i feel like the whole "buy the line" is great for the mills and distributors because one is inclined to buy more fabric from the same source. the idea that a quilter SHOULD have ALL the fabrics has been a tremendously successful marketing tool. it does make it easy for quilters to ensure their fabrics coordinate, but sometimes the quilts look just too coordinated...too off the shelf or ready made for my taste.
for myself i love to play with colour and texture. i buy for one project at a time and very seldom submit to the impulse to just buy 1/2/3 meters of what i like for no reason aside from the desire to have it. the few times i have done that can be found in the quilting cupboard, sitting awkwardly with the slow accumulation of scrap bits from completed projects, lonely and sadly unused.
the whole blog universe mostly irritates me. but that is another post altogether (i should blog it. but no. ha!!)
aileen