Warning...don't organize your stash!

Reply Subscribe

Page 7 of 23

« First

Last »

Thread Tools

06-11-2011, 02:43 AM

#61

miriam

Power Poster

Join Date: Mar 2011

Location: Somewhere

Posts: 15,506

Look at it this way... you will stay healthy and live a very long time just to make sure you complete all your projects.... I need to live another 50 years to finish all my projects.

06-11-2011, 02:47 AM

#62

yetta

Super Member

Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: Manassas Va.

Posts: 1,233

you are in good company.....isn"t there a saying ..whoever ends up with the most fabric wins...

06-11-2011, 03:12 AM

#63

19angel52

Senior Member

Join Date: May 2008

Location: Dayton, Ohio

Posts: 591

whomever comes up with a 12 step program for fabricholics will make a mint of money - provided the clientele come....

By the way - I've tried that mantra and it does not work.....

06-11-2011, 03:15 AM

#64

GladGrams

Super Member

Join Date: May 2009

Location: Norway

Posts: 1,509

Guess the best idea for me is to leave things in chaos
:oops:

06-11-2011, 03:19 AM

#65

laparshall

Senior Member

Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: Jackson, Michigan

Posts: 808

I'm not addicted, I am simply a collector of fabric, patterns, and quilting projects, oh yeah, and I love rulers, and notions too.

06-11-2011, 03:23 AM

#66

quilt3311

Super Member

Join Date: Jul 2010

Location: Nebraska

Posts: 1,866

I'm a fabriholic!!!! AND I have no plan to stop!! BUT I am also a bargain hunter, for example I got an email from my LQS last night. At 9 this morning -all clearance fabric will be +40% off the price, plus clearance fat quarters will be $1. Flat folds (which they carry for backings) will be $3.99. Ask me who is going to be in front of the door when it opens? ME I need backing for a couple throw size tops, so will I save the $$ to get there, you bet, do I have something in the stash that would probably work, probably, but that can be used when fabric price goes out of sight.

06-11-2011, 03:28 AM

#67

star619

Senior Member

Join Date: Oct 2010

Location: Shreveport, LA

Posts: 733

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raggiemom

Any time I start to organize mine, the guilt gets to me!

I'm sorry, I thought you said "Anytime I start to organize mine, the quilt gets to me!"

That's what happens to me, I find something that I had forgotten about & get excited all over again. Perhaps I should call my stash Amazing Grace..."I once was lost,but now I'm found!" ;)

(No offense intended.)

06-11-2011, 03:30 AM

#68

cjr5107

Member

Join Date: Aug 2009

Location: Calif./Tenn.

Posts: 69

My name is Carol and I'm a quilter-oholic, I've been in quiltersoholic anonymous for three years. :mrgreen: :cry:

06-11-2011, 03:37 AM

#69

mar32428

Super Member

Join Date: Jul 2007

Location: Winter PArk, Florida

Posts: 1,145

Quote:

Originally Posted by pineneedles4

I give you this warning as a friend...Don't Organize your Stash! It might make you feel guilty. I decided yesterday to organize my stash. I wanted to put all of the batiks together, the cottons together and fabric for sewing clothes together. Well, while in the process of sorting...I kept coming across bags that held complete quilt kits or fabric for quilts with the pattern that I had picked out. I found 16 different quilt kits plus two quilt tops! (I'm going to take a wild guess that I MUST enjoy the planning process more than the actual sewing process...or at least this is what the evidence is pointing to...but I LOVE the sewing process...could it be that I just LOVE it all a little too much?) These are complete, ready to make with the patterns and most of them even had the quilt backing with them! Four were cut out and three were partially sewn! I also found the pattern and fabric for a new apron, the pattern and fabric for a bow-tuck purse, and the fabric for three different table toppers! So....I am banning myself from the fabric/quilt shops until I have completed at least half of these items!

I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric!

I am not a fabriholic...I can quit anytime....I will not buy fabric!

Vanessa in Oklahoma

Who are you kidding