Do I have a problem?

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!

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

Thanks for the replies, pity we cant all go on a shop together

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

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

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.

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!

Hope you have fun sewing all your fabric into fantanstic projects.
You are lucky to find so many shops with fabrics.
Happy Stitching Bev

Yay! One more of us!

OMG...where is this place! I need a field-trip..hehehe Looks like FUN! Charlotte :-)

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

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...

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!

Yep, join a long line of sufferers!!

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

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

I think you are lucky

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

No, you are perfectly normal, normal, normal. Every day you can buy fabric is a good day :-).

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:(

Why should you suffer all by yourself

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 15 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)

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!

I don't see a problem here at all! Buy more! You can never have too big of a stash!

Of course (on all counts!)