What's your weakness
#71
Originally Posted by mrs. fitz
Not a "shopping weakness" altho I certainly have those - a big weakness is checking the topics on this board several times a day. Always something to learn, always pictures to enjoy.
I figure I could be doing a lot worse things. So this is not so bad. :wink:
#72
Originally Posted by Pam S
Originally Posted by Jim's Gem
Hi my name is Gayle and I am a fabriholic. Mine is fabrics. I have to buy some every week, just about. Especially if it is on sale. I have store about a mile from the house and of course it is on the way home. And it is right next to Trader Joes, so I must stop weekly and see what is on the sale table and what new fabrics have come into the shop. All the employees know me by name and everyone says "hello". Then there is my favorite store that had been putting fabrics on sale for $1.69 a yard and I cannot resist buying the whole rest of the bolt of a quality fabric that I like. Everyone there knows my name also. Too bad that store is closing. I prefer yardage cause fat quarters are never enough, especially if I like it. I love lucious florals and I am a sucker for the Kaufman "Fusions" in all kinds of colors.
My BIGGEST WEAKNESS...sounds really funny but I love SCRAPS. I've made dozens and dozens of scrap quilts and I have a couple friends who give me their scraps because they don't do scrap quilts. I LOVE these bags of scraps more than the yardage i actually buy myself. It warms my heart and the bodies of the people who receive my scrap quilts because I'm using up something that would probably be thrown away. Scraps are my biggest weakness and my greatest joy when making a new project.
#73
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OOps. I did something wrong. This is a quote from a previous post.
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My BIGGEST WEAKNESS...sounds really funny but I love SCRAPS. I've made dozens and dozens of scrap quilts and I have a couple friends who give me their scraps because they don't do scrap quilts. I LOVE these bags of scraps more than the yardage i actually buy myself. It warms my heart and the bodies of the people who receive my scrap quilts because I'm using up something that would probably be thrown away. Scraps are my biggest weakness and my greatest joy when making a new project.[/quote]
OK, so what's wrong with me? I just love, love, love scrappy quilts. But when I take out all the scraps, I just don't know what to do with them. I sit there and look at them and don't know where to start. How do you decide which ones to use? I know this sounds really bad. Am I too structured-minded to relax and use the scraps? Woe is me. :?
OOps. I did something wrong. This is a quote from a previous post.
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My BIGGEST WEAKNESS...sounds really funny but I love SCRAPS. I've made dozens and dozens of scrap quilts and I have a couple friends who give me their scraps because they don't do scrap quilts. I LOVE these bags of scraps more than the yardage i actually buy myself. It warms my heart and the bodies of the people who receive my scrap quilts because I'm using up something that would probably be thrown away. Scraps are my biggest weakness and my greatest joy when making a new project.[/quote]
OK, so what's wrong with me? I just love, love, love scrappy quilts. But when I take out all the scraps, I just don't know what to do with them. I sit there and look at them and don't know where to start. How do you decide which ones to use? I know this sounds really bad. Am I too structured-minded to relax and use the scraps? Woe is me. :?
#74
I thought I was the same way- too structured- but.... I discovered quiltville.com and I'm stuck. String quilts and crumb blocks. This board sent me there.
It's all ltheir fault I'm like this. (Isn't denial one of the steps of recognizing you have an addiction?)
Barb
It's all ltheir fault I'm like this. (Isn't denial one of the steps of recognizing you have an addiction?)
Barb
#76
I have trouble with passing up fabric in any store that has it, I have to look at all of it. I usually end up buying some before I leave the store. My worse problem is quilt books, I didn't realize how many I had until I got ready to put them all together. I think that I have a book with every pattern in print. Just ask, I probably have itl.
Lately, I have been taking cake decorating classes, so far I love them.
Lately, I have been taking cake decorating classes, so far I love them.
#78
I always have to check out the new books when I go to the LQS, also, but I have no more room to put them when I come home! :(
I have discovered the library at my guild and the public one also! :lol: I can get my fix, and give them back! :lol:
Juneeloonee, are you new? Welcome to the board from St. Louis! :lol:
I have discovered the library at my guild and the public one also! :lol: I can get my fix, and give them back! :lol:
Juneeloonee, are you new? Welcome to the board from St. Louis! :lol:
#79
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: California
Posts: 3,502
Thanks to this board I have found a new obsession... fabric on eBay. I was browsing posts and read someone mention buying fabric on eBay. I never thought of it, never realized that there were sellers of fabric.
So.... I took a look. Bought a 8 FQ set of beautiful blues and yellows. Then when I decided what I was going to do with it I needed a yard of two of the fabrics, bought that. Then another yard of a green for vines. Then 5 yards for a background fabric. Then a pattern I liked and of course, 31 FQs of Civil War reproduction to make the pattern.
I am VERY SERIOUSLY eyeing a set of 140 FQs for $149!! I almost hit that button last night and I really don't think I will be able to resist for long.
I never really had a stash, only bought as I needed it but wow... they are all so beautiful and I can just imagine the cubbyhole shelves in my sewing room filled with fabric.
So.... I took a look. Bought a 8 FQ set of beautiful blues and yellows. Then when I decided what I was going to do with it I needed a yard of two of the fabrics, bought that. Then another yard of a green for vines. Then 5 yards for a background fabric. Then a pattern I liked and of course, 31 FQs of Civil War reproduction to make the pattern.
I am VERY SERIOUSLY eyeing a set of 140 FQs for $149!! I almost hit that button last night and I really don't think I will be able to resist for long.
I never really had a stash, only bought as I needed it but wow... they are all so beautiful and I can just imagine the cubbyhole shelves in my sewing room filled with fabric.
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