Emma, it is so well organized! Love all your fabric.

I bet you guys now understand how I can pull whole quilts from my stash. By the by, the pile with the batiks is the infamous CT purchase.

Emma, since you're the last to post, and the first I see on this thread. I can honestly say I'm not jealous. I don't know would ever use that much in my life time. I love to buy in small portions, not unless I'm making a special quilt. Nice organization though

Oh,mu gosh, Emma! You are one lucky lady to have all that luscious fabric right there! I am just so jealous! You have your own store right there! Amazing! Love the organization and am inspired jiust looking at it!

Dear Emma, Thanks for sharing. I am not even jealous...well,...maybe a little bit at how well you have everything organized but just happy to see what you have and think of all the wonderful things that will come from it. Again your organization amazes me. I don't think I could ever be that neat. p.s. I 'suspected' who the 'friend' was, too! :-)

OMG, Emma, I didn't realize you live in a quilt store. U lucky girl!!!! I am not jealous either - only happy for you that you have such a lovely selection.

I - on the other hand, went to Pismo Beach for the quilting retreat and helped improve the economics of the region by visiting eateries and the LQS. lol - no, not as bad as anticipated. Only got some batiks to supplement the batch I have.

Next year might be a different story as we are meeting during the shop hop. gulp - already saving my $$.

I resisted temptation. I have a friend who comes & quilts once a month. Our visit normally ends by browsing online fabric stores, often sites that offer free shipping for a purchase of X dollars. Being the good friend that I am, I often add to her selection to bring the total up to qualify for free shipping. Yesterday we looked, we discussed, but didn't buy anything! Yay!

Princess: It's clear you just went to the wrong sites.

Paper Princess, you get another star for your halo. :o I won't go into my transgressions, but they did help out our gulid by buying at the quilt show. And it wasn't fabric as such, but tea towels. Yeah, I know they're fabric, but hey, they're already cut and hemmed! So it's not RAW fabric, yes? I do have to stop and use what I have. This wee house is not big enough for more!!

In the last 6 weeks, 2 new quilt shops opened up in my area. One is 6 miles south, one is 3 miles north. I visited the one to the south today and purchased a yard of fabric, just to welcome her & perform my civic duty to support local merchants. I'll hit the one to the north next week!

PaperPrincess, where in Michigan? I am always looking for new shops to visit! Thanks

In the Thumb, a bit far for you! One is in Romeo & one in Imlay City.

I just got thru moving my fabric again. Definitely not buying more for at least another year. It was the easiest move I ever made. I moved the small stuff by shopping cart and the big stuff by slider. It was worth it since I get a sewing room now. Once I get finished unwrecking it I should be able to start getting some stuff done again.

Thanks. Maybe I will have to plan a road trip and hit some other shops. Maybe in the Spring when the weather is better!

Well the other shoe dropped... I stopped at the new shop that's just to the north. Small selection, but beautiful fabrics and they were running a Hunting Widows sale. 30% off. I needed 2 yards for a Christmas quilt, so I got 6.

I have been playing in my sewing room and have decided I definitely do need to use some fabric before I buy more...but that doesn't mean I can't buy batting (4 yds of 127" width) and an Easy Angle ruler which I wanted. So I am riding happily along and haven't fallen off so far since my last tumble.

Sandy, you will love the EA ruler--I use mine all the time; sure saves on math.

Oh, I have definitely fallen off this wagon so many times this year. The good thing is that now our churchis doing a prayer pocket quilt ministry, and it's helping me use up my scraps! Yippee Skippy!! Not that it means I can/should buy more fabric, but it's good to get rid of some of it. I'm beginning to lose interest in the bed sized quilts. No one needs more, and charity quilts are good, but I just seem to need to carve out time!​ Sorry for the whine.

Coopah, doesn't sound like you are whining, sounds like you have found a great project!

Yippee, skippy is anything else but a whine. Hope you can make some quality time for your quilting, coopah.

Princess, I LOVE the way you reason: Need two - get six. Now THAT makes perfect sense to me. Great sale too.

I am getting ready to head to Germany and my sister told me that my home town has a hand-crafty store in town. Since she is not a hand crafter, she has never set foot in the store but she'll show me where it is. My sister owns a chain saw and the safety outfit that goes with it. I have never known anyone to get that excited when it's time to chop wood. Needle and thread are total foreign objects to her.

We had to go shopping at Walmart today and I perused the entire craft section (even petted some fabric) without buying a single thing. One point for me!

MadQuilter, did you ever get your new machine out of the box??? I've been waiting for a picture...

I'm packing to go to Germany for a 2-week vacation. Will post pics after I get back.

Have a great trip Martina--I'll take over the falling off the wagon duties for you--oops already have. LQS had nice flannel (kauffman) for $5 a yd so enough for quilt back at that price. Also a couple of 1 yd pieces at sale prices for what ever....

OK: Not a beat missed, nicely done!

Don't forget to take an empty suitcase Martina (or buy one whilst you are there). You are bound to find something fabulous to bring home. Safe journey.

Anybody have a fabric shopping expedition planned for Black Friday or Small Business Saturday? Looks like all the online shops have already started their sales (not that I've been looking or anything...)

Princess: Now that's just diabolical! I can get in enough trouble all by myself, thank you. Yeap, some good sales out there. Always my downfall. Not that I have been looking you understand..

Well, dear quilting wagon riders...I fell off again. Bought 10 yds (2 each of 5 different reds) from one of the folks here on the board. At $4/yd, I felt I needed to get it because a red and white quilt keeps calling out my name to make it. Plus...I am tempted to get up at 1a.m. Friday morning my time to check out a couple of the quilt shops online as their sales start at midnight their time. But going out on Black Friday in the crowds..no way. So much easier to sit in front of the computer. Happy shopping everyone..whatever you do. I am sure there will be lots of confessions being posted after Friday.

Won't be me! I just moved my fabric again. I have actually lost track of how many times I moved fabric over the last two years. Time for LOTS of it to go. I have a giant tub of fabric I'm taking to a large quilting group and I'm going to let anybody that wants it take it. I don't even care what they might want it for!

Well, I have to admit that I fell off the wagon. I stopped at an estate sale for two women quilters. I just had to buy the FULL apple size box of solids (which I never think to purchase) for $22! I had to give them a new place to play with all my other stash. So, while I did fall off the wagon, at least I did it at an estate sale that will help pay for a nice funeral. I got 1/2 to 4 yard pieces of every color I can think of. Pictures tomorrow!

Love the stories of the great deals. Well for me there was the infamous CT purchase, then there was 8 yards of the most beautiful Kona blue solid with a 60% coupon and last but not least two lengths of Keepsake fabric at 50% off. The good news is the net increase is 24 yards with the BH mystery starting that will use 11 yards of strictly stash. So the total increase since the middle of Oct will be 13 yards. Still a lot but not as bad as it first seems, just need to sew faster. I'm okay until I see fabric at $5 per yard or lower, then I land with a crash.

OK, me too... Great niece just announced that they are expecting. I don't have a lot of juvenile/baby prints. 2 of the last 3 baby quilts I made were batiks. Anyway I ran into a sale of really cute coordinating kid prints a couple years ago, one an all over and one a repeating stripe. Less than $3/yard so I bought what remained on the bolts. (Don't you look at me like that, you would have too). I've made one baby quilt and used up all my pastels. Looked on line yesterday and found the coordinating pastel solids from the same line for under $4 a yard, so I bought 4 yards total. Not too bad, and it's for a specific project.

It is passed Nov 1

I bought material Wed. This was only chance at that out of town material shop. There is two but only one had material I wanted. I bought what I wanted. Two , yes two clerks pulled bolts for me and piled in shopping cart as they would say if wanted it. . I told the type of what wanted. Boy did they find material and more material. One left for lunch I would guess , the other cut for me . I bet I made their day .

I want to have these animal quilts made up by summer .

All this great falling of the wagon and not a picture to be seen. I would so love to see pictures and I'm sure I'm not alone. Princess: I am so into anything baby right now so would love to see the old fabric with the new. Colorado: Sounds like a load of fun, not only picking the fabric but interacting with the store people.

Sometimes a girl has to do what a girl has to do! That includes buying fabric now and then. My bad habits are tea and chocolate, so sometimes it's okay to spend $$ on fabric. That's my bad habit!! REally, I thought I could avoid buying this year and joined this moratorium thinking it was a slam dunk. HA! But it's been fun getting to know the folks who struggle with too much fabric, and still want more. Someday I'll have more time and then the fabrics will be great. The pocket prayer quilts are quickly using up scraps, and that's what I needed. So to those of you who have resisted the call of the quilt shop/fabric store all year...you have my admiration!

My sister lives in a village of fewer than 130 souls and my home town has just under 4000. There is a TINY sewing studio in town and the selection of fabric is eclectic. I bought two FQS of Russian stacking doll fabric to go with the ones I already have.

Then my sis took me to Trier and she Googled fabric stores for me. I told her it wasn't necessary but she insisted. We ended up walking over half an hour and the further we walked the worse the neighborhood became. FINALLY we saw a sign "fabric" and we had to go down a creepy alley. The store was jam-packed floor to ceiling and not very modern. I bought one piece because it was such an effort. Lol

I am so excited about getting back home.

Martina: Sounds like you had quite an adventure. I would love to take a peak into a back alley fabric store. You've been missed, will be glad to see you back.

Martina: well every time you look at that fabric it will remind you of your adventure!

Are we all just being too good or are we all too busy falling off the wagon? I took a drive to the LQS (Fabric Garden in Sacramento) to check out their new (bigger and much brighter) location. They went modern to suit the store and it really works. Lots of space to walk around and actually appreciate the fabrics. I HAD to buy 8 FQ for the birthday swap. Everyone wanted a color or style that I don't have. One lady was OK to get "anything" and for the life of me, there wasn't anything in my cupboard.

The sneaky devils sent out 12 days of christmas specials so I did order a FQ packet and a discounted gift card but those are for gifts too. So I didn't do too badly (well, there are those 2 yards of orange paisley....)

Being busy cuts down on shopping time! Had 42 people over for dinner last weekend and I think I just recovered today!