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12-25-2010, 09:32 AM

#21

ladydi64

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I just bought 120.00 worth of fabric from fabric shake and got 25% off. I bought enough to finish 4 quilts.

12-25-2010, 09:52 AM

#22

wendsy

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Location: Indiana

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JoAnns usually marks the material down closer to the holidays and may have good discounts after the holidays.

12-25-2010, 09:56 AM

#23

KathyAire

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Location: Fort Worth, Texas

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Originally Posted by pattypurple

I'm on a Fabric Diet starting the first of the year. Need to use up some of my stash. I'll only buy fabric if it is needed for a special project. Of course I always need something to "go with" what's in my stash.

Pat

Pat,
That is a wonderful idea. I'm going with you.
As far as the after CHRISTmas sales, I wouldn't go anywhere close to any shopping. Shop until one drops, doesn't take very long for me anymore.

12-25-2010, 10:01 AM

#24

merry

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Hancocks e-mailed me about their 60% off sale starting tomorrow.

12-25-2010, 01:46 PM

#25

BettyGee

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Originally Posted by llong0233

Quote:

Originally Posted by prairiequeen

Pat i need to do the same thing,but its really hard when you go in a see such neat fabric lines.My old fabric from the late 90's isn't even in the same class.

Therein lies the rub, eh? To stash or not to stash. When we stash we can end up with fabric that we fell in love with at the moment and had to have but don't use. I'm new to quilting and have a small stash but I don't think I will add to it. After reading what many of you have to say about stashes, I think I'll stop buying for a while. I already have more than I will use in a year (I don't make as many projects as some of you) and I don't want what I have to "old", either emotionally or in reality. Once in a while I go through the stash as see a fabric and I have to ask "Now, Lori, why did you absolutely have to have this fabric?" It's okay but I don't get the "rush" I did when I first saw and bought it. Boy, the psychology of stashing is deep and I'm pretty sure, for me anyway, there's more to it than having fabric. If any of you watch "Hoaders" or "Hoarders: Buried Alive" you know what I mean when I say I don't want to become an fabric hoarder!

I have returned to quilting after a thirty year absence and am building my stash. With the gift of a terrific five shelf unit from my DH on Friday it is all organized and I look at it and see projects. Made some wonderful buys on ebay and some were just because the fabric "called" to me. It will all get used, some not for quilts but for apparel or ornaments, etc. I don't consider myself a hoarder, a pack rat very probably; but as I get older I am trying to clean up what I just had to save so that my son doesn't have to wonder why Mom saved this or that.

12-25-2010, 03:02 PM

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Lori S

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What do you mean by "both" Eleanor Burns site .. I only knew about one! Also, I rec'd an email from Connecting Threads and they are having to go up on the price of material. Everything is going up!![/quote]

Wanda, Sorry it took me a bit to get back with Christmas going on.

Here they are: http://www.quiltinaday.com/
http://www.eleanorburns.com/default.asp?

12-25-2010, 04:24 PM

#27

grammysharon

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Location: Monmouth, Oregon

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One of our not so local quilt shop(JanniLou in Philomath Oregon) is having a 40% off on everything in the shop except Electric Quilt 7 on Monday morning @ 10:00 am. I plan to be there with bells on! HeHeHe!!!!

12-25-2010, 06:15 PM

#28

Darlene's

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Originally Posted by Wanda_GA

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lori S

Thousands of Bolts already started their sale ( very worth while to check out ) and so did both of the Eleanor Burns quilt in a day sites. Got a huge box from Thousands of Bolts , delievered today Merry Christmas to ME!

What do you mean by "both" Eleanor Burns site .. I only knew about one! Also, I rec'd an email from Connecting Threads and they are having to go up on the price of material. Everything is going up!!

yep I got the same email from connecting threads !!! so I stocked up last night lol

12-25-2010, 07:40 PM

#29

deedum

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I am trying real hard to be extremely frugal for 2011, so I can fund my roth fully! Someday I might want to retire so I can quilt all day! I do have a gift card, but I have plenty of stash and UFO projects, what's a girl suppose to do when the sales are 50-60 % off? Do we take advantage of buying batting and material and such while it is such great sales? I don't know, I am staying out of the stores til I need somthing.

12-25-2010, 07:50 PM

#30

llong0233

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Quote:

Originally Posted by deedum

Wow...good thinking to have funding your Roth IRA as a goal. I'm retiring this year and plan to spend a lot of time quilting when I do. I say go shopping, look at the fabric and, as a very wise woman once advised me, "Is is beautiful? Do you love it? Will you use it in the next 6 months? If not, walk away from it." Your IRA will be more beautiful later if you are very selective about fabric buying now. Not preaching, I hope, just wishing you absolute success in funding your future quilting! Good luck!