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Oh... dear... Hi, my name is Chris and I have 200 yards of fabric stowed and waiting to be made into blankets.
I have a couple huge plastic storage tubs filled. I'm a fabriholic!With special interest in vintage fabrics.
I'm a junkie for anything that catches my eye. My biggest problem is cutting some of them after I buy them. I have red fabric with ink paintings of cats for the pattern. I've had it for 10 years and can't bear to cut it yet.
I'm in the middle of a woven plaid nine patch as a present for the in-laws.
I'm a quilter. Even donated some small wall quilts to an AW auction a few years back.
Every once in a while, when I'm really stuck with my storytelling, I realize it's been a few weeks/months/whatever since I did any quiltmaking, and I'll spend a day playing with fabric, and, bingo!, the next day I'm back writing again.
As to addiction -- I moved a few years ago, and before I packed, I got rid of pretty much all the clutter in my house, so there were maybe a dozen pieces of furniture, a couple boxes of kitchen stuff, a couple boxes of clothes, and TWENTY BIG RUBBERMAID STORAGE BINS of fabric. And textiles are a lot heavier than anyone realizes, especially when they're neatly ironed and folded and stuffed into those bins.
The moving guys couldn't believe that at least half of the stuff they moved was fabric. Me, I thought it was a perfectly reasonable proportion.
I started with squares. Sewed two seams then cut them apart. Sewing on the bias kills me... I'm rough and I always end up stretching the pieces all to hell.