Do You Buy Fabric With/Without a Plan?
01-02-2012, 11:25 PM
#31
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Unfortunately, I buy what strikes my fancy, but then it sits in my huge stash and goes out of style. If they wouldn't keep making new fabrics with wonderful patterns on them, I wouldn't be in the trouble I'm in!
01-02-2012, 11:26 PM
#32
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LOL, that's not hard to do either "make a plan". I can stand in front of a fabric I like and come up with some excuse------------oops, I mean plan--------------to buy it.
01-03-2012, 04:35 AM
#37
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I just buy what I like and worry about putting it together later. However, I have been using my stash for the last twelve months and refuse to buy extras to go with it. Some unusual combinations have resulted with surprising pleasure.
01-03-2012, 05:22 AM
#38
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I recently heard a saying that I think is true. A sewer goes to the store and buys a pattern and the fabric and notions for it and goes home to make it. A quilter goes to the store and sees the fabric she likes and buys it even without knowing what she's going to do with it. We love fabric and we know when we see fabric that we like eventually we'll use it somewhere or not. But we buy it because we like it and sometimes we buy it for a certain project.
01-03-2012, 05:27 AM
#39
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I only buy for projects. That said, I will overbuy by about a yard or 1/2 of each for booboos. That's where my (preferred) meager stash comes from. I'm not a 'scrappy' person and usually only do bed-sized quilts. I don't have room to store lots of fabric or the $$ to spend on it 'just because' at this point.
01-03-2012, 05:33 AM
#40
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I fall in love with the fabric and HAVE to buy it. (I've made myself stop looking for a while.) Unfortunately, when I decide to make a quilt, what I have usually doesn't go together. Then when I really do have a project in mind, I end up buying too many fabrics for it and I can't decide!
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