Why you should buy fabric when you see it!
05-23-2010, 05:33 AM
#24
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When it is a fabric that is really call to me, I get at least 3 yards. More if I can. None of it gets wasted. After I make my quilt, there is probably going to be enough for a table runner and then the rest goes into scrap quilts.
05-23-2010, 05:55 AM
#25
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This is something I struggle with all the time! If I really like something I get at least 3 yards, often getting the rest of the bolt is the prce is right. But I am seriously running out of room to store it all. I am trying to use more of it, meaning cutting it and actually sewing a top.
05-23-2010, 07:08 AM
#27
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Buy it when you love it. I was at a recent quilt show in Fort Worth. One vendor had a great panel of of black, white and red sophisticated ladies, cocktails, etc. from the 20's and 30's. I thought I would make a quilt for my daughter but I had already spent a bundle so I controlled my urge to splurge. Then I started accumulating black,white and red fat quarters to make this quilt. Now I can not find the fabric on any website.
05-23-2010, 08:33 AM
#28
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I usually buy three yards of fabric I really like, and I often buy a lot when it's own sale. My stash has grown so that I almost always have fabric when I see a pattern I like. It's great! I usually have to supplement a little, but I like this way better than going looking for fabric to fit the pattern. It seems to me that if I have a fabric I like and want to use, the pattern for it comes around eventually. Even my sock monkey fabric eventually found a pattern it liked.
05-23-2010, 09:05 AM
#29
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
It doesn't matter how much you buy or how experienced you are -
One buys too much of something one doesn't need and not enough of one that one wants to use sometime in the future.
One buys too much of something one doesn't need and not enough of one that one wants to use sometime in the future.
05-23-2010, 09:19 AM
#30
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Location: AZ and CT
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I started buying 4 yards of fabrics that SANG to me when I first started quilting. That's when fabrics were in the $3 range. Now, if a fabric sings to me I still buy 4 yards, but it really has to sing LOUDLY! When it's on sale, I 'll buy 4 yards of fabrics that I figure I'll use - especially those that would be good backings. I have a great stash now. I rarely have to shop when I start a new quilt - though I sometimes buy fat quarters to 'fill in.'
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