Are you a FABRIC JUNKIE???
09-29-2011, 03:56 AM
#71
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Southern California
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Originally Posted by leatheflea
Yep mee too! I like to just look at fabrics, touch em. But I've learned the hard lesson that I cant have them all. I wish I could understand the need that I have to sew up so many quilts with no place for them to go.
i have tried to keep my expressions to certain sizes...the sizes the hospitals around here preferr.
09-29-2011, 04:34 AM
#73
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 168
Yes I am. Went to Hancock Fabrics on Monday, just to pick up a couple of yards of a white on white fabric I need to finish a quilt. Also needed some crewel thread. There was a sale going on. Came out with more than just the white I went in for. Went back on Tuesday to get some more of the sale fabric. Guess what? Both times I forgot the crewel thread. So, yes, I am a fabric junkie.
09-29-2011, 04:55 AM
#74
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Uniontown, Ohio
Posts: 535
Not only a fabric junkie turning into a sewing machine junkie. 2 vikings, 1 serger, 1 singer treadle, 1 singer from 1937 that I didn't think to look for the cords, and now I found a featherweight for 275.00 with all the bells and whistles, what to do, what to do
09-29-2011, 05:03 AM
#75
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Orfordville, WI
Posts: 363
I have been a fabric junkie since I was 5 years old and my grandmother allowed me to play in her stash scraps. She was a seamstress in a coat factory. The fabrics she brought home (all throwaway scraps) were wonderful. All colors and fabrics. The textures were what first attracted me (as well as the colors). I slept under many a wonderful scrappy quilt made by her. Wool was the #1 fabric but there were velvets and satins (lining) and leather. The whole family had coats and quilts from grandma's loving hands. I wish the quilts had lasted through the years. After many cleanings (outside with the cornmeal and a soft brush), and years in the cedar chest, the quilts had to be thrown away. I do still have my other grandma's hand made quilt though. It is cotton and needs repair, but I have managed to save it.
09-29-2011, 05:41 AM
#79
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 453
What fun to read all these comments - and how reassuring to know that I'm not the only one here with this ( do we even call it a problem???). I don't spend so much in fabric stores - but love to garage sale/Craigslist and find fabric on sale.
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