Warning...don't organize your stash!
06-16-2011, 07:10 PM
#211
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i have a problem i work at a quilt shop part time and spend more than i make there. im trying not to buy any more fabric because i whant an acuquilt studio cutter but when i told DH he said i couldent stop buying fabric that long to save upp for the cutter. plus i just got two totes off fabric from somone who was clearing out her stash. so now i need more storage.
06-17-2011, 02:35 AM
#212
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Ok, I am addicted to fabric.
I think the real problem started last summer...I was visiting my mother (cross-country). She had some fabric she wanted to give me as she's not sewing much anymore. We found this great seashore panel that surprisingly I also had at home (somewhere). So we thought we'd just go to her wonderful LQS & find some coordinating pieces for the back & borders to share. Somehow, we couldn't find the "right blue", sort of a washed out periwinkle...so I told her just look on the internet. She doesn't use a computer, but has access. So I found a great fabric online & she wanted to see MORE. Long story short, she didn't buy any more fabric, but I found some great fabric shops online by themes & ways to search for older fabrics. When I got home, it seems I just had to go look around again. Even when I'm not buying, I love to organize & touch the nice fabrics.
This seems to be like food for me, I could just skip eating, but I just love to see all the colors & designs in fabric. Quilts too...when's the next quilt show?
Anyone going to the Long Beach, CA show at the end of JULY?
BTW, someone posted a great site for crock-cooking, so you can quilt all day instead..."Mennonite girls can cook".
I think the real problem started last summer...I was visiting my mother (cross-country). She had some fabric she wanted to give me as she's not sewing much anymore. We found this great seashore panel that surprisingly I also had at home (somewhere). So we thought we'd just go to her wonderful LQS & find some coordinating pieces for the back & borders to share. Somehow, we couldn't find the "right blue", sort of a washed out periwinkle...so I told her just look on the internet. She doesn't use a computer, but has access. So I found a great fabric online & she wanted to see MORE. Long story short, she didn't buy any more fabric, but I found some great fabric shops online by themes & ways to search for older fabrics. When I got home, it seems I just had to go look around again. Even when I'm not buying, I love to organize & touch the nice fabrics.
This seems to be like food for me, I could just skip eating, but I just love to see all the colors & designs in fabric. Quilts too...when's the next quilt show?
Anyone going to the Long Beach, CA show at the end of JULY?
BTW, someone posted a great site for crock-cooking, so you can quilt all day instead..."Mennonite girls can cook".
06-17-2011, 06:02 AM
#213
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Location: Newalla, Oklahoma
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Originally Posted by okie quilter
i do not buy cuts of fabric...i now purchase entire bolts. i am sure this is about as severe as i can get. teehee...just watch. next i may buy the entire lqs.
06-17-2011, 07:42 PM
#214
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Originally Posted by pineneedles4
Originally Posted by okie quilter
i do not buy cuts of fabric...i now purchase entire bolts. i am sure this is about as severe as i can get. teehee...just watch. next i may buy the entire lqs.
06-21-2011, 10:43 PM
#215
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Originally Posted by pineneedles4
I give you this warning as a friend...Don't Organize your Stash! It might make you feel guilty. I decided yesterday to organize my stash. I wanted to put all of the batiks together, the cottons together and fabric for sewing clothes together. Well, while in the process of sorting...I kept coming across bags that held complete quilt kits or fabric for quilts with the pattern that I had picked out. I found 16 different quilt kits plus two quilt tops! (I'm going to take a wild guess that I MUST enjoy the planning process more than the actual sewing process...or at least this is what the evidence is pointing to...but I LOVE the sewing process...could it be that I just LOVE it all a little too much?) These are complete, ready to make with the patterns and most of them even had the quilt backing with them! Four were cut out and three were partially sewn! I also found the pattern and fabric for a new apron, the pattern and fabric for a bow-tuck purse, and the fabric for three different table toppers! So....I am banning myself from the fabric/quilt shops until I have completed at least half of these items!
I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric!
I am not a fabriholic...I can quit anytime....I will not buy fabric!
Vanessa in Oklahoma
I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric!
I am not a fabriholic...I can quit anytime....I will not buy fabric!
Vanessa in Oklahoma
06-23-2011, 04:11 AM
#217
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL
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Well, I think that you did a great thing to organize and NOW you will be making some quilts that you have all the material to complete them !!
I say you did a good thing.
I am doing same thing. I have been a quilter for only 1 1/2 yrs. and I even have too much material, only have some squares cut out for one other quilt but I have a lot of backing for quilts in different themes etc. Think it is a good thing to stay away from the fabric stores for a while.
Your not alone !!
Eisgoow (Diana_
I say you did a good thing.
I am doing same thing. I have been a quilter for only 1 1/2 yrs. and I even have too much material, only have some squares cut out for one other quilt but I have a lot of backing for quilts in different themes etc. Think it is a good thing to stay away from the fabric stores for a while.
Your not alone !!
Eisgoow (Diana_
07-07-2011, 07:01 PM
#218
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SW Minnesota
Posts: 1,590
Originally Posted by jojo47
Originally Posted by pineneedles4
I give you this warning as a friend...Don't Organize your Stash! It might make you feel guilty. I decided yesterday to organize my stash. I wanted to put all of the batiks together, the cottons together and fabric for sewing clothes together. Well, while in the process of sorting...I kept coming across bags that held complete quilt kits or fabric for quilts with the pattern that I had picked out. I found 16 different quilt kits plus two quilt tops! (I'm going to take a wild guess that I MUST enjoy the planning process more than the actual sewing process...or at least this is what the evidence is pointing to...but I LOVE the sewing process...could it be that I just LOVE it all a little too much?) These are complete, ready to make with the patterns and most of them even had the quilt backing with them! Four were cut out and three were partially sewn! I also found the pattern and fabric for a new apron, the pattern and fabric for a bow-tuck purse, and the fabric for three different table toppers! So....I am banning myself from the fabric/quilt shops until I have completed at least half of these items!
I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric!
I am not a fabriholic...I can quit anytime....I will not buy fabric!
Vanessa in Oklahoma
I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric, I will not buy fabric!
I am not a fabriholic...I can quit anytime....I will not buy fabric!
Vanessa in Oklahoma
07-07-2011, 07:30 PM
#219
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: El Paso, TX
Posts: 142
Originally Posted by DebQuilter50
I have stash envy. Right now it would take me less than a minute to organize. Or maybe its quilt envy or fabric envy. I am on my way to Paducah on the way home from vacation so I plan to help keep the quilting industry going for those of you who say no more buying. (P.S. I can tell this is an addiction that does not go away, so I think we will all continue to buy, buy, buy!)
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