timd to come clean
 

My husband thinks we are nuts, but I say we should just suck it up and admit it already, so I will go first.

Hello, my name is Gina, and I am a fabric fondler.

Hi Gina, name's JoAnn and I'm very much a fabric fondler myself. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Ok, I confess I too am a fabric fondler. I like to go to the drawers I have my fabrics in (divided by color)and just go through and feel them envisioning the projects they might become.

OMG so am I. I love to sit on the floor of my sewing room fondling my fabric and dreaming what they will become lol.

If it were only confined to my own drawers... My name is Annette and I fondle fabric in stores. Last week, I asked a co-worker could I touch her dress (we are close so it wasn't THAT kind of creepy) because I liked the way it moved and wanted to see what kind of material it was.

Hello my name is Toni and I'm a fabric fondler. I have always loved this. I remember as a child to be able to touch velvet would almost make my eyes roll back into my head.The first time I felt Minky I almost fainted. LOL

Oh yes, fondling fabric is my pleasure at present using flan nettle and brushed cotton and keep stroking as I sew.

Hello my name is Dona and I'm a fabric fondler. I love to rub my hand along fabric. I will walk in a fabric store dragging my hand along the fabric. Then I will stop and caress the fabric. It makes me feel happy.

Hello, my name is Debi, and I, too, am a fabric fondler. In fact, at least half of my stash is flannel. It regularly gets a pet when I pass by.

i think i will remain anonymous!

My name is Nancy, and I'm a fabric fondler. I haven't found a 12 step program for it, so will be one for life. LOL
I am making a concentrated effort to do my fondling in the sewing stores, and not have a huge stash at home....yeah, that will happen NOT.

oh,oh me too I am addicted to fondling my stash,my daughters stash and anyone else's who will let me in their house.

Guilty as charged. I work in a LQS and actually caught myself petting a new bolt that was still in its plastic wrap! I have a serious problem.

This made me laugh......I've asked a stranger if I could touch her dress..........I guess she could tell that I wasn't THAT kind of creepy too since she said yes and confided that she was a fabricholic too!

Me???? No way. But, you fabric fondlers should feel this new fabric I bought last week. It feels so good. ;)

Hi, my name is Kaelyn and I am a fabric fondler. Not just fabric for quilting, I also love to fondle clothing. I'm a very tactile person and collect blankets and socks with interesting fuzzy textures.

Y'all are making me laugh out loud!
Of course I'm a fabric fondler!!! No excuses, no shame.
Signed, touchy feely Jackie

My name is Kim...and I also love to fondle (or as we call it "pet") fabric. Some fabric just feels so soft...that is the kind I like to work with.

OM, is that what it is called? I guess i am coming out of the closet too. I love flannel and I go into withdraws if I can't go to Joann's at least once a week. The coupons draw me in. I am glad I am not alone. Thank you ladies.

I have a friend, who will remain anonymous for obvious reasons, who when she sees a fabric she just loves, says "oh I just wanted to lick it" She cracks me up!!

I too, am a fabric fondler....and I confess that I go further than fondling...I have been known to actually take it home with me and love on it!!!! Thank goodness I don't work at a fabric store or they might fire me for admitting things like this to my group...:)!

It's the right thing to do! If your fabric knows you love it, perhaps it will be more cooperative when you start cutting it and running a sharp needle over it.

Guilty as charged. That is why I do not buy on line. I cannot feel it. Now do I have a problem or what.

Oh,Lord! Fondling sounds kinda KINKY...I pet fabric. Sometimes I can almost hear it purr!! We all do have a problem!

Hi my name says it all.

I'm a petter, too! And I don't limit my petting to fabric on the bolt. I walk through clothing, bedding, towels, you name it, with my hands out and fingers splayed just petting. And I haven't been arrested yet.

I'm into feasting my eyes, draping fabric all over the house to look at. Sometimes I actually cut it up and make quilt tops! Then I drape the quilt tops all over the house. I hate to have company over because I'd have to put it all away!

Recently started giving my scraps away because of their explosive properties and the fact that I don't use them. I'd walk out to the living room to find that they had somehow escaped their storage and seductively strewn themselves all over the place. Parting was such sweet sorrow...but it was more humane than giving them a life sentence in a locked box or a drawer. Two weeks after they went to their new homes, I woke to find a room full of 'scraplings' had hatched...

Cathyvv you crack me up " I woke to find a room full of 'scraplings' had hatched..." That happens at my house too LOL only its not just scraplings (I luv that) I just finished sewing my 9 patches for my Irish chain quilt, It seems they had multiplied while the light was off and I ended up with 323, 6 1/2in 9 patches :o Maybe I'm suppose to make two quilts? I might have to leave the light on from now on.

Hi, My name is Sheila and I am a fabric fondler... Who is going through serious withdrawals at the moment.... I am getting cranky and depressed. My fabric is getting packed up and there is no fondling or sewing going on at the moment. My favorite fabric to fondle is a hand dyed sueded fabric I bought from a place on Etsy. But I will fondle any kind of soft looking fabric anywhere. :)

Hello, Gina. My name is Hilda and I am a fabric freak.

Oh yeah! I am a fabric fondler, toucher, smeller, looker, all of it, and darn proud of it, so there. Now you know!

I confess too LMAO

hello my name is Linda and i am a fabric fondler. I was a rural mail carrier for 30 yrs and part of that time I had a women on my route that had an on line sewing business. so about once a week when I would get to her mail box there would be a large bag hanging on the box with her scraps in it. I could hardly wait to get home dump them all out on the couch and just look and fondle.

My name is Ellen and I am a fabricaholic! I have always said, fabric is sensual. It is to be fondled!

When in a fabric store I feel the fabric first. It has to pass the touch test before I even look for color or pattern.

Hello, Hello,<~~~~~~ I believe you are My Sister

Hi Gina, My name is Linda and I'm a fabric fondler and recently my daughter confessed she inherited it from me!! A real surprise since she seems to have an allergy to any kind of sewing or sewing machines!! Maybe eventually she will overcome her allergies!! LOL

This thread is the best! TonyC and the VELVET story is the winner - if we need a winner.
I came back last evening from a quilting retreat in Strasburg, PA. We (some of us) went in to the Bird-IN-Hand shop (in Bird-in-Hand) and the first thing I did when we got back to the B&B was "Here feel this fabric". There were five from NEW YORK and four from my guild. We had never met before and laughed the whole weekend thru. Of course we did sew. It was a UFO weekend. I didn't get my UFO completed but I am on a roll now.

Okay, I'm a fabric fondler too but I also have another problem and that is, once I buy fabric, if it is not for a specific project, I cannot let it go. I rarely (but sometimes I do) use from my stash to make anything unless it is to use a small part so I still have some of it left. I NEED HELP!!!!

Hello my name is Linda and I have NO idea what you are talking abou. lol