You wake up out of sound sleep and have to go upstairs to draw a quilt layout you were dreaming about.
When work cuts into your quilting time.

-your family has to guide you by the ARM in a hotel lobby to keep you from bumping into people while you are taking those pictures

-you look at the pastors shirt and wonder if he would mind if you took a picture of it: GREAT leaf pattern for quilting!

-you HAVE to run back into hotel to take a picture of the wall of the ELEVATOR as it has a great 'doodle' for quilting (honest! the family was waiting drive the 5 hours home!)

love this thread..and knowing..I am NOT ALONE! :-D

I'm jealous, what a wondeful way to spend a flight.

You right click on all the great quilt pictures on the Quilting Board to save for inspiration!

oh! and I forgot...

you KNOW you are a quilter when your DH calls from the Home Center...after you have been looking for an area rug for 6 months. He KNOWS its the right colors, so the next day you drive across town to see it and its a Log Cabin!

You know you are a quilter when you start carrying your camera around to get a better, clearer picture than you can get off your phone, of all the possibilities out there.

you can spot fabric at a yard sale before you stop...your clothing has lint attached......if its the right price, you know it will work up into SOME quilt you will make one day....you see coloring book patterns that would make a great embroidered block for a baby quilt, or even some for big quilts, like flowers, trucks, etc. so you buy it and the grandkids aren't allowed to color in it til you have picked the ones you may use!---you ask for the craft & fabric section of the thrift store when you walk in the door...

I'm with you, Central Ohio Quilter. We'll be remodeling our basement soon and I want a tile floor with a quilt pattern in it!
Also, whenever my husband talks about the road trip we are planning to take from Seattle to New Mexico, my first thought is, "What quilting projects can I take to work on while riding in the car?".
Of course, I've done all the other things mentioned, too!!!

When you take the time to read all 9 pages of responses to this question just to determine that you are not alone, as I am guilty of all of the above. lol

What a nice rug done in a log cabin pattern! I downloaded it.
Thanks for the idea.

When I keep every piece of 5 x 7 card stock that comes inside magazines or in junk mail! I am always thinking, "Template". LOL

I have a favorite pair of floral cotton pants. Every time I wear them, people
always say they would be good in a quilt and can they have them.
Of course I say "no"---I like them too much to cut up."

When you can't concentrate at work cause your thinking about the quilt your piecing or quilting. And would much rather be there doing that.

go one better,.. I had a man in to check heater vents as we approached my guest/sewing room I asked if his wife quilted. he said yes. I said,"then I don't have to explain this room..". He just laughed.

here's when you have it real bad-

car shopping-

I can afford a 2011 Cadillac SRX4. (I have done the mini van route, the duct tape and rope between the back doors with my arm across the back of my seat to put pressure on the rope so the doors don't fly open 'cause they froze when the kids got out at day care, the car that lasted 17 years and through 6 kids learning to drive, etc.- I DESERVE a new car!)

So hubby and son and I are walking around local dealer lot- I wear jeans from Wal-Mart, shoes from K-Mart, sweater $12- Wal-Mart, coat- too big, but was on clearance at Eddie Bauer. I don't look like I can afford a Cadillac. I have the cheapest cell phone- free, 4 years ago. Hair is not curled, it is Sat.- I pulled it back in a hair clip. I do have on make up and contacts and will never leave the house without a shower.

Anyway- I narrow it down to 2 cars. Sales guy gets me ticked off- guess he thought I couldn't buy this car. Keeps pushing lease and his financing. I say no- purchase and my credit union. So I say- I have never paid full price for anything and I will not start now and you don't want my money and besides its money I was saving for a long arm (hubby shoots me a glance, like, OMG she's serious she wants one of those!) so I'm going now. Thought hubby and son were going to die- son says- are you really going to walk away? The guy is behind me- I say yes- I can use my money for a long arm.

So a car or a long arm.... hmmm....

Long arm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup:

When your husband has threads all over him - that match the quilt you're working on!

so do I!!

SOOOOOOOOOOO Cool........... :thumbup: :thumbup:

You know your a quilter when....
you wear a t-shirt that says "Quilters aren't greedy, they're just materialist", forget that you have it on and go to an estate sale listing quilt supplies;
you see a fabric sale and buy more after you finished spending your next six months budget on fabric 2 weeks ago;
you let someone buy you a quilt kit because you said that you liked it - knowing you'll probably never get time to finish all the quilt kits you have on hand now;
you see a pattern for a quilt and start doing the math so you can figure out how much yardage you need to make it;
you talk your daughter or best friend into loaning you money for fabric that you just have to have so no one knows that the fabric is yours!

when you spend $35 for a plastic templet for a new counter top you plan to put in yourself and you are over joyed that you will never need plastic for templets again lol

You know you are a Quilter when you have threads stuck to the Velcro on your tennis shoes!

I say Amen to all the above!! :)

When at a garage sale, you spot a large jar full of buttons of every kind for 10 cents and you have tons of them already. Just had to have them.

the other day I was bowling. One of my teammates had alternating strikes and spares. I looked at all the X's and /s on the scoreboard and thought about a quilt border. Also when I watch a movie on tv I'm noticing wallpaper patterns or a brick wall design in the background.

You are in a class and there's an exercise to build a square from oddball shapes. Your group finishes first because the weird angles remind you of a quilt you completed last year. LOL

After working all day, you come home and feed the dogs, and get dinner on the table, and do dishes, and do a few loads a loads of wash. Then, pooped out, you put on your jammies and secretly sneak to your sewing room... You fall asleep at your sewing machine and the next day you have a dent on your head from where it hit the thingy that takes up the thread! (True story!)

You know you are a quilter when you clean out your purse and have 7 spools of thread, small scissors, thimble, and a tube of extra needles...Just saying

Oh yesd,that's me !!! :thumbup:

I may be on my way to bed but have to make one more trip out to my little quilt shop just to look around. It's a 10x12 shop separate from the house.

............when you get ready to go out to eat and your husband stops you at the door, and tells you to turn all the around while he picks threads off your clothes.

I know a quilter when I go into the fabric store and see what kind of thread the lady in front of me has purchased

Ha!!! This just happened to me today... I had thread all over my black sweater. I started on one of my projects as soon as i hit the floor at home, decided I had to go to the store for milk and bread. Looked down at myself getting into the car on the way home and realized I was totally covered in thread. LOL...Ha,ha,ha.

Did your sewing machine leave an impression on you :)

ditto for me too...... :lol:

you know your a quilter when you buy an entire house for you and all your friends to sew in and store your stash and quilting
tools !!!!
that would be my mother in law ))))). quilting is the second best gift shes ever given me. the first being her baby boy )))).
carla

You actually tell someone you love the print of their shirt or whatever, AND SAY it would look great in a quilt! Been there, done that! :lol: :roll: :lol:

You ignore the glazed look in your friends eyes while you discuss the latest greatest project because you know they LOVE hearing about yet another UFO.

I was in Wallmart the other day. One of the supervisors had on an overshirt made with a georgeous blue and white print.
She saw me looking at it and said "What?"
I said "Lookout! I am tempted to do a Fons and Porter cutout from the back of your shirt!"
Didn't she laugh!
She wasn't a quilter but had seen their ad on one of the quilters magazines they carry.

Have you noticed the beautiful quilt on the bed in some later episodes of "As Time Goes By"?