WMUTeach

Ice, you are doing the valiant work of a good friend and as you said.... that does not include taking home what your friend does not want or can not use and wants to give to you. Perhaps you can help her re-home her generosity of stash to local organizations or to younger quilters. Stay strong!

newbee3

well I did not do very good went to local shop got some fabric it has been quite a while since I have done that and you know what I do not feel guilty I deserve it and the shop appreciates it

Julienm1

So shopped my stash last night for backing for PL quilt. Found 3 strips suitable so today I'll be able to glue baste and start quilt it tonight. And it's a UFO! YEAH!!!

b.zang

Today is the first time I've ever clicked into a Fabric Moratorium thread. I'm not sure I have 100 yards of fabric in my stash although it's possible. Okay, probable. I have a lot of smaller pieces rather than yardage but I really do want to feel like I'm in control of the fabric in my cupboard and drawers. Earlier this year I made a scrappy string quilt. I started with a bin of strips and finished with a big box. How is that possible? Now I need more strip projects that aren't all based on 2.5" strips because mine are narrower.
All that said, having joined here and committed to not buying "just because I like it" will sit in the back of my mind when I'm in the quilt shop and help me resist. I'm not sure I can resist fabric from other quilters, though.

Julienm1

Welcome, Barb. Everyone on this tread has or had an issue with fabric someone how ending up in our sewing room...uninvited!

Strip blocks...most of my string blocks use 2-inch strips. Even my log cabin blocks are 2 inches.

Gemm

Thanks to all who have been posting - I'm having issues with my computer and so checking in on the QB is a bit more complicated than it used to be.

Last week I cut into some yardage and have slowly been making HST sub units. Not feeling like long sewing sessions (nor is life allowing for them) but chipping away still feels like progress. I've been staring at these fabrics for about 3 years (and bought them back in the 1990s for a different type of project that never happened). "Big" win today was using up three partial bobbins in my piecing - I was doing laundry as well so I incorporated a couple of trips to the sewing machine as I wandered around with armfuls of clothes and towels. Small potatoes but boy does it feel good not to have to wonder what I'm going to do with 3 x 1/8 of a bobbin's worth of thread anymore! Tee hee!

Butterflyblue

Well, this is my first time on this thread this year, but since I was active in the Fabric Moratorium at the end of last year and in my head I’ve been trying to stay on the wagon all along, I have to confess that I went on an absolute fabric bender in January because a local store had a big sale to reduce inventory - 75% of it you bought everything on the bolt. So 12ish yards of white (mostly for the Alice’s Wonderland quilt I hope to do) and 4 cuts of about 3 yds each for quilts for my nephews (I will have at least half that left when I’m done with their quilts but I did the math and it was going to cost as much to just buy only what I needed). They’re all solids, though, so versatile. But still, I’ve never bought so much in two trips to the fabric store in my life.

Then I went to a quilt guild meeting and a lady brought in some bags of fabric given to her by the son of a quilter who passed away. I was only going to take a few small pieces of blue for my farmers wife quilt, but there were lots of strings and scraps that no one wanted and they would be thrown away, so they came home with me, a good size bag.

But now I am recommitted to not buying fabric unless I need it to finish a project that uses fabrics already in my stash, and to not buying for projects that I’m not going to start immediately, or preferably have already started. But my father-in-law is temporarily starting with us in the guest bedroom that was also my sewing room, so I’m not sewing as much as I had been. However, I can sew at the kitchen table, it just needs more set up and clean up.

73+quilts

OH MY……l went out rolling in my power chair today AND found a new Michael’s AND Hobby Lobby. I forced myself to stay out of both (besides l am out of fabric & stuff funds). I don’t really need extra stuff as l have 30 — 66 quart which is 16.5 gallons EACH full of fabric—not all are scraps. I have several pieces that are 5+ yards. Everything was free from the senior center but l won’t be getting anything more as we have moved from there. Now a new city and state with NO senior center for the general public.

Question: Anyone know how to make a Singer Heavy Duty stop clicking the needle without an expensive bill? Machine is new and l have only used it about 3-months but is out of warranty due to the move and not sewing for a few extra months.

Julienm1

What foot are you using? Is this a new sound with same foot/needle in place. Is it a manual or computer machine?

joe'smom

I had the strangest experience tonight with a pattern. It seemed straightforward enough. Cut such and such number of squares from certain designated fabrics (I wasn't using those fabrics, but I had corresponding fabrics that I substituted). The squares were to be made into HSTs. The diagram showed the stack the squares method, draw a line, stitch quarter inch from the line and cut on the drawn line for two HSTs. It listed all of these fabrics (A-U), and the number of squares to be cut from each fabric. Then it went on to give pairings for the fabrics, to be sewn into HSTs. It would say, 'make six HSTs from fabrics AN, OT, SQ (for example). The problem was that it kept asking for more and more of the HSTs, far more than the number of squares cut would allow for. I just wonder if I misunderstood something, or if their numbers were wildly off. For example, it says to cut 13 squares of fabric A, but then it says to make 26 HSTs with fabrics A/B, and another 24 HSTs with fabrics A/C.I've just kept cutting more and more fabrics as I've gone along. I feel like I definitely missed the boat somewhere.