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by asterixsew 15 Aug 2012 ( edited Aug 16'12 23:02 )
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Do I have a problem?

I realised this afternoon as I was buying some fabric that I have bought fabric every day since Sunday. So today is the fourth day running that I have bought fabric. All has been bought in different shops in different places. So do I have a addiction that I was unaware of and do I buy more fabric tomorrow?

Comments (25)
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by spendlove 15 Aug 2012
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Of course (on all counts!)
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by nhsmith55 15 Aug 2012
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I don't see a problem here at all! Buy more! You can never have too big of a stash!
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by brendaleas 15 Aug 2012
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sounds like you are my twin sister, I love fabric. I love the fill of it under my finger tips, the smell of yards and yards of it in the store. Not to mention the colors. I can spend hours in my sewing room going through the purchased yardage from trips of the past, just sitting on the floor unfolding and looking at my fabric dreaming of items to make out of it. After hours of dreaming I careful fold it up, and pack it away for when I need just the right piece of fabric to make that something special. So the answer to question, Yes! go forth,my sewing sister, and buy the fabric all that you can. I'd love to see it too. Please download a picture of your wonderful purchases. I will not be able to smell it or run my fingers over it , but I will be able to see the colors.
Have fun shopping for just the right piece of fabric. BrendaLea
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by marjialexa 15 Aug 2012
Oh, BrendaLea, I couldn't have said it better! Years ago, when my friend was still alive, if one of us was feeling blue, we'd both go to the fabric stores, feel & smell the fabric, and feel better!
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by ansalu 15 Aug 2012
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That's the reason why I try to stay away from the dutch fabric markets. Loose the control and only get hold when the moneybag is empty but nowerdays many of them accept EC-cards :o(
Feels like a gambler who would spend all his money at the gambling-table: No food for the kids but mother has new fabric...
Greetings, Bettina
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by asterixsew 15 Aug 2012
This looks fantastic, we aught to organise a visit to a Dutch fabric market
by marjialexa 15 Aug 2012
Oh, no, I NEED to be there!! Bettina, can I come to your house, hee hee hee?
by berny 15 Aug 2012
When and where are they held,I want to go.
by debi197 15 Aug 2012
i would not do well in a dutch fabric market. I would never leave! and ladies, don't forget after the debit card is used up, there are always the charge cards.

just thinking positive here :)

debi
by marjialexa 16 Aug 2012
After the debit card ran out, I'd put a sign around my neck, "Will work for fabric!"
by spendlove 16 Aug 2012
What a great idea. I think we should all go together. They won't know what has hit them!
by ansalu 16 Aug 2012
For those who have the possibility to make a short trip to Germany here are the dates of the markets now in autumn:
www.stoffmarktholland.de/stoffmarkt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=22
Have fun there :o)
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by crafter2243 15 Aug 2012
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Why should you suffer all by yourself
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by chenille 15 Aug 2012
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Buy more tomorrow! Just remember,it makes GREAT insulation!! :-)) The problem is not in the buying it is in the CUTTING!
Hugs, Nadyne
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by asterixsew 16 Aug 2012
Nadyne this is the comment one of the customers in shop 2 (day 2) said
by ansalu 16 Aug 2012
My problem is more: Where should I store it? All cupboards are packed with fabric. My solution: I need more cupboards *lol*
by asterixsew 16 Aug 2012
This is also a problem for me:(
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by ramona 15 Aug 2012
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No, you are perfectly normal, normal, normal. Every day you can buy fabric is a good day :-).
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by nonna57 15 Aug 2012
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NO... I dont see a problem here!!!!!!! Must be a typo cause i think we all think and sometimes "like, real regular" do the same. Happy shopping while you can :)
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by asterixsew 16 Aug 2012
Pauline I think this was even a first for me but I have bought the fabric for my ss cushion from 2 of the shops
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by rsehorse 16 Aug 2012
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I think you are lucky
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by mad14kt 16 Aug 2012
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FABRICAHOLIC...but what the heck...BUY MORE tomorrow...LOL ;D *2U
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by asterixsew 16 Aug 2012
Thanks for the excuse to have another trip
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by noah 16 Aug 2012
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Wellllllllll i would say if you can pay for it and its a good deal go for it but don't run up big bills or the fabric scurouge will get ja:):)sooner or latter Dad said pay me now or pay me latter hugs carolyn
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by vickiannette 16 Aug 2012
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Yep, join a long line of sufferers!!
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by hightechgrammy 16 Aug 2012
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You are doing what I call "incubating" an idea - or two or three. My guess is you have some projects in mind and those fabrics fit in someway. Or, they just made you happy! You may be addicted, but so am I - and just about every sewer I know! Go shopping again tomorrow - you never know what you might find! HE HE Jan
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by spendlove 16 Aug 2012
Good excuse line, Jan. Must remember that one!
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by hightechgrammy 16 Aug 2012
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Just think how expensive one round of golf costs! I bet it is more than your four days of fabric shopping :-) And ... you will.... eventually .... use the fabric to make thing to give, or to save you money!
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by spendlove 16 Aug 2012
I always use golf as a comparison as well. Works for so many things - fabrics, guitars, ukuleles, sweing machines......
by mops 16 Aug 2012
Only problem is my husband does not play golf. Just swims...
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by gandu 16 Aug 2012
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Oh my God where is this place i want to go stay there I stay in a place where even super walmart does not have fabric poor me boo boo boo
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by asterixsew 16 Aug 2012
It was not one place but 4 places. It would take a day to travel to each one over a day
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by crousse 16 Aug 2012
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OMG...where is this place! I need a field-trip..hehehe Looks like FUN! Charlotte :-)
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by blueeyedblonde 16 Aug 2012
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Yay! One more of us!
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by bevgrift 16 Aug 2012
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Hope you have fun sewing all your fabric into fantanstic projects.
You are lucky to find so many shops with fabrics.
Happy Stitching Bev
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by cfidl 16 Aug 2012
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If the opportunity and the means say yes then who are we to argue? You know as well as I do there is the chance it may never be available again. LLDS!
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by greysewist 16 Aug 2012
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I think you're just passionate about helping the economy. And others have said fabric shops are closing, so you're also helping them stay in business by buying from them. Yes, you obviously need to go back for more tomorrow :)
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by smallwunderz 16 Aug 2012
I agree with this !!

And I will be headed out today after work to add to my growing collection of quilting fabrics. Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to sew I go ..... Lois W.
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by tolgamum 16 Aug 2012
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Yes! Yes! Yes! you are beginning to display early symptoms of a rather serious fabricaholic disease. This can last some sufferers almost a lifetime with little hope of a successful cure... The enclosed pictures of the Dutch Fabric Market which appear to be stashed between plots of "weed"; nefariously planted to distract attention from law-abiding agencies are most likely dens of inequity no self-respecting embroiderer would enter.
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by tolgamum 16 Aug 2012
Stop! Stop now and save yourselves. and if you can't do that can you please let me know the addresses - purely for instructional purposes of course.
by asterixsew 16 Aug 2012
The addresses are all UK, any use? Love your reply
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by pennyhal 16 Aug 2012
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No, not an addiction. You are merely streamlining your shopping skills. You need to make a map showing where the stores are and mark them in order so that you can hit one each day until you get them all and then start over again. That way you won't miss any.
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by asterixsew 16 Aug 2012
I know where all the shops are and the 2 that have not been visited. I have travelled over 100 miles to achieve the 4 day shop as I live in a rural area and I have to travel for a choice
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by asterixsew 16 Aug 2012
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Thanks for the replies, pity we cant all go on a shop together
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by juanitadenney 16 Aug 2012
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Yes and No!!! Yes keep adding to your stash so buy more fabric tomorrow and No you don't have an addiction. WE just love fabric......... That's what I keep telling myself but yes I have an addiction but I really can't speak for you. You will have to answer that one on your own. Juanita
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by lulu07 16 Aug 2012
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OMG I love all the replies to your question...I too have that serious disease..however, I don't know of a cure yet, so I keep buying...love the fabic market, wish that we had one here...but I guess than I would have to be admitted to a looney ward for symtoms due to fabricoholics....this made me smile thank you!