You Know You're a Quilter When....
For the record, I'm guilty of every single "when" that follows.
Personally Speaking
- you can't pass by fabric without stroking it.
- fabric fondling does not sound obscene.
- all the gifts you give, whatever the occasion, are quilts.
- you plan your vacation around quilt shops.
- you take your sewing machine with you on your vacation.
- your mangled fingertips are a badge of courage.
- people are always picking threads off you.
- you think thread is a fashion accessory.
- you have to work to pay for your quilting.
- you think your job is an interruption in your quilt time.
- your cat thinks all quilts are there for her to sleep on.
- you have survived a quilting injury.
- you own more than one sewing machine.
Those Darn Quilts
- you have more UFOs than Area 51.
- you have more UFOs than you can possibly do in the next year.
- your New Years Resolution is always to finish the UFOs.
- you've not only seen a UFO, but you have a closet full of them to prove it.
- you're planning your next 5 quilts and you haven't finished the one you're working on.
- you buy ladders to hang your un-quilted tops on.
- Around the House
- there is more fabric in the house than food.
- you have more seam rippers than paring knives.
- you refer to your sewing room as your store.
- you convert your guest bedroom into your sewing room.
- you look at an empty wall and imagine a quilt hanging on it.
- you take down pictures in order to hang some quilts.
- you donate your artificial Christmas tree to charity and make a quilted wall hanging of a tree to use instead.
- your vacuum roller seizes from all the thread wrapped around it.
- your ironing board is always set up but you never iron clothes.
The Stash
- you have enough material to make everyone you know a quilt.
- you cant outlive your stash.
- there is fabric in your stash that you have no recollection buying.
- you have fabric in your stash that you've never seen before.
- you don't use fabric from your stash because you might need it some day.
The Quilt Shop
- every quilt shop employee knows your first name.
- you are in a strange city and almost cause an accident doing a U turn when you spot a quilt shop.
- you ask for quilt shop gift certificates for Christmas.
- you can't leave a quilt shop for under $100.00.
- you have no qualms about driving for hours and hours to go to a quilt show.
- you have no qualms about driving for hours and hours to go to a quilt shop.
- you drive 300 miles and stay overnight to pick up fabric from a quilt shop rather than have them mail it.
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