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05-01-2010, 11:13 AM
#22
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Location: Southeast Ohio
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Originally Posted by ReRe
12 Step Program for Cutting Fat Quarters:
Step 1: Look at fat quarters and break into tears
Step 2: Look at scissors and break into more tears
Step 3: Go get stiff cold drink of milk or soda ... no booze allowed near precious young fat quarters
Step 4: Actually pick up scissors and move towards table with fat quarters
Step 5: Lay scissors down on table and break into tears again
Step 6: Pick up fat quarter, apologize profuzely for what you are about to do to it and break into even more tears
Step 7: Pick up scissors and gently cut first cut into fat quarters and start wailing uncontrollably at the act of cutting the precious fat quarter
Step 8: Put the cold milk away and get out the bottle of Jack Danials to take care of the head ache caused by all the tears
Step 9: Drink a couple shots of Jack Danials and give yourself a peptalk about how you are stronger than the fat quarters and how you can cut them to make a larger covering. You just have to talk to the fat quarter.
Step 10: Have another couple shots of Jack Danials and have a little talk with the fat quarter about why you have to cut it up
Step 11: Carefully cut up all your fat quarters for this project inbetween shots of Jack Danials.
Step 12: Wake up with hangover and wish those danged fat quarters would quit crying
Step 1: Look at fat quarters and break into tears
Step 2: Look at scissors and break into more tears
Step 3: Go get stiff cold drink of milk or soda ... no booze allowed near precious young fat quarters
Step 4: Actually pick up scissors and move towards table with fat quarters
Step 5: Lay scissors down on table and break into tears again
Step 6: Pick up fat quarter, apologize profuzely for what you are about to do to it and break into even more tears
Step 7: Pick up scissors and gently cut first cut into fat quarters and start wailing uncontrollably at the act of cutting the precious fat quarter
Step 8: Put the cold milk away and get out the bottle of Jack Danials to take care of the head ache caused by all the tears
Step 9: Drink a couple shots of Jack Danials and give yourself a peptalk about how you are stronger than the fat quarters and how you can cut them to make a larger covering. You just have to talk to the fat quarter.
Step 10: Have another couple shots of Jack Danials and have a little talk with the fat quarter about why you have to cut it up
Step 11: Carefully cut up all your fat quarters for this project inbetween shots of Jack Danials.
Step 12: Wake up with hangover and wish those danged fat quarters would quit crying
05-01-2010, 01:35 PM
#23
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Georgia
Posts: 3,563
I can't even buy FQ, I have fear what will I do with it? Is there enough? what will go with it. So i buy at lease 1 yard. Then I second guess myself on that, what if or do I need more. So lately I have made myself buy only 1/2 yards. Is there hope for me. I still have not used the 1/2 yards. :shock:
05-01-2010, 06:00 PM
#25
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 83
We do have Jack Daniels down here (TGFT) and that's definitely worth a try!
I might find the solution to why I keep FQs for years, but still won't cut them for a quilt in case I need them in the future.
LOL.
I might find the solution to why I keep FQs for years, but still won't cut them for a quilt in case I need them in the future.
LOL.
05-01-2010, 06:22 PM
#26
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Home town: Rehoboth, MA Now living in OK
Posts: 7,774
Originally Posted by ReRe
12 Step Program for Cutting Fat Quarters:
Step 1: Look at fat quarters and break into tears
Step 2: Look at scissors and break into more tears
Step 3: Go get stiff cold drink of milk or soda ... no booze allowed near precious young fat quarters
Step 4: Actually pick up scissors and move towards table with fat quarters
Step 5: Lay scissors down on table and break into tears again
Step 6: Pick up fat quarter, apologize profuzely for what you are about to do to it and break into even more tears
Step 7: Pick up scissors and gently cut first cut into fat quarters and start wailing uncontrollably at the act of cutting the precious fat quarter
Step 8: Put the cold milk away and get out the bottle of Jack Danials to take care of the head ache caused by all the tears
Step 9: Drink a couple shots of Jack Danials and give yourself a peptalk about how you are stronger than the fat quarters and how you can cut them to make a larger covering. You just have to talk to the fat quarter.
Step 10: Have another couple shots of Jack Danials and have a little talk with the fat quarter about why you have to cut it up
Step 11: Carefully cut up all your fat quarters for this project inbetween shots of Jack Danials.
Step 12: Wake up with hangover and wish those danged fat quarters would quit crying
Step 1: Look at fat quarters and break into tears
Step 2: Look at scissors and break into more tears
Step 3: Go get stiff cold drink of milk or soda ... no booze allowed near precious young fat quarters
Step 4: Actually pick up scissors and move towards table with fat quarters
Step 5: Lay scissors down on table and break into tears again
Step 6: Pick up fat quarter, apologize profuzely for what you are about to do to it and break into even more tears
Step 7: Pick up scissors and gently cut first cut into fat quarters and start wailing uncontrollably at the act of cutting the precious fat quarter
Step 8: Put the cold milk away and get out the bottle of Jack Danials to take care of the head ache caused by all the tears
Step 9: Drink a couple shots of Jack Danials and give yourself a peptalk about how you are stronger than the fat quarters and how you can cut them to make a larger covering. You just have to talk to the fat quarter.
Step 10: Have another couple shots of Jack Danials and have a little talk with the fat quarter about why you have to cut it up
Step 11: Carefully cut up all your fat quarters for this project inbetween shots of Jack Danials.
Step 12: Wake up with hangover and wish those danged fat quarters would quit crying
05-01-2010, 06:26 PM
#27
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 15,639
Originally Posted by ninas3kids
I am terrified of fat quarters!!! I have 3 wallhangings planned for Mother's Day for my girls but I am afraid to cut the fat quarters! Guess thats why I buy at least a yard of fabric at a time. Is there a 12 step program??
05-01-2010, 07:57 PM
#28
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: TX
Posts: 1,243
Well see, I do that, buy a FQ or more likely several that go together, and then put them with my other FQs so neat and pretty, all arranged and grouped, and then go cut my older scraps and yardages. It seems that FQs are for collecting, not actually making things out of - why, you'd have to CUT one to make something from it!! What's that all about eh.
I'm like that big floppy dumb dog character in, I think, one of the Bugs Bunny cartoons, or maybe it was Baby Huey: when someone asks me what I'm going to do with all those squares of fabric, I say "I'm going to squeeze them, and pat them, and call them George."
I'm like that big floppy dumb dog character in, I think, one of the Bugs Bunny cartoons, or maybe it was Baby Huey: when someone asks me what I'm going to do with all those squares of fabric, I say "I'm going to squeeze them, and pat them, and call them George."
05-02-2010, 02:57 AM
#30
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 235
My fat quarters are my babies, I love them. I can easily cut into yardage, but cut into my FQ's, NEVER!!!! If I had to choose between them and my husband, weeeelllll, um, the jurys still out on that one, ha, ha.
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