My first day here and I'm in. I have a bad habit of buying just because: it feels nice, it's pretty, I will use it someday and it is on sale and and and on and on my excuses go.

Welcome! Lots of Michiganders on this board. Hope you enjoy reading the posts & looking at all the great quilts posted for inspiration.

I am in again this year. I admit I bought a few yards of special material last year. But really did not buy muc ill till the Monday before Thanksgiving really. I did buy couple big spools white thread. And found a package of big needles for tying. Nor sure better than had. I really not sure how many yards of material I bought in Nov but probably 30 yds or so.

Well I totally blew my plans (and saved money) today.

I went to Joann's looking for some rick rack and other trims
for the doll quilt swap I am in. Made the mistake of going to
the fabrics to see what was new.

Cost me over $60 to get out of there. Than I stopped at Colorado
Fabrics (formerly Denver Fabrics), to check and see if they had any
rick rack and other trims in grey, they had a couple but I also found
several remnant pieces that are priced by the pound. These will be
use for making scarves with left overs going into my "crazy quilt"
boxes.

Alright I may have blown it. I bought 1 yrd of blender white for a quilt in my round robin. I am using scrap colors and white as the tie in.. I could not believe with all my fabric I had zero white. WHAT? worse yet went there for a yard of kona black. nope they had all other companys Hoffman, Kauffman, moda.. no KONA. argh. half through a project now to order it on line. paying 5.00 shipping for a yard of 5.99 fabric kills me.. makes you wanna.. just get a bit of this lol and a bit of that to well justify the shipping. DO YOU HAVE A YARD TO SELL???

I also, gulp bought 3/4 yrd scrap of red blender for 5.00 as I am out of a red in my stash and that is the next round. not enough scraps to fill in the red part or would have used them honest. I did not look at that adorable bunny fabric hugging daffodils nor did I see the pansy fabric or that.. nope didn't look all. This is hard and its only January! but if you saw my scraps I posted a week ago you would understand the need. And to me I only keep 10" or bigger, smaller goes in the donation bag to Jaba (she sells scraps) or to friends who say hey lady send them here! and how do we grow so many f4's? like turn your back for 10 minutes and there are.. MORE. ahhhh. so using those up after I finish my 8 plus UFO's. yikes. embarrassing to post that btw. that is way too many start but not finish projects. how lame :( upside I will finish them. They are next years holiday gifts :)

I backed 4 baby quilts from my stash. The tops were done by someone else last year so I needed to sandwich and then I either quilted and brought the back to the front or did a pillowcase turn and then quilted. 2 more to finish before I allow myself to bring more home from the Bundles of Love organization.

Brat, you didn't blow it if you needed the fabric and will use in a timely fashion. Blowing it is buying undesignated fabric and stashing it like what would happen if I were to buy the CT Red fabric.

Retiredteacher, those blankets are sweet! What a good accomplishment for this early in the year!
Brat, it's okay to buy as long as you have a plan for it that will happen soon. :thumbup:

i have not been a part of this group before would love to join for the support. I self imposed a moratorium last year and did pretty well. As least I used more than I bought! That was a start!!! Will join the group and use the support to carry on this year. Look forward to lots of pictures of beautiful projects!!

Ok I am officially in ! Last year I bought more fabric than I have ever bought in any one or maybe even 5 year span. But.....I did go to Bali... and could not leave without consuming every ounce of baggage allotment with batiks. I think mentally that's all it took and the seal on my wallet was broken.... and I continued to binge..in smaller amounts.
I have to keep telling myself ...don't worry next year they will still sell fabric ..and you will find them just as irresistable.