Do your fabric tastes change like mine?

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02-05-2011, 07:24 PM

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sueisallaboutquilts

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Yes, my tastes seem to be like a pendulum- I go back and forth!!! It's fun~!!!!! :D

02-05-2011, 07:30 PM

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Bottle Blonde

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My taste in pattern and texture changes....but I seem to always be attracted to the same colors.

02-05-2011, 07:31 PM

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sharoney

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Love just about everything but have been drawn to batiks lately.

02-06-2011, 02:36 AM

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quilterella

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Originally Posted by Janetd

I'm flipping through my latest Hancock's catalog. I've mostly been a traditional calico girl. I've always loved the Moda's. The batiks here have really grown though I've only played with them. Don't like to rinse them so much. The civil wars have gotten so much more popular. Used to be about 4 pages for them now there is about 14. I've played out my civil war craving, even got a movie on it! And the fabrics they are doing now where the colors look painted on are fabulous! But lately my eyes are drawn to the modern brights of Amy Butler and designers like her. I've even been passing on (selling) my claicoes so I can buy some of these brights. Amazing because when I first saw them I immediately didn't care for them. Maybe this is a common occurrence of the aging process? Do your tastes change like this too?

When I first started quilting, it was florals, large and medium, whether that was all there was or that was what I chose because I thought that reinterated quilting? Now. I don't even look at florals when I'm looking for fabric, I go for tone-on-tones, batiks and anything with movement. I think our taste changes, as more and more choices become available.

02-06-2011, 03:12 AM

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DAWNROBIN

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I like the way the way the menu looks before purchasing everything including the desert, yummy to change, I have to pet the fabrics also.That's what makes me happy about changing my mind all the time.

02-06-2011, 04:58 AM

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pjustice63

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That's called "growing". We have all grown as we continue to quilt.

02-06-2011, 07:11 AM

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jdiane318

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I have yet to meet a fabric I didn't like, some I loved more than others. It's kind like eating vegetables. When we were young, there were things we weren't very fond of such as brussel sprouts, hominy, spinach. As we have gotten older, we end up liking and enjoy those veggies because your tastes mature and change.

02-06-2011, 08:49 AM

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Juliebelle

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I have noticed that my tastes have changed a lot since I started quilting about 10 years ago. Back then it was a lot of large flower prints and more muted colors, now I am into brights and I have a real addiction to polka dots and anything with circles on it. I am using up my older fabrics as scrape blocks and it is amazing how that changes the look of the fabric.