You Might Be A Quilter If You..........
 

Find needles in the arm of the couch
Know that ripitripitripit isn't the sound of a frog
Find fabric scraps in the fridge
See patterns in the floor tiles


Please add to the list!!

If you look at the landscape and think about colors that would go into a quilt.

I can't add but I do find needles in strange places and have lots of pictures of floor tiles for future quilts.

Really? Fabric scraps in the fridge? That's a new one for me. I've found my car keys in the freezer, but so far no fabric. I think I'll go look. ;)

if your friends used to constantly pull threads and tiny bits of fabric off the back of your sweater, but have long ago given up trying to make you look presentable. Instead, they spot a stowaway thread and ask how the quilting session went.

Love that last one about threads on your clothes. I have that all the time. LOL and yes dunster I quite often have scraps travel on me and fall off in the fridge when I lean over I guess. I do find them there once in awhile. or in the car or on the floor in the bathroom LOL

If everything you look at you try to make into a quilt pattern. You look for quilting books on the "Best Sellers" list.

When your furbaby looks like your thread catcher, doesn't know it and thinks you're just giving him a lot more attention picking the threads off of him.

When even though you have seen thousand photos of quilts on Pinterest.... you can always look at a few more.

When going on vacation, you contact Board Members to find out where the Quilt Shops are? LOL

When most of your emails and Facebook entries are quilt related.

Your desk chair wheels won't move anymore cause there is so much thread, fabric strings and dust stuck in them.

You know your a quilter when you can't leave the house for a long period of time with out something to stitch.
You live in Australia where everything is metric and you still talk in yards and inches.
You can't see a peice of fabric thrown away because you just know it will work in the corner of your latest scrap quilt.
You receive Christmas cards from the local fabric store.
When you organise your trips to town to coinside with the fabric store opening times.

Had to laugh, this happens all the time. So now I changed chairs.

when you spend all your free time on the board with quilty friends when you're not quilting

Except for finding scraps in the fridge I guess I'm a quilter.

You know you're a quilter when you put yourself to sleep thinking about projects, and dream you are making one of them :thumbup:

When you dream of patterns and color combinations. Or have the most amazing feeling when you take that last stitch on a project and its better than you thought it would be when you started.

If your friends are always picking threads off your clothes and theirs.

That's the reason i went to using my DH's old wheelchair! No more problems with the wheels LOL

You might be a quilter if your kids ask you how your visit with " Aunt Jo-Ann " went every time you come back from fabric shopping !

How do car keys or fabric wind up in the fridge LOL.

...When seeing fabric, or indeed anything quilting/sewing related your eyes glaze over, your hands itch, you are drawn to it like a moth to flame.....

As to fabric scraps they cling to me and fall off when I get in the fridge and I didn't notice.

Now for the keys. I stuck my keys in a grocery sack when I packed the groceries in the house. I forgot I did that.
Several days later I looked for them and could remember having them in my mom's car and after that no memory. we looked for a month for them.

A couple of days after I lost my keys my mom came in and had 2 doz eggs to leave me. she put them in a sack she found on my table. I took that sack and put it in the fridge.

a month later I picked up that sack of eggs sitting in the fridge and pulled them out to put them in the egg drawer. the sack felt heavy so I looked and yep there were my keys!! In a sack in the fridge while we looked high and low for them LOL

When you pass people in the street and think "that fabric (blouse, shirt, dress) would look great in a quilt" LOL

You are consistantly asking DH " Look at this, can't you make me something that would work like that, but better." Gotta love a DH that will try to make you just about any thing in his wood shop!

- You shorten the postman's life by lying in wait for that perfect fabric you searched the internet for to finish your quilt
- The only gifts you get now are vouchers for your LQS
- Offer to treat your family to the movies because someone told you there was amazing quilts in it (without telling them)
- You know every quilt shop's opening hours, discount days and fabric lines stocked for 100 miles.

I think I can add, your beds are unmade, the floor is unswept, dishes are in the sink..... there's a project to finish.

It's even worse when you tell them that, and being strangers they just look at you and back away...

My keys wound up in the freezer because I was putting away groceries and still had the keys in my hands. I probably set them down in the freezer while I was moving things around to make them fit, and then forgot they were there. It was probably 45 years ago, but I'll never live it down. They also wound up in the kitchen trash a time or two, but again it was long ago. It's nice to hear that someone else has done this too.

When all your bookmarks are quilt patterns and bloglovin is all quilting blogs to follow. Or you buy an iPad just to have something bigger to view your patterns on and look st qb pics. Lol. Yes I justified an iPad purchase for quilting. Lol.

when we was vacation and visit a church for sunday sevice. the front wall of it was so great that I draw it on the progam and when I get home I made a quilt in that design. now I fill bad I can't tall you what the masage was but I can see the front of the church.

If your hubby complains of finding threads on his socks.

Your husband won't go barefooted in the house because of getting pins in his toes!

When the vacuum won't pick up and you tear the bottom apart and there is so many threads wrapped around the beater bar it won't go around. This happened to DH!

When the only thing you can see from a airplane window is the different fields. I cannot count the number of pics I have taken. I have started collecting fabrics for one that has been on by bulletin board for several years of a saffron field in France.

You have scrap pieces in your purse and glove box in the car just in case you pass a new quilt store and have to stop to check out their inventory.

Oh my, My husband ask me this every time I leave the store. LOL

Going to Joann's with straight pins on your shirt. Everyone knows your a quilter.

You might be a quilter if you walk into Wednesday night choir practice and there's a bag of scraps from a total stranger on your chair!