Do the fabrics ever talk to you?
02-06-2010, 03:25 AM
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Originally Posted by feline fanatic
I had some fabric scream at me to buy it last summer in an LQS. Does that count? (I totally listened and obeyed!) :lol: :lol: :lol:
02-06-2010, 04:26 AM
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Are you kidding? My fabric hollers to me from my sewing room!
"Hey, come in here and make something out of us, we want to go out in the world and let people see us! I'll be on one project and a fabric will not let me be until I start making something with it, and then it calms down. (must be why I have so many UFO's, ya think?)
"Hey, come in here and make something out of us, we want to go out in the world and let people see us! I'll be on one project and a fabric will not let me be until I start making something with it, and then it calms down. (must be why I have so many UFO's, ya think?)
02-06-2010, 05:35 AM
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Well a couple weeks ago, on my cleaning up phase, I moved the fabric out of bins from the dining room and onto shelves in the bedroom. Mistake or not, but they are screaming at me more and more! I am looking at them now and they keep saying, get off your b*** and make something! :lol: :oops:
02-06-2010, 05:49 AM
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Your question and the answers have brightened my day. I usually say "I'm not feeling it" but when it calls out to me (and it does very loudly) I never waiver in my choices. Sometimes I think I hear someone else's fabric calling me!
02-06-2010, 05:55 AM
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(I bought this set of fat quarters, I really loved. I started making a turning twenty quilt for myself. About halfway through it I started "hearing" it tell me that my daughter Kelli needed it. Well, I finished it and my dh's first comment was, "Did you make that for Kelli?" Needless to say, Kelli has it and really loves it.)
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Is this quilt made of 20 pieces or is actually the name? May I see the photo of it?
Thanks,
JOY
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Is this quilt made of 20 pieces or is actually the name? May I see the photo of it?
Thanks,
JOY
02-06-2010, 06:03 AM
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Not only do they call to me when I'm shopping...sometimes they leap off the shelf and into my buggy. To put them back would hurt their feelings, and that would just be rude...so I keep them and love them-and EVENTUALLY, I use them!
02-06-2010, 06:36 AM
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This topic is another reason that I so like this board! I remember once that a quilt teacher suggested we lay out our fabrics for the quilt we were planning and let them talk to us. The same holds true for the quilt itself, especially when you are planning the borders. Put the quilt or the blocks on your design wall to audition the fabrics you will use. Sometimes the fabric you purchased is not the one you use. There's another fabric from your stash that is calling out to you. LOL
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