Too Much Fabric?
Early this summer I joined many
other quilters to help a Quilt Shop owner liquidate her shop of fabric and
notions. Her prices were rock bottom and
we all went crazy and emptied our pockets, checkbooks, and credit cards. We stood in lines and called out to each other
asking “how much will you be taking of that green fabric? I’ll take 2
yards”. I filled my closet to bursting
and then filled a box to sit on the floor too.
I have made several items over
the summer using this newly replenished sash but still have enough fabric to
‘win’ the saying of …’the one who dies with the most fabric wins…’
My husband and I just went to
Lancaster, PA for a couple of days. The quilt shops there are wonderful and
very reasonably priced. I usually go
there with a list of what I want to replenish in the sash, new collection set, or
a coordinated for a project. There is so
much fabric there that it is easy to be overwhelmed. I stood among all that beautiful fabric and
couldn’t bring myself to by armfuls of it. I bought 2 pieces to coordinate with
something in my sash and that was all.
I never thought it would happen
that I would go into a quilt shop and not buy – worst yet – not want to buy
fabric. What is the world coming too?!
