Talk about painful!
#31
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 1,310
Boy can I relate. I just finished hand quilting an old quilt for this gal; she saw my bins under the quilt machine; I told her "that is nothing; it's just a 'drop in the bucket' compared to what is in what was originally my sewing room". I forgot to tell her about the bins in the garage. She said I needed an 'intervention'. She's probably right. I try not to buy things anymore unless it is for something I need to make and KNOW I do not have it. This sure is an addicting hobby! Which in turns makes it expensive. But keeps us out of trouble - well unless we go shopping!
#33
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Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 1,310
I've not purchased during black friday or Cyber Monday; frankly I didn't see anything to peak my interest enough to buy anything else. Free shipping is usually offered at a lot of sites anyway if you buy X amount - and most of us probably do. So unless the prices are way down there, it wasn't worth it to me; I didn't even bother looking at them this year.
#34
I stocked up on great priced fabric when I went to the Fall Paducah show. Seeing it still sitting in bags and piles stops me from more purchases... for now at least.
And then there are my precuts and scraps! All the stuff I've cut from leftovers, and 2.5 and 5" squares I've traded... Plenty to work with, for a looooong time.
I love fabric!
And then there are my precuts and scraps! All the stuff I've cut from leftovers, and 2.5 and 5" squares I've traded... Plenty to work with, for a looooong time.
I love fabric!
#36
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 3
Thank you for this post. Now I don't feel so guilty. I know I have more fabric than I will probably ever use, but I still love to look and dream. But I have been deleting and unsubscribing, because I am still in withdrawal. But isn't it lovely stuff
#37
I just moved from one house to the other. Don't feel badly, I found stuff I'd forgotten about for years!! Now, I feel like I'm set for life, but still that won't stop me if I find something I love....just don't tell my husband I said that!! ;-p
#39
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Iowa
Posts: 911
While I am sorry not to be supporting my LQS, moving things in my quilting studio always allows me to find something new to work on. When that should fail, I can always pick up a UFO. Going on year three of not purchasing material except for a special need or backing.
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I m dead scared to start quilting( i think i will do machine quilting cause of my painful arms/hands
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