GailG

Oh, Mrs. Fitz, I hope that's not a weakness. I do it all the time. Sometimes I think if I'd go to my sewing machine instead of to my computer, I'd get a lot more done. But I keep wondering what's going on with the board, so I check it out several times a day. First thing in the morning, sometimes mid-morning, after lunch, sometimes before DH gets home from work :lol: , after supper, before bed. Even if I get up during the night (insomnia). :shock:

I figure I could be doing a lot worse things. So this is not so bad. :wink:

Feathers

Oh! No, I'm a fabricolic too. All the fabric store personnel call me by name and CALL ME when they have a piece of fabric come in that they know I'll love. Someone said they have more flannel than cottons. When Joann's had their sale in Dec. I bought about 200 yards to go with the other 300 yard I already have. I like to use the flannel for the backs on the quilts I make and donate to foster kids.

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.

GailG

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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. :?

Barbm

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

littlehud

Fabric in fall colors always calls me. I just can't resist.

G-Maw Wilda

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.

juneeloonee

Books, books, and more books! They can't seem to print them fast enough to satisfy my need to find new combinations! My second vice would be 3 yards of a fantastic print. I'm such a quiltiholic!

Shemjo

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:

pittsburgpam

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.

Feathers

LiveToQuilt....we NEED to see your crazy quilts with the embellishments.......we might want to have another "weakness" after we SEE what you are doing with yours. :lol: