Collecting for

If it's sewing related then it would be sewing machines and thimbles. The sewing machines are complete - no more needed or wanted. Thimbles just happened and then others noticed and they started to multiply.

Fabric wise it would be black & tan. Hopefully someday I'll have a large enough assortment to make a scappy queen size bed quilt.

Outside, it would be frogs. I had one cast iron frog by my step and my SIL noticed. Now every year I get at least one more frog. My DH even got a large frog statue with a bandage over it's heart and two on it's leg and one on it's arm when DH had his by-pass surgery. People can't help but notice and then add to our collection. When you enter our yard you'll hear the real frogs croaking! I do enjoy THEM! They put me to sleep every night in the summer.

Neutrals - even before the latest post about wedding quilts made from neutrals, I started collecting them to eventually make a king size quilt for our bed. I still haven't decided on a pattern, but I want something that creates movement, and I'm hoping a variety of fabrics will help with that.

I;ve realised my stash is very much biased towards the red/pink/purple colours and I have very little in the way of greens in comparison. This may be an issue with doing that Christmas Tree project I had thought about!! Morag

1. Dead relatives aka Genealogy ME-Judy

I'm collecting for a black/white quilt as you go quilt. I finished it as a very nice lap quilt and my husband liked it so much he wanted it to be queen sized for our bed. It's not a high priority; I'm just collecting the fabic and putting it away until I have what it takes to finish. So far the colors are black/white/deep auburn-barownn.

Sunny

I won't say what I envisioned when you said Dead relatives-other than it had to do with photos....

Butterfly (every so often one of you CAN throw me for a loop)

Fabrics: darks and small prints for applique Notions: any color of thread Applique patterns--flowers, birds, & cats mostly.

British TV shows--mostly comedy and sci-fi (don't like Dr. Who), but I loved "Life On Mars" too.

Debra in VA See my quilts at

I'll share some of my Dead Relatives - might also throw in a few living ones if you'd like ;-). Some of the older photos really look like a scary bunch!

There are fabrics that I collect whenever I see them. Someday I hope to figure out a good way to showcase them in a quilt or three. Yellow roses Sewing theme sometimes cats "weird stuff" sometimes unicorns-- when the mood strikes.

I do also collect thimbles, unicorns and yellow/gold roses. And lots and lots of dust (bunnies and otherwise.)

However, I really *should* be trying to clear out a heck of a lot of this stuff. sigh.

Thanks for asking,

Pati, in Phx

Butterflyw> Every so often one of us asks:

Hmmm of the quilting related collections it just depends on what my mood is at the time I'm shopping. Yeah, I'm fickle.

Fabric - novelty prints of any kind, but particularly cats because I want to make a memory quilt in memory of my precious Sarge. He went to the Rainbow Bridge last month and I miss him terribly. He was my big lap kitty. Rulers/templates of any size/sort/pattern

Non-quilt related shot glasses from anywhere and everywhere clowns angels

Hugs, Mika Queen of Paper Piece Klutzdom

LOL, of course as soon as I hit "Send" I remembered that I have started to collect "blender" fabrics. I have lots of novelty prints and large prints and find that I really need the tone-on-tones and other "read as solid" type fabrics to use with the others. sigh.

And I still buy wonderful print fabrics..........

Pati, in Phx

Pati Cook wrote:

On topic collections would be:

- 'materials' and texturals for appliqué

- any fabric, book, pattern I see that I really like if I can afford it at the time (small collection so far)

- pictures from catalogs, magazines etc. that inspire me in some way (color combinations, pattern, quilting, embellishments etc)

- sewing room ideas for when we finally get the house remodeled and I have my own closed off space

Off topic collections:

- ideas for our major house remodel

- used to collect Precious Moments and Memories of Yesterday figurines - started by my mom as a kid and I still have the collections, but haven't add to them in several years

For some reason I'm not into collecting things like I used to be (used to do stamps and stickers as a kid, then did books by my favorite authors, trinket boxes, my figurines, and wolf items as teen/young adult.)

I always love cats fabrics, batiks and paisleys. I actually have a cat quilt that I may someday drag out the various components, see what else I need and finish that puppy, but the others are just colors/types/patterns that I love. Just Because>

ooo too many things lol... butterflys, greens, asian themed... and now pink (my most hated color, but I want to make a thank you quilt for my babysitter... she babysat my four kids for four very long years while I got my degree...I will be done in Dec. wow :) Oh and I watched this show on making tumbling blocks from border fabric so now that too lol ok fine what I am really collectig is more work hehe

Carissa

Still vaguelly on the hunt for cars/go karts/motorbikes/auto things but on the whole I am really boring and not searching for anything at all.

Well, I am collecting black on white prints and white on black prints, for a friend (25 on July 31) who loves those two colours best. Hmm.

For myself, I love stripes and rainbows and stars. Best of all are rainbow stripes. I need to make a rainbow stripey quilt all for myself.... I would never want to get out of bed if I had that on it!

Things that I collect that are not fabric? Books, coins, stamps, cookbooks, and other people's children.

-- Jo in Scotland (biological Auntie to 17, Great-Auntie to 4, "Auntie" to scores more)

We love Dr. Who! I liked it when I watched it in the 70's and I like it now. In fact, the new season is starting tonight!

I am always looking for any kind of blender fabric. Whenever I go to the LQS I end up bringing home marvelous prints, and no blender.....