peaceandjoy

I'd have to say my purchases vary widely, but probably average out to about $100/mo. :lol:

Yikes, 1,000 yds in 10 months? :shock: That makes me look like a very small time buyer, lol. Yes, the shopping is often so much easier (and faster) than the quilting.

Dojo36 - so glad for you and your loved ones that you have quit smoking. You're almost at your 1 year anniversary, that is great! :D Your money is definitely better spent on fabrics.

Although I don't know where Beverly's is, I think I've purchased that very same thread! Last week I went into LQS to get two 1/2 yard cuts of fabric. My total was over $100. :roll: At least I remembered those original two that I needed. And I have already used the pattern (The Market Tote, by Country Quilter), two yards of fabric, and Decor-Bond.

While I don't like shopping for anything else, quilting things - from magazines to patterns, thread to fabric - I LOVE! We have several great shops w/in an hour's drive, plus I have a couple of online favorites.... We all need to do what we can to stimulate the economy, right? :wink:

tlrnhi

It all depends on the mood I'm in. Sometimes it can be $20, other times it can be $200. Plus, it also depends if the fabric is on sale.

quiltswithdogs

You don't want me on this post.
With our financial hardship, I haven't bought anything at all related to quilting since maybe last Spring. I am working completely out of my stash. The fabrics my physical therapist recently gave me are what I'm using for my 09 BOM. My sister gave me a subscription of Pons&Porter mag but that ended. My daughter gave me one month issue of another quilting mag as part of my birthday present. I hate this!
So what I have been spending per month is ...
$0

Cookn

It varies widely from month to month. Some months it could be zero others it might be hundreds. It's like the changing tides it ebbs and flows. This month would be off the charts because this longarm followed us home, next month will be a low month because we'll be traveling. But there is this one fabric store where we'll be that is usually good for a couple of hundred.

k3n

Depends who you ask - I reckon on average 100 - 150 euros (some months hardly anything but then last month I spent 300 UK pounds on a grace hoop, and two new feet for the sewing machine, and a couple of months ago I spent 200 euro in one day at a fabric fair in Holland!). BUT DH is sitting by me and HE reckons it's at least 150-200 per month - so take your pick, who do you believe? :D

K x

sandpat

K...I'm thinking Hans is right, but then again...who's counting???? :roll:

Justquilting

All depends on the mood....depends on my project.
Even if I want to just use stash..I still need something else.
So I try not to count..LOL
DH would probably say too much.
But he'd have a smile on his face. :lol:

Maride

Since DH lost his job I only buy when I sell a quilt or when I get a request of something I don't already have and when I get paid I recover it. When DH was working I would just go to my local shop to browse and come out with something way too often, but we could afford it.

Last month I quilted a queen size hand appliqued top for our church and I didn't charge them because it was to be raffled for charity and they sent me a $40.00 gift certificate to my local shop. I don't need to say that I spent it the same day.

To top it, yesterday, on Mother's Day, DH and the kids gave me a gift certificate to JC Penney. DH is probably the favorite male customer at the local quilt shop because when he goes there he spends. He has his own discount card and everything. I asked him how come he didn't get me fabric as usual, since I was expecting it, and he said that he forgot the last time I got any clothes for myself and now I have to go get some (he is kind of right)

I WANT TO GO FABRIC SHOPPING!!!

Maria

mary quite contrary

I am sooo glad to hear I'm not the only one. My family has to make me shop for clothes. Fabric shopping? NO PROBLEM!!!!!

pittsburgpam

Like everyone else, it depends. I didn't have much of a stash at all and I recently got my sewing room back after 2 years of giving it up for my grandson. I spent way too much, probably $400 per month, buying large lots on eBay, several collections that I loved, etc.

I also got a Grace frame, a new Viking, and a Go! Cutter. I don't need any equipment now (uh huh) and I'd have to re-organize for more fabric room. I have only spent about $100 the last month on other stuff and I expect that $100 to $200 will probably be my norm.