If you couldn't buy anymore------
04-11-2010, 12:54 PM
#41
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We would be set for 3 or 4 years fabric-wise. We have plenty of patterns and can always find free ones on the internet. I just placed a big order with Connecting Threads, so we have thread that we could use for piecing and quilting. I think we'd be short on batting. If I could figure out a way to weave cat hair into batting I'd be set for life! Hey! Why is this quilt wiggling in the middle?!
Darren
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04-11-2010, 01:18 PM
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I'd find a way to keep going. I only have enough fabric for maybe two king-sized quilts, but I'd start getting creative. Curtains, clothes, shower curtains, sheets, upholstery,... who REALLY needs those anyway?! :)
04-11-2010, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by wesing
We would be set for 3 or 4 years fabric-wise. We have plenty of patterns and can always find free ones on the internet. I just placed a big order with Connecting Threads, so we have thread that we could use for piecing and quilting. I think we'd be short on batting. If I could figure out a way to weave cat hair into batting I'd be set for life! Hey! Why is this quilt wiggling in the middle?!
Darren
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04-11-2010, 01:37 PM
#44
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Well since I have never went and bought new fabric at a store
since quilting I would keep using used clothing and used blankets and sheets for backing , my only problem would be thread I have bought some and had some given to me by my daughter's mother in-law, maybe I'd try useing fishing line if i run out of thread..lol..it would work even if you had to hand stich it in right.. ;) My stash isn't every large as large goes, but with the fabric I do have I could put together more then a few quilts I think. :lol:
since quilting I would keep using used clothing and used blankets and sheets for backing , my only problem would be thread I have bought some and had some given to me by my daughter's mother in-law, maybe I'd try useing fishing line if i run out of thread..lol..it would work even if you had to hand stich it in right.. ;) My stash isn't every large as large goes, but with the fabric I do have I could put together more then a few quilts I think. :lol:
04-11-2010, 05:13 PM
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Tossing fabric? My mom died leaving me her whole sewing room! I have triple the fabric now! I hope to use up everything! Hopefully I have at least 30 something yrs to go!!!! Have enough scissors to last forever!
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Originally Posted by lindy
Hold on while I regain my balance and digest the 'can't buy any more fabric' idea! My kids will be (gulp) tossing fabric when I die, unless I live another 60 years and really don't buy any more.
04-11-2010, 05:20 PM
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I have no idea how long I could go or how many quilts I could make. I don't have any large pieces of fabric, mostly fat quarters, but lot's of them. I usually have to buy a background fabric, or sashing, and always backing, even if I don't buy new "main" fabrics. I also don't have any batting, except a couple of small pieces. I never have bought alot of patterns or notions, I can usually make do, and I like to create my own patterns. I have 5 rotary blades, and that is the most I have ever had at one time.
04-11-2010, 06:53 PM
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I could make enough quilts to last my lifetime and a few others, plenty of patterns, thread, batting, and still I feel the need to go shopping. What's wrong with that? I went shopping in my closet while my DD was here from IN. to visit and a small tote fell down and hit me in the forehead and now I have a black eye,lol! My DH says it's time to start using up my stash, but what he doesn't know won't hurt him unless I die before he does and he has to clean out my sewing room!!
04-12-2010, 02:23 AM
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Well, although they might have some very "interesting" color combinations towards the end, I could probably make... 50? Okay, maybe 75. But no more, as I would have to be carefully unravelling for thread to use, lol.
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