Where do you head first when...
05-04-2010, 10:00 PM
#41
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Any store I go into, for some reason I start on the left and work my way around. That way I don't back-track and waste time. Even if I know exactly what I want, getting there is half the fun. I alway's check out the clearance rack, notions (for anything new), and alway's the sales if any.
05-04-2010, 10:10 PM
#42
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I enter, get a cart, push to calicos and then the new fabrics and then the notions and then the thread section and ponder over if I will need more or different colors. All and all, I am in there two hours at the least!
05-04-2010, 10:32 PM
#43
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Sale tables first, then whatever my newest interest was. For a while, I was collecting florals, then homespuns, then it was purples, then greens, then civil war fabrics, then blacks, then golds and yellows, then large prints, etc. But now, it's strictly on a need to use basis. I'm only buying fabric if I absolutely need it for a project that I'm working on, if I can't make do with something from my stash. My stash is so huge, and I'll never use it all, so I decided that I should quilt buying arbitrarily just to make my stash bigger. I miss it though!
05-05-2010, 02:32 AM
#44
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I wish we had a Joann's. We have Hancocks and Hobby Lobby
Both of them are expensive and not much on sale. Hancocks usually has a sale going mostly on uphostlery fabric. Their aisles are so crowded one can hardly shop.
I usually look at sale materials first then batting etc.
Both of them are expensive and not much on sale. Hancocks usually has a sale going mostly on uphostlery fabric. Their aisles are so crowded one can hardly shop.
I usually look at sale materials first then batting etc.
05-05-2010, 03:14 AM
#46
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I head for the "on sale" fabric. I have this idea that there will be an onslaught of quilters grabbing every bolt on the shelves and there will be nothing but one ugly bolt left for me. So I always gravitate to the sale of cotton fabrics. Edie
05-05-2010, 04:29 AM
#47
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I have my LQS owner and friend well trained. She calls and tells me a new brown truck delivery has been done.lol. I do scenes and old barns, she and the girls that work there. will say oh Jo wont this make a good tree trunk or Hey Jo doent this look like snow ? Of course it does and then I have to have a yard or this and half a yard of that. Who did I say was well trained? lol Jolo
05-05-2010, 04:34 AM
#48
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Batiks like most of you, then the fabric. They usually have new lines in the middle so give that a glance as I go by. then the notions and books which are right there together. Convenient of them isn't it? lol. We all seem to go for the beauty before the daily.ll
05-05-2010, 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted by clem55
Billy, was your house on the rise okay?
Billy
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