Um, I think I have spent well over my limit this year..oops :roll:

If most of us have exceeded that amount per person, hmmmm. does that mean that the original overall sales figures are on the light side? Either that or someone is not pulling their weight and only buying 2 fat quarters a year. That would not be anyone on this board, however, I am sure.

Well, that's not so bad per year. My DH will be happy to hear that.

Will Walmart finally get the message?

Really enjoyed this little video -------- shows someone has his head screwed on correctly!

Evidently Wal-Mart didn't know we were all out here.... as they took the bolts of fabrics out of thier stores. Maybe someone at Wal-Mart headquaters needs to read the paper.

Isn''t that cool???

That's right! Plus, when I go to Walmart to buy fabric, I always buy non-fabric stuff too, but when I go to a fabric store, then I might buy my other stuff at Target or the grocery store. So, Walmart, if anyone there is listening, cutting fabric departments means cutting non-fabric related purchases too!

Yah, I spent more than that on my first shopping "trip" to Hancocks of Paducah's website. I am saving all my receipts in a file and will add it up at the end of the year (certainly not before). I know my bottom line has to be in the thousands at the end of a year. :roll: :? :oops:

It wouldn't be anywhere near that amount if it weren't for online shopping now! I only have one small quilt shop near me, and a couple of Joann Fabrics within a half hour to 45 minutes. I buy almost all my fabric online....isn't the internet a marvelous thing?!!

And my husband thinks I contribute the majority of it.

I think I spend my share too, but had to print this article. My DH is retired trucker, I have to show him this. He helps me with color selection and gets a little more involved all the time. Keep telling him he'll be quilting by next year. He even went to and enjoyed the Lancaster quilt show with me last week. He was facinated by the longarms.

I started saving ALLL my sewing related receipts. If you sell a quilt or two your fabric, threads etc are tax deductible.

Happy to know quilting is not a dieing art!

I always like to help the economy.

What a great story!!!! I love the guy talking about verigated thread!!!! Priceless!!!!

I've spent that in the last 4 days. and I have 5 more shops to hit this weekend, Got-a love those shop hops!!

I think this is great. My DH is former long hauler and it is frustrating just waiting aroung. Wish I could have gotten him interested.

I just sent this to my DH who is a Director of Transportation for a trucking company and volunteered to show there drivers how to sew!!

I'm going today to help support the economy. Big sale at the LQS.

I believe it based on just what I've spent so far having been at this only about 6 months.

What?? That much???? Can't keep a good think quiet anymore!!! :D

Well I do mean THING.

We are fabriholics and we are many!!

oops I think I already spent someone elses allotment!! But it was at 50% off. grin

And a lot of it is "recycling". Yeah for quilters!

Love the trucker video. I think the concept is just great.
Changes the image of little old lady quilters doesn't it.

Me too......

Dotcomdtcm

Good thing that there are 21 million of us spending the $3.6 billion! lol

We are gaining!!!!! So many quilts, so little time. Have to enlist more quilters! :lol:

This is one of the cutest articles i have read in a long time. My previous husband was a long haul truck driver too. He lived alone for a long time and learned to sew and iron (from his grandparents) better than any one i knew. This was even before he became a truck driver. Back in the old country it was not considered necessarily a woman's hobby or job. It was more a matter of being able to take care of yourself.

... and darn proud of that fact!!

I attend a church of about 200 plus and always finding someone new that quilts. HMMM- maybe I need to organize a quilting group.

Ruby the Quilter

THAT should earn us some respect in the marketplace (or at our bankers)!!

Job security, who knew?

Oh, Foxflower, you think just like me! I ran for the calculator right away. Unfortunately I came up with a different # ($76) so we still haven't settled anything.

Anybody else want to help figure this out?

Amen! When I do the Fabshophop I try not to buy anything but I seldom succeed!

Never mind, I figured out what I did wrong. $171 it is...and I spent waaaay more than that in Lancaster last weekend at the AQS show.

I'm certainly doing my part!!

One more comment and I'll shut up. If these figures came from that quilt magazine survey (you know, the one where they just asked "How much do you spend a year on quilting?") it can't be all that scientific. I know I just took a wild guess so who knows how close I actually came.