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From: Bama
Date: 01-01-2007, 05:23 PM (1 of 20)
Well, not really. I couldn't help myself and just bought 84 yards of Christmas fabric at Walmart for 75% off. So much for reducing my stash.  At least Ill be prepared for next year. I grabbed all that was left and said I'll take it all.  The lady in fabrics (who I asked about fabrics closing a while back and she had no idea) told me they just got the news. The fabric department here will close in April. She said there's alot of angry sewers around here now. She's been hearing it all day. On a good note, she said one of her regular customers was in today with her husband and said she had always wanted to open a fabric store so now might be the time. There's nothing else here in the way of fabrics for at least 25 miles. I hope she does! |
User: Bama
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From: Pudge99
Date: 01-01-2007, 05:29 PM (2 of 20)
OH you are soooo bad. 84 yds!!!! Yikes!!!! My WalMart didn't have any great prints this year otherwise I would be the same way.
Gina
Pictures of my successes and failures Pfaff 2040 Janome Mylock 134D Singer Futura CE-100 w/ Autopunch Husqvarna Viking 3D Sketch |
User: Pudge99
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 01-01-2007, 07:50 PM (3 of 20)
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Bama...your 84 yds makes my boxing day purchases at my LQS seem like FQs. Happy sewing for Christmas 2007!!!
TTFN from
Judy |
User: HeyJudee
Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 1366 
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From: lendube
Date: 01-01-2007, 09:55 PM (4 of 20)
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You're not bad. You're just a sensible shopper! Congrats......... Lennie
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User: lendube
Member since: 08-06-2006 Total posts: 1548 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 01-01-2007, 11:15 PM (5 of 20)
You aren't bad...you're just drawn that way... 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 01-02-2007, 05:57 AM (6 of 20)
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Bama and I thought I was a fabriholic. I used up a lot of my stash making pillowcases for the kids for Christmas. I made close to 30 pillowcases for the kids on my list with their names on the cases and they loved them. Now I have to start collecting more. My neighbor came over and made me go through my stash and clean it out. I was going to buy more fabric for the cases and she helped me cordinate the fabric I had and I must say they came out cute. I still have boxes and boxes of fabric. Maybe now I can start all those quilts I bought most of the fabric for.
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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User: MotherInLaw
Member since: 06-25-2005 Total posts: 1118 
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From: Rea
Date: 01-02-2007, 07:34 PM (7 of 20)
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I hate shopping at Walmart so much, I never see their fabric department anymore. We have a local fabric store here, with any kind of fabric and notion you could ever want. It is discount, so the prices are really good except on polar fleece, have to wait for a sale for that.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
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User: Rea
Member since: 12-19-2005 Total posts: 47 
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From: Bama
Date: 01-03-2007, 09:55 PM (8 of 20)
I stopped in to buy cat food and just happened to spot some 60" bolts that I missed the other day.  I got 14 more yards. In my defense, these do not look "Christmasy". They are Holiday fabrics but in purples, blues, and green with mauve. And 75% off. They had stack-n-whack written all over them so I had to get them. DD's room is blue and purple anyway. Adding that to the 2 yards I got at Hancock's today, I've added 100 yards to my stash since Christmas. And spent less than 65 dollars. Did I mention I still had some Christmas money left?What is wrong with me????????? I have a problem here. 
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User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116
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From: Bama
Date: 01-03-2007, 09:57 PM (9 of 20)
| And I forgot about the reds that came in the mail today. At least I'm going to start using them right away for the red and white block swap. |
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 01-03-2007, 10:38 PM (10 of 20)
I know the feeling Bama, But if I get more fabric I'll have to build another room to store it in. Sandra Betzina told us at one of the conferences I went to that she never buys fabric unless she uses it right then. No stash in her house. Her father taught her that as a child. Her life must be really boring I have to say. LOL Nahhhh but I bet she doesn't do any spur of the moment sewing like us. What a shame!
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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User: MotherInLaw
Member since: 06-25-2005 Total posts: 1118
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From: HeyJudee
Date: 01-04-2007, 07:32 AM (11 of 20)
Bama...guess you need to join "fabricaholics" anonymous! LOL Maybe I will meet you there! 
TTFN from
Judy |
User: HeyJudee
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From: Patty22
Date: 01-04-2007, 08:03 AM (12 of 20)
BAMA.....all I have to say is "YOU GO GIRL!"
Patty
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User: Patty22
Member since: 03-29-2006 Total posts: 1194 |
From: JustSewCrafty
Date: 01-11-2007, 05:14 PM (13 of 20)
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Well...if you're going to be bad, that my friend is the way to do it!
May your bobbin always be full-
Stephanie www.chasingthreads.blogspot.com "Sewing is the new black" |
User: JustSewCrafty
Member since: 10-04-2006 Total posts: 168 |
From: Bama
Date: 01-11-2007, 07:49 PM (14 of 20)
I thought it was kind of a good way to be bad too.  I went to another store last weekend and grabbed up some more prints. I should have enough Christmas prints for quite a while. |
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116
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From: swartzrn
Date: 01-13-2007, 09:35 PM (15 of 20)
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It is quite alright to be "fabricaholics" ..that's why there are support groups like this for all of us!!!
Julie
"To see the future, look into a child's eyes." |
User: swartzrn
Member since: 02-17-2006 Total posts: 436 
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From: PaulineG
Date: 01-13-2007, 11:21 PM (16 of 20)
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This is a support group ...? Drat it's not working. I've bought more than ever recently. Not quite in the same league as Bama though.
Pauline
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User: PaulineG
Member since: 09-08-2006 Total posts: 901 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 01-14-2007, 10:20 AM (17 of 20)
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I like to think of collecting the materials used for an art and a passion as a virtue. Maybe the only real virtue I have since I try to avoid the commonly accepted ones!! Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: swartzrn
Date: 01-14-2007, 10:08 PM (18 of 20)
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Sure it's a support group--we support each other in our quest to collect the most fabric. I always heard the saying "she who dies with the most fabric wins!!"
Julie
"To see the future, look into a child's eyes." |
User: swartzrn
Member since: 02-17-2006 Total posts: 436
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From: PaulineG
Date: 01-14-2007, 10:18 PM (19 of 20)
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And how does she go - her husband shoots her.
Pauline
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User: PaulineG
Member since: 09-08-2006 Total posts: 901 |
From: swartzrn
Date: 01-16-2007, 08:57 AM (20 of 20)
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Nah--too bloody and would probably stain the fabric (because you know she was sewing.)
Julie
"To see the future, look into a child's eyes." |
User: swartzrn
Member since: 02-17-2006 Total posts: 436
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