If you have to find a new place for fabric because all your shelves in your sewing room are full.
Georgetown, CA I'd Rather Be Quilting
if you have three sewing machines- 1 for everyday, 1 for backup and 1 for extra backup.
if you're sitting in a waiting room and notice a thread from last nights project stuck to your shirt.
you have more storage totes than the container store.
If you use zip lock freezer bags for projects, not freezing
if you have more fabric selection in your closet than Wal Mart does.
If you have more spools of thread than walmart does (and you've contemplated on stealing their display case)
if your husband knows who Connecting threads, Keepsake Quilting and Fons & Porter are.
If your printed patterns from www.quilterscache.com everywhere you look.
If you have containers labeled... FQ, Skinny 8ths, Large scraps, small scraps, strings, 2 inch, 3 inch, 4 inch, 5 inch 6 inch.
if you have 6 pairs of scissors for 6 different things.
if your design wall has become the rooms focal point.
LOL I could go on and on and on :/ Good thread!
~♥~ PEACE- LOVE- PATCHWORK ~♥~
Jackson Co. Ohio
If you have to find a place to hide the 25 yards of batting you bought so your DH doesn't know it's in the house. (He still doesn't.)
If you get weird stares from others when you fondle/pet fabric.
If you cut fabric into little pieces just to sew it back together again!
If your husband has resigned himself to spending time alone on every vacation while his wife is quilting with the other retreaters.
If your Amazon.com homepage automatically comes up to quilting books.
If a new quilting magazine arrives at your house every other week (in spite of most of them only being published 6x a year).
If you keep a supply of plain brown bags in the car to smuggle your quilt store purchases into the house.
If stray bits of thread find their way into every room of the house.
If your normally hyperactive dog instantly lays down for a nap when she sees you enter your sewing room.
If you start paying cash at the LQS so your hubby can't track your quilt purchases on the credit card statement.
If you understand acronyms LQS, DSM, FMQ, SID, EQ7, WOF, and the like.
On the banks of the Mississippi River in north central Minnesota (Brainerd lakes area)
If your family know not to use your fabric scissors to cut open a parcel thats just arrived.
If everything you think of buying you equate to how much fabric that will pay for.
lots of love
Francesxx
you have more than one not perfect quilts made.
Quilting My Rainbow
you have more fabric than you could ever possibly use in your life time.
And if over half of that fabric is saved for a specific quilt, so it is off limits for other projects.
If you have designated in your will, the beneficiary of your stash.
If you lay in bed contemplating quilt number 30, when you are still working on number 5.
Patti
Chiliwist Valley
If you will drop a bundle of money at the LQS without a blink of the eye but walk away from a pair of pants that you love but aren't willing to pay the price....
If your DH plans weekend trips around where the quilt shops are
When your DH knows that if you go into a quilt shop that he might as well find a chair and get comfortable
If your DH starts bringing you fabrics he thinks you will like
If your DH will stand in the cutting line so that you can continue shopping
Vinton, Virginia
If you want to go shopping or browse on-line for quilt fabric on any day, but only shop for clothing for oneself when need to or for a special occasion.
If you are making a homemade pasta sauce, and you say out loud I need a 1/4 inch of garlic instead of teaspoon.
If you study son's girlfriend and wonder if they might be a quilter someday so that she can inherit your machines and fabric stash, since you don't have a daughter.
I can so relate to everyones' comments on this post! I laughed many times!!
Nana: If you will drop a bundle of money at the LQS without a blink of the eye but walk away from a pair of pants that you love but aren't willing to pay the price.... If your DH plans weekend trips around where the quilt shops are When your DH knows that if you go into a quilt shop that he might as well find a chair and get comfortable If your DH starts bringing you fabrics he thinks you will like If your DH will stand in the cutting line so that you can continue shopping
Nana,
Perhaps you need to start a new thread how do you know if you have a true quilters husband/wife.
chocake2:You have 15 shades of red in your stash and not one of them will work in your current project.