Has your taste in fabric changed over the years?
07-02-2011, 05:08 AM
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I have only been collecting fabric for a couple years now. I was buying 1930's like crazy and now I want retro and farm fabrics. LOL! I will probably keep most everything because like fashion, it will come back in "style" and I will want it again. LOL!!!
07-02-2011, 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by CAJAMK
I have been collecting fabric for years and I have found it has changed. I used to love calicos & country types of fabric. Now I find myself liking solids, batiks, etc.
I still plan to keep some of the older stuff but get rid of alot. How about you?
I still plan to keep some of the older stuff but get rid of alot. How about you?
07-02-2011, 07:24 AM
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My taste seems to change with the seasons. LOL I have gone through many phases. Purples are always a favorite but looking at my stash, I also apparently like pinks and greens. My latest fad has certainly been paisleys. Wow, I can't get enough.
07-02-2011, 08:05 AM
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Its not so much my taste that has changed but rather what kind of fabrics I buy now. The fabrics I have now I would have found attractive when I started quilting, but would probably have not bought because I would be afraid to use them. I started off using a lot of true solids.
07-02-2011, 10:09 AM
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[quote=feline fanatic]Most definitely. Like the others, when I first started I loved calico's and country colors. Now batiks take center stage in my stash and I am in an Asian phase now.
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Me too. In fact, I'm getting tired of my clothing styles, and found a book with some simple patterns indirectly from the 1960/70s designer Charles Blackburn, with no darts or gathers. Easy styles that fall from the shoulders like the 1930s styles did. Since my own figure has changed over the years, these might be just the thing for me.
And the inevitable left over scraps will be lovely in doll quilts and crazy quilts and wall hangings.
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Me too. In fact, I'm getting tired of my clothing styles, and found a book with some simple patterns indirectly from the 1960/70s designer Charles Blackburn, with no darts or gathers. Easy styles that fall from the shoulders like the 1930s styles did. Since my own figure has changed over the years, these might be just the thing for me.
And the inevitable left over scraps will be lovely in doll quilts and crazy quilts and wall hangings.
07-02-2011, 02:59 PM
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Have they ever? I find myself buying 30's prints and feedsack prints like crazy. And only 12 yrs ago I was cleaning those actual fabrics from my parents house (they died 4 mos apart) and trying to find someone to take it.
07-03-2011, 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Most definitely. Like the others, when I first started I loved calico's and country colors. Now batiks take center stage in my stash and I am in an Asian phase now. I still have some of my old calicos but I got rid of a lot. I kept a few that I thought would look good in scrappy quilts or that I had enough coordinating fabric to go with for a project.
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