Fabric Obsession Confessions
12-10-2010, 09:50 AM
#51
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Alabama
Posts: 165
Would do me no good to join the fabric moratorium. I am restocking my stash, after years of having none at all. Having a ball reading everyone's ideas and loving this site. Can't wait for the sales. Seems to me material has really increased in price since 10 years ago.
12-10-2010, 09:52 AM
#52
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 438
I felt I got out of control, so last year I promised my husband
I would not purchase fabric, the only fabric I would was to finish
a quilt, and spend no more than $10. And I did it, I was very proud of myself, (it was sooooo, hard) especially when I went to the Quilt Shows with all those vendors...
I think again I am spending way too much money, just because I like it..so I need to curve my spending and get some projects
done. Let's all encourage each other to do our UFO's the month of January.
I would not purchase fabric, the only fabric I would was to finish
a quilt, and spend no more than $10. And I did it, I was very proud of myself, (it was sooooo, hard) especially when I went to the Quilt Shows with all those vendors...
I think again I am spending way too much money, just because I like it..so I need to curve my spending and get some projects
done. Let's all encourage each other to do our UFO's the month of January.
12-10-2010, 11:08 AM
#56
Super Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: San Francisco Bay area
Posts: 1,419
Originally Posted by raptureready
A good way to avoid fabric stores is to re-organize your stash. Or at least it works for me. When I do that and realize how much I actually have, how there's not room to store what I have, and how much simpler my life would be if I didn't have so much, it makes it much easier NOT to buy. However, I'm going to a fabric store today and will probably buy backing for at least one quilt if not two. Oh and a batting. And I'm planning to go to Fat Tuesday in February---where a LQS has all their fats on sale for $1.50 and the person that buys the most wins a prize. (I came in second last year with 68). The first week in June I'll be going to Marshal's Dry Goods in Bateville Arkansas on a MAJOR FART. Probably bring back several hundred dollars worth of fabric but their batiks are usually on sale that week for $2.99 a yard.
12-10-2010, 11:30 AM
#58
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 506
Originally Posted by sumcoop
It is almost impossible for me to pass up a bargain. I can stay out of the regular cloth shops even with a sale for fabric, but can't pass up cloth from the thrift stores.
I have flannel sheets, shower curtains, etc...anything big and cotton and cheap....it usually comes home with me.
I am trying hard to beat my addiction...but not succeeding.
Who can pass up 9 yards for $3????? You know you can make something sometime.
Told my Mom cotton prices were going up...her reply"Don't worry you will have enough to sew until you are my age(81)...another 30 years.
Went again today and found beautiful gold tones....$1 for about 3 yards...washing it now and a sheet that was multicolored bright small stripes....king size....$1. ya just can't pass that up.
PS send me any addresses of thrift stores you know.
I have flannel sheets, shower curtains, etc...anything big and cotton and cheap....it usually comes home with me.
I am trying hard to beat my addiction...but not succeeding.
Who can pass up 9 yards for $3????? You know you can make something sometime.
Told my Mom cotton prices were going up...her reply"Don't worry you will have enough to sew until you are my age(81)...another 30 years.
Went again today and found beautiful gold tones....$1 for about 3 yards...washing it now and a sheet that was multicolored bright small stripes....king size....$1. ya just can't pass that up.
PS send me any addresses of thrift stores you know.
12-10-2010, 11:47 AM
#59
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Newberg, OR
Posts: 1,911
I have enough fabric to hold me for a while, and it's kind of lost its sheen for the time being. Now, thread, that's a different story. I just bought 11 spools of variegated online last night. As if I needed more thread.
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