OK - I Am A "Fabriholic"
03-21-2011, 06:03 PM
#81
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Location: Port Lavaca, TX
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Originally Posted by Happy Tails
LOL Jeannie you're a doll, I am going to try that. Thanks for the advise and I will KISS LOL that was cute Wendy
Jeannie
03-24-2011, 02:37 PM
#84
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
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After living in Milwaukee for 55 years, we moved to be closer to our kids.(now I'm wondering if that was such a good idea). Anyways, when we moved, my son said there were more boxes marked "Mom's Sewing Room" then any others.I had the biggest bedroom in the house filled plus 55 gallon totes in the basement with fabric. So, I'm in the "Hall of Shame" also. But I have enough quilt kits that's I have vowed not to buy anymore. I have a complete kit of the Dear Jane quilt as well as a kit for Sylvia's Bridal quilt, just to name a few. I'm 58 and I just hope if finish everything before I die. And I don't even have grandchildren yet. I think I'm in deep trouble :(
03-24-2011, 03:58 PM
#85
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston
Posts: 223
Totally feel the same way. I get an itch to just do all things quilt related. Buy fabric, read this board, look at fabric on the internet, go to a store just to smell fabric, etc. I can't concentrate at work sometimes just knowing that I'd rather me home quilting. Before my son was born in October instead of nesting / cleaning the house I quilted non-stop could not get enough.
03-28-2011, 11:13 AM
#86
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Republic, Mo. Near Springfield
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I tell my kids that sewing room keeps me out of the pool halls and off the couches of the phisco's it must be by salvation. But this year I have finished a quilt almost every time we have heard of some emgergency where someone could use the comfort of a quilt to snuggle in I surely can't keep them all and am so grateful for family that says let give this one here under or there where someone really needs it.
03-28-2011, 11:19 AM
#87
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: La Grande, OR
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For the general public, my fabric shelves are neatly arranged and in order. DO NOT step beyond this point. You will find boxes and boxes overflowing with scraps and UFO's. I think this is order because what I'm looking for has to be in there somewhere. I might even find the remains of husband #2.
04-01-2011, 02:10 AM
#89
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Dupont, WA
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I'm a fabriholic too! I came to that diagnosis two months ago. I am sitting at my desk right now (at work) with 5 trashbags of fabric at my feet and around my desk. I want to touch it all before I put it away for charity quilts. Its been in the same spot for 3 days but we have been so busy with work I just stumble over it every time I get up. I'm going to work on it at dinner time. I went home on leave a month ago and I spent most of my spare time in my new sewing room sorting out and purchasing more fabric.
04-01-2011, 03:39 AM
#90
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: OKC, OK
Posts: 864
I know I feel the same way. No telling how many times I circle the store inside, always missing something. Or I get drawn in by one of the samples and must make one !! They probably think I'm shoplifting!!
Originally Posted by Emma S
Sometimes I slink into my local fabric store. It feels like I'm there so freguently that the clerks probably think, "She's here so often and stays so long, she must be up to no good." Ah the humiliation of addiction.
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