TanyaL

I find that hobbies tend to be expensive. Sewing/ quilting is cheaper than traveling which is what we did before we retired.

maddecker

Ido not worry about what i spend on this hob by, I love to do it and I give most of what I make to charity or relatives. I figure since I don't drink , don't run around and am a good person, I deserve to be happy. My husband smokes, drinks lightly, has a snowmobile, a four wheeler and umpteen guns for hunting. What I spend on quilting is insignificant compared to that.

Drue

I don't really think about the cost of making a quilt. If I find a pattern I really like and vision the fabrics to use for it and find them...or something that will work that suits me....then it's a "quilt". I'm sorry, but if you have to think that it's so terribly over priced then maybe you don't value your work as I do mine. I will not cut quality on my quilts with the fabrics. I may change my mind for a lower cost fabric that will still give me the same results, but I don't buy "cheap" fabric. I do end up selling most of mine, but not all. Those I don't sell make very nice gifts (that I'm not ashamed of putting my name on) or even donation quilts ( that I'm not ashamed of putting my name on). I know that the work and the fabric is "quality" stuff!

BellaBoo

No budget and a DH who doesn't care how much fabric I buy. I spent over $300 yesterday at Marshall's and I didn't need any fabric at all but it sure looks good in my stash! I went with three other quilting friends and I spent the least amount. I know my quilting friends out spend me on every shopping trip so really I need to catch up.

GrannieAnnie

Most of mine goes for gifts or for charity. I don't intent to account for it.

thepolyparrot

I'm not on a budget, really - I try not to get too crazy, because what if I don't like making quilts five years from now. But, I confess that I am fanatical about tools and when I walk into a quilt shop, my eyes glaze over and I kind of go into a trance.

We're going to be retired in a few years and on a fixed income, so I try to build my stash "smart" - not many novelties, mostly classic, traditional prints in colors that aren't real trendy. Lots of blenders and neutrals for applique, lots of collections.

I do try to buy on sale and economize to some extent - I shop connectingthreads and fabric.com where the shipping is free, and I shop whittlesfabrics and a couple of my favorite eBay sellers - Quilt Unique and franks11 - where the prices are always so low that the small amount for shipping isn't a big deal.

GrannieAnnie

Goodwill is where I go mostly. Shirts are 2.50 each. The scrap pile is .50/yd. Sheets are a good deal-----$2 for once in a while brand new ones.

GwynR

I don't worry about accounting for it at all. It costs money that's for sure, but so do a lot of other hobbies. I end up with beautiful gifts that all my family loves receiving. That's worth every penny!

nhweaver

For me quilting is cheaper than a psychologist, not frowned upon as much as an alcohol or gambling addiction, and I get tactical satisfaction from touching my fabric, and a smile when I am making a gift for someone. I am worth every piece of fabric, thread, book, machine that I bring home. I shop sales and use coupons, frequent thrift stores, and auctions. When a fabric cries to be brought home, I pay full price. Sometimes I sell from my stash, as I am doing right now. My physical space restricts my stash from growing too large, and this year I am doing the fabric moratorium on QB, with 4 guiltfree passes. I have never totalled up the cost, wouldn't want to, I couldn't put a price on the happiness that quilting brings me.

carolaug

this made me smile..I have a friend that has something done once a week, hair, facial, nails, pedicure, massage, really one or more beauty thing a week oh and lots of clothes and jewerly. I spend about the same on fabric that she does on beauty less than her clothes and jewerly. She thinks I am nuts...I think I am happy.