what a force we could be if we "organized"! but i suspect we are too busy quilting...

We are our own small country!

And I am spending my fair share

Someone needs to let WalMart know how much they are loosing for not having bolt fabric in their stores anymore...LOL

Cool!

Ohhhh ya I've done my part !! :)

Great Driver article Thanks !! Most men I know definately like quilts, can't imagine down time would be much fun, for some reason don't see LQS putting in the right parking tho.
Hmmmm.... maybe a new market at the local Truck Stop, pre cut kits.
Happy Quilting all !!

And I helped - way too much!

Maybe someone should tell WalMart those facts. Seems to me that they bare loosing out on some of those $$$$. Maybe they will bring back their fabric department.

I just looked on the HGTV website and couldn't find anyway to contact them - thank goodness I quilt better than I search on the internet. Maybe someone else would be successful.

Ruby the Quilter

My bf is a trucker and I am trying to get him started, he doesn't have time on the road, dedicated run, but he is home for 2-5 days in between - he use to sew the squares chaining for his grandmother in graqde school then his mom when he was in high school, I think he needs to pick it up.
Working on the convincing part - he picks out great fabrics!

Holy Fat Quarters, Moda Woman!

We are quilters, hear us SEW! :D :D :D

We should all boycott quilting fabric suppliers. Just for one month, maybe they would be forced to lower their prices. I know that is hard to go cold turkey, but supply and demand sets the price. Where there is demand, price is high.

Just my two cents; can't afford more than that after buying fabric.

That averages out to about $171.43 per quilter. Hmmm... something's screwy here... I can spend more than that in 30 minutes' online shopping! That can't be right, if most of you quilters are like me. <G> I don't know where they got their figures, but I suspect they should do a little more research. Either that, or we're a darned good bunch of liars! <G>

I got my share covered. LOL

I got my share covered. LOL

I'm way behind this year! Oh well.

Don't worry, luv, I've already done my part... now I've done yours, too. (Gotta stop this!) :lol:

thats the entire population of australia! imagine an entire country full of quilters haha

One should be so lucky! Just imagine... kindred spirits wherever you turned. :lol:

I know I help get to that $ amount :lol: :lol: :lol:

Guess we have power with our numbers. Now how should we use it? Want to over throw some high priced local quilt shop? lol.

171.43 per quilter. Last week I spent $300 on batiks, yesterday I spent $110 for backing and red and blue fabric for soldiers. The end of February I spent $140 on batiks for my Dresden plate quilt. And at the beginning of January another $140 on holiday fabric. That $560 so far this year, I'm way over my share.

That's not including the $300 the day after thanksgiving. When is the QA (quilters annymous) meeting. Oh well, just one stitch at a time.

so why didnt that goofy old WAL MART figure that out and keep the material for us?

Maybe, they put the $ amount low so that way our dear spouses aren't suspicious and Think we only spend $172 year. lol ;)

with the Joann's ssale - I am way ahead of my share for this year ! I almost always buy on sale - so I figure I get more than my share all teh time and the stash keeps getting bigger - maybe one day I will be able to qit working so I can quilt more than on the weekends - and use up the stash ! - wishful thinking probably !

Loved it ~ too funny. Um, sadly, I think I am along these lines myself. I refuse to go back over the year and prove it up. :shock:

Did someone send this to Wal Mart?!!

From Don-isewman. That 3.6 billion, for fabric, will have a $$ increase more, on April 9th. My quilt guild is planning a bus trip, to go to 4 or 5 quilt shop's that day. So I've been saving my nickel's and dimes. Don-isewman

If we each spend around $171.00 each then I have $100.00 to go. Look out shops, here I come. LOL Oh, I guess I had better wait, it's early in the year yet.

The meetings were cancelled since all the quilters were either busy sewing or shopping for fabric. lol.

WOW Thats a lot of quilters

I don't know one quilter that spends less then $200 a year on quilting/sewing. How is that possible? LOL

I do my part...

Wow

Great article about quilting and knitting trucker!!!
Love the thought of 6 ft. 250 lb. guys knitting.

shade of Rosie Greer and his needlepoint in the '70's

$171 a year, come on. I sneak that much out of the grocery budget.

I laugh at that figure of $171 per quilter per year. I do that 3 or for times a year on batting alone. Maybe the figure was intended to show a monthly average.
Or is this figure wrong because of all the creative ways we fabric addicts have found to hide our recent purchases of stash, gadgets, and quilting necessities!!!! ;-) wink
Guess it doesn't really matter when you realize - we are helping to get the economy back on track. I'm proud to admit I'm an overage investor!
There has that for justification.

I'm wondering how they came up with these figures. Nobody talked to me!!