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| Clare |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 7:38:33 PM
I think I have a serious "problem" girls.
I cannot walk away from most of these items at the thrift store. I usually only go once a week, but as a treat to myself tonight, I allowed myself to stop on the way home from work.
Here's what I picked up tonight: 16 yards of mainly cotton material; 10 cotton napkins, 5 match, 2 match and 3 match all in plaids; 6 new knitted potholders, and 56 crocheted granny squares that were in a 25 cent bargin bin, spread hither and yon. Took me 15 minutes to dig them all out and I was charged 50 cents for the lot of them. Now all that has to be done is join them up. I just have visions of how all these things were meant to be used, especially all those granny squares. Some wonderful woman put alot of work into them... and I think it would be an honor to finish it for her.
Although I didn't get any tonight, I also can't seem to pass up some of the rustic type placemats... those that are woven especially appeal to me.
Is there a remedy to this situation or should I just allow it to "live"? It's not like I'm gathering these things up or hoarding them without any intentions to use them, because I truly do intend to... BUT, (thank goodness) I don't have a spouse, because I know I'd be catching flack for all this "gathering up" I've been doing!! 
And, if any of you are also afflicted with this condition, please join in, pipe right up and confess. Misery loves company, or maybe it's bliss loves company??!!! 
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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| AnnieT |
Posted - Nov 02 2005 : 11:25:22 AM
Oh, how I wish I had a fabric store here. I have two little quiltshops and walmart, but no place to go for garment fabric or notions. I do all of my shopping on line. |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Nov 01 2005 : 10:28:53 PM
You girls are SO funny..I love you all! |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Nov 01 2005 : 8:05:52 PM
Good excuse Jenny!! We can always use our kids as an excuse to go buy fabric! And Mona could probably use something new too.
The little fabric store that is so close to me isn't a traditional quilt store. But they carry lots of great fabric and have TONS of flat folds. It's a good thing I went with limited funds today and no debit card. I'd have been in real trouble.
http://rusticcottage.blogspot.com/ |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Nov 01 2005 : 6:15:00 PM
I am so dying to go to a good fabric store..means a trip to Provo..I havn't been shopping for fabric for awhile. I want to get fabric to make Christmas outfits for the kids..yeah, thats it..thats the ticket!!
Jenny in Utah
Put all your eggs in one basket..and then watch that basket!! Mark Twain |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Nov 01 2005 : 4:20:48 PM
I went to the fabric store today to get 2 yards of fabric to make an apron for my mother-in-law's birthday. YEAH RIGHT!! I started going through the flat fold tables at $3.99 and $2.99 a yard, hyperventilating the whole time. It wouldn't have been so bad except I kept seeing fabric that I have previously paid $9 a yard now in the flat folds. Needless to say -- I ended up with way more than 2 yards of fabric but sure got some cute stuff for charm squares!!!!
http://rusticcottage.blogspot.com/ |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 12:55:03 PM
It's a date!! Woo hoo, would that be fun!!
Happy Wishes! |
| thehouseminder |
Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 11:28:00 AM
Patricia, I can use all the mothering I can get OR we can just shop together
If any of you do ever come to NE, you will have to let me know. I'll point you to the target rich areas (or maybe drive you there and make a pest of myself).
Lucinda
When we were young, there were moments of such perfectly crystallized happiness that we stood stock still and silently promised ourselves that we would remember them always. And we did. --Holly J. Burkhalter , "Four Midwestern Sisters' Christmas Book"
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Oct 23 2005 : 2:56:39 PM
I'm coming to Nebraska to hunt for treasures!! You did good!
GO WHITE SOX!!!!
http://rusticcottage.blogspot.com/ |
| quiltedess |
Posted - Oct 23 2005 : 09:37:57 AM
Lucinda, WOW!
Nancy
http://quiltedprairie.blogspot.com/ |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Oct 23 2005 : 09:17:31 AM
LUCINDA HITS NEBRASKA FABRIC/TREASURE PAYDIRT!!!! WOW girl...You get the junking/hunter-gatherer award for the month of October and maybe the rest of the year! I am going to have to plan a trip up north Lucinda! You and your Mom did an awesome job! Bottle trees! 1930's Christmas swag! Treadle Machine! Feedsack material!I am in awe...
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 23 2005 : 08:34:36 AM
oooooh....Lucinda, can I be your honorary Mom?
Happy Wishes! |
| thehouseminder |
Posted - Oct 23 2005 : 07:34:52 AM
Oh Diane, I will definitely have to use that idea! Will share it with my mom too.
Speaking of Mom. Yesterday was her 67th Birthday. We always go junking/antiquing together on her birthday.
This year we got up early and went to spend the day in Fremont, Nebraska. What a wonderful time we had! Fremont is a small, but wonderful, frontier city which has maintained it's downtown streets and buildings. There are 15 antique/fleamarket stores there, along with two quilt shops, and various other charming, locally owned businesses. Interestingly, the Walmart there is small, on the outlying edge of the city, and vastly ignored by most of the residents who prefer small town charm.
At the end of the day when we divided up the loot we had :
two big ziplocs full of vintage (i.e. cotton) rick rack and bias trims
two boxes filled with feed and flour sack material
two vintage "bottle brush" Chirstmas trees
a shoebox full of vintage buttons, most still on the cards
two beautiful wool pennyrugs
One Christmas tree garland which dates to about 1930
4 vintage pincushions and one which was definitely an antique
6 vintage thimbles
two naked, vintage Raggedy Ann Dolls (I like to make dresses for them)
AND....drum roll please.........A 1901 Singer Treadle Machine with all of the "Egyptian" paint intact!
Mom, who has always kept a treadle for "emergencies," (an emergency being there is a power outage in their small town or she and Dad are camped in an RV park without electrical hookups) looked it over and said all it needs is a new leather belt. I only paid $10.00. WooHoo!!!!!! I have been wanting one of my own treadle forever!
Best of all we had a girl day all to ourselves, which after losing Grandma a couple of weeks ago, was really good for us both. Today we are setting to work making "vintage" aprons for my sisters-in law, my nieces, and my aunts , from the feedsack material and the rick rack. Christmas Gifts
Lucinda
Oh, I forgot, I got a gallon sized ziploc filled with DMC embroidery floss.
When we were young, there were moments of such perfectly crystallized happiness that we stood stock still and silently promised ourselves that we would remember them always. And we did. --Holly J. Burkhalter , "Four Midwestern Sisters' Christmas Book"
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| westfork woman |
Posted - Oct 08 2005 : 5:09:18 PM
Funny, Diane. I will have to tell that to my mother. She is starting to fuss about what she should do with her stuff. I told her she dealt with her mother's and sister's stuff, and we will deal with hers. She should enjoy it, and not worry about what will happen to it.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Oct 08 2005 : 02:14:33 AM
My favorite Hoarding story is the lady who had so much fabric and projects going, she put them all into separate boxes with the name of one of her friends written across the side. She figured that way, if she died, they would find the box with their name on it and figure she was working on a project for them and then they would all feel SO badly, instead of being aghast at how much stuff she had!True story! |
| Utahfarmgirl |
Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 11:12:56 AM
I just found this thread, too. I think our addictions are just fine. One, because we deserve to have some fun, too, and two, because the amounts we spend are very small and don't come out of our families' mouths'. When I think of the $$ some women spend on shoes, it makes me physically sick.
Yesterday, the new (temporary) Mrs. Trump was on Martha's show. (I love Martha) She was showing off photos of her extravagant wedding. The dress alone must have been half a million dollars. When I think of all the children that could be fed in our own country who go to be hungry, it really makes me mad.
So Rummage proudly, my Sisters! And have fun!
Happy Wishes! |
| westfork woman |
Posted - Oct 07 2005 : 10:26:56 AM
Oh, I just found this thread. This problem must be a disease, but do I really want a cure? The feel and the sight of fabric is something that feeds my soul. I inherited the need for fabric (and all her stash) from my mother-in-law. When my youngest daughter left home, the door was hardly shut before all my sewing stuff, and spill over books went into her room. The computer is there too, so I can just gaze at fabric filled shelves, whenever I want. Our local thrift store carries a big supply of fabric, and it is much cheaper to indulge this habit at thrift stores than at fabric stores.
Greetings from the morning side of the hill. |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Sep 13 2005 : 10:48:30 PM
Clare -- 10 boxes of fabric??? Girl, you do need help!!!
"If you are lucky enough to have a garden, you are lucky enough!" |
| lareyna |
Posted - Sep 13 2005 : 9:06:34 PM
Don't feel too bad Clare, I recently found a box of fabric, one piece was leftover from Easter outfits I made my sons when they were 2 & 4 they are 22 and 24 now. I keep them because I am a wannabe quilter, but I think I just don't have the patience. All I have ever managed is appliqued comforters. While they turned out great they are just not "quilts". I am planning on retiring someday so I can maybe take some classes.
I was Country before Country was COOL |
| MeadowLark |
Posted - Sep 13 2005 : 4:10:55 PM
Good thoughts Clare...very grounding what has been going on in our country. Thanks for the insight.
Being is what it is. Jean Paul Sartre |
| Clare |
Posted - Sep 13 2005 : 3:48:51 PM
Well, girls, I think I may be curbed. Reality in the form on human suffering of others puts one in a reflective state, and given the fact that I had company a couple weekends ago and had to get organized and face the facts helped too. What I found when I got organized was 10+ paper reem boxes full of material, which are all sorted by color and ready to go when I need them. I imagine I surely do not need more than 10 boxes full of material. Hello...hello... Now I'll get busy and make some really creative projects with them. At the top of the list are aprons!
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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| therusticcottage |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 10:23:19 PM
My daughter hates the fabric stores too. She knows when we go to Portland that we're probably going to stop at Fabric Depot. I get whining and eye rolling but she's never packed her lunch. That's too funny!
"If you are lucky enough to have a garden, you are lucky enough!" |
| lareyna |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 2:57:29 PM
LOL!!! she who dies with the most fabric WINS!!!
I have three daughters also, had the same problem, I made ALL their clothes, even the underwear, now I just do "crafty" stuff. When one of them hasn't "borrowed" my sewing machine that is! When I asked my oldest if she would return it she asked, "when will you bring it back?" |
| Fabulous Farm Femmes |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 2:21:55 PM
CELTICHEART!!! XXOOXX
Marcia, I have laughed all morning about your daughter packing her lunch, so much that I had to get back on here and tell you. That is just the cutest darn thing I've heard in a long time! What a kid!! God love her.My three girls hated going there too, but they not never thought that far ahead! that is just hilarious. I am going to call the other half of fabulous Farm Femmes and tell her, she will love it to.She is the youngest and she is the only one who likes to sew. |
| Celticheart |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 10:59:46 AM
I can't believe I forgot the worst thing.....when quilt shops from 100+ miles away starting calling and leaving messages on the answering machine.
That happened to me and I didn't get home first to listen to the message. My husband did! At least he didn't erase it and he did tell me they called. "Something about a pattern you ordered from them. Do you want it mailed or are you going to pick it up?" I tried to pretend that I didn't know what he was talking about but....................well he's seen my sewing room.
Marcia, who's going to the outdoor quilt show at The Buggy Barn in Reardon, WA tomorrow(more fabric!!!)
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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| Celticheart |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 10:06:09 AM
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Originally posted by Nikki
You get near a fabric store, and I start foaming at the mouth. I open the entrance doors to go inside, and I swear that I hear angel's singing, and a bright white light surrounds the doors as they welcome me inside! And if a fabric "Speaks" to me - I buy it. Regardless of the fact that I may never have a use for it - but I just GOTTA have it!
Is it bad that I know all of the ladies at our local Joann's Fabrics, all the info on their family members and even got invited to one gal's birthday party last year???
LOL....that's me! And I'm the one who posted the link to the Organized home site. I don't visit there often enough.
My kids used to start crying when we'd pull up in front of a fabric store because they knew we'd be there for hours. The youngest one started packing herself a lunch whenever I would take her shopping. Before we would leave she'd ask if we were going to 'the fabric store.' If so, she would head for the kitchen and come back with her lunch packed. She was only about 4 at the time.
On an uncluttering note: this year I've been going through my fabric stash--I'm a quilter--and seriously cleaning out things I know I'll never use. I'm donating these to the Home Ec teacher at the High School(I think they call it Family Living now or something like that).
Marcia
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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