Teresa 54

Well, I had the same problem when I had to move my studio, bags and bags of fabric - heavy fabric. I decided at that point I needed to scale down. Like you, I buy good quality quilt weight fabric from quilt shops. I thought about "how do I buy fabric"? I buy by the color, not by the design, which made it so much easier to use what I have. All fabric is on open shelves (3) huge bakers racks, where I can easily see and access each piece, it is arranged by color. By arranging this way, I found I will use what I have instead of going out shopping. Look at it this way, the less time shopping, the more time you have to sew.
Join a stash busters class at your local shop - great way to use fabric. Teach a class and have fabric packets for the students for a few dollars. One day I screwed up a drafted pattern, I apologized and gave everyone a yard of fabric from my stash!
keep a tally of all the money you don't spend and go to a quilt camp with fabric from your stash - A Challange. Good Luck, Teresa-Teresa's Quilt Studio

Kimcatlou

I don't only have a problem with too much fabric, but also too many craft supplies, and also too many books. And my husband and I are getting ready to move into a retirement home.

Do you think there might be some long life pills? I might be able to use most of my stuff if I had 100 more years!
I am really working hard at gathering stuff to give away, but then I think that I just might want to make something with much of it!

Bebe

OmaForFour

I don't think there is a thing wrong with you. You have a healthy hobby of collecting fabrics. Can you please tell me what LQS stands for?

dsj

I so know the feeling, It is the most contagious case of beautiful cloth fever ever and it doesn't go away, I have had it for several years now. It gets worse when there is a quilt show around. I can't even get down the first isle before I start getting light headed, upset stomach, can't think straight symptoms. So I head for the food area to gather myself, drink some coffee, eat some chocolate, (it seems to calm me)then I'm okay and I can finish the day strong and broke. I just ask, How can they continue to make beautiful fabric?

Jingle

LQS - Local Quilt Shop -- I am still waiting to hear what your problem is, I haven't heard a thing yet that sounds like a problem. Please explain...

dsj

oh yeah, I forgot to say because it is so beautiful I haven't used one piece of it that I have bought from the quilt shows or stores. I just sit and look at it. I am to scared to cut it up. I need to buy ugly fabric. That might be the cure.

dsj

I guess we are all normal then, I really don't feel like I have a problem, I do love it after all. I'm normal Yippee!!!!!

KarenBarnes

I say just relax and enjoy it! :)

PamQuilts

Jan, I so the same thing. I've been going through my scraps for a couple of months now. I just finished a quilt using some of them but it doesn't even look like I made a dent. Some of my fabric is really pretty. But, like you, I look at some of them & think, What posessed you to buy this one? I keep thinking I'll do better, not buy so much. But, I've been thinking that for the last 20 years! Oh well. I have to go to Houston today. I'm sure I'll stop by a fabric store...I'm a hopeless case! :)

SSTeacher

I think that it is positively marvelous that we ALL have the same symptoms of a disease that seems to enhance our life. Think of it this way, if we stopped BUYING fabric, quilt shops would have to close their doors and we certainly would not want THAT to happen. The more scraps, the more quilts we have made. Scraps make great quilts and smaller projects. My problem continues to be "organizing" them but I have started, I have started, I have started......