My thinking is not always quilts because I am a retired preschool teacher but I always look at things different than others do whether it is material or paint rollers. I was lokking for a green paint roller at Lowes once and the gentleman finally siad very politely "Mam, you can paint with any color of roller it does not have to be a certain color."lol
Of course I told him it had to be green if you were making a caterpillar out of it.

Just chocolate. No pill needed.

Well can you use a pizza cutter. It does sound interesting. I walk around with a pad of paper and pens that I know will work and draw or write down waht I think would work. I am a very new quilter and this drives my husband crazy.

I thought I was the only one that did that...Drives me crazy sometimes..I got all kind of little pieces of paper with quilt drawings on them...

There is no cure -

You sound very NORMAL to me! :)

Me too.

Chocolate cures all!!!!

sounds like the only cure for this is a trip to the fabric store... ha ha ha :)

AQS no longer stands for American Quilters Society, it's now a recognized medical/mental dissorder--Acute Quiltitis Syndrome. (everything is a 'syndrome' these days) There is no cure because no one wants one. However there are some home remedies to help elleviate the overwhelming urges.
You're welcome to try some of these

1. Always keep a box of chocolates across the room from your sewing machine. Get up, walk across the floor and eat one now and then.

2. Go shopping for fabric.

3. Peruse magazines and books for new, exciting quilt patterns to place on your "to do" list.

4. Join a quilting group so that you feel comfortable with your addiction.

5. Buy a composition book with graph paper and sketch out your designs.

6. Go to the local Man Cave stores such as Menards, Harbor Freight, Lowes, Home Depot and see how many things you can find that you can use in quilting.

Any or all of these things will help when the spouse says, "Have you done anything besides quilt today?" You'll be able to honestly answer with a resounding, "YES, I have."

So glad to hear I am not the only quilter with "Quiltitis!"

I looked at my bathroom tile long enough and finally had to make a quilt. There now I have that one out of my system. My daughter just laughs at me because she sees a stamping design for cards in everything so she can relate. We just look at each other and know what we're thinking. She must have "stampitis".

I think this is the sign of a creative and artistic mind that is always observing the environment and synthesizing what it sees into new forms.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;-)

I thought everybody does this and only the bold actually verbalize what they see.

Amen!!!

Our tile floor at work has a neat pattern, I keep thinking, I know I can make this! :-)

I havn't read the whole thread but I have this thing, if I see a Q at the beginning of the word, either in the paper or on a sign, or a book, it always catches my eye...and have to check if it's something about "Quilting".LOL

[quote=Quiltforme]I feel like that kid in the ghost movie... I SEE QUILT BLOCKS!

I have said this to myself SOOOOOOOO many times!!!
:lol: :lol:

Chocolate is the only thing to take for this...but there is NO cure!!!

Well you guys whatever it is I got it too!!! And I got it bad. So I've started my chocolate regiume. LOL!

LOL Katie:
How funny. And yes, Dolly does still have her coat of many colors. I recently watched her on The Nate Berkus Show. She teamed up with Nate to help a deserving woman who lost her husband. Anyway, they talked about Dollywood and the house she grew up in. She bought that house and restored it back to the way it was when she lived there. She said she spent $2 million to make it look like she didn't spend anything restoring it. She has the coat on display in the house.

If there's a pill I need to know. If not, and chocolate is the only cure I'm well medicated.

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: LOL think that's the first time, have had a solid diagnosis LOL :shock:

Take the chocolate and then make a quilt!

I absolutely have this disorder!!! My DH is amazed that we can go ANYWHERE and I see SOMETHING SOMEWHERE that actually has the work "quilt" in it!! Tractor supply? Certainly, several "good old days" type magazines with quilting articles in it...Lowe's? Certainly, a tile design that actually stated it was derived from a quilt block...grocery store? of course!! lots of Q mags at the grocery store...he says I have "quilt-radar"...which is OK, b/c he has "deer radar" (he's a deer hunter).
No, there is no known cure, chocolate is just a placebo!

Man girl are you like the rest of us you are really hooked...That is not a bad thing, really it is a good one especiall for great ideas. Eat the Chocolate it eaiser but then draw out your plans while they are fresh in your mind then rest a while and go for it again. HA HA HA yep you are hooked. quiltitis, quiltpox or what ever it's you'rs girl....

They really are. I have a floor lamp whose shade I hate. Never really thought about buying a shade I like. Anyway to make a long story short, I was in Hobby Lobby the other day and saw a frame (found out later it was a frame for a topiary). It was metal and had three spokes that swirled around the inside. The idea I got sprung to life. Bought it then went to the place I use for new lampshades (custom shades). We worked with several different ideas. Then one lady said, why not set a cylinder inside the frame. Perfect idea. Now I will have a floor lamp that looks like an ancient lamplighter. Under it will be my oriental Hibiscus plant and will use a low watt grow light. Yes, quiltingis just great. How else could I have envisioned that kind of a light for a floor lamp. Will send picture when shade is finished and I pick it up. I'm so excited, but have to get busy have a table runner that has to go to UPS tomorrow. Bye for now!

Happy to know quilters are of the genius variety. Remember the poem by Joyce Kilmer (Trees). I know that I can find a quilt design every time I see a tree.

I do the same thing I glad I'm not the only one

Well, I must have it too, because I saw a foldy origami airplane pattern and used it to make a quilt block!