I've had to move my (huge) fabric stash to make room for my (ever-growning) yarn stash.

national sewing month? hmm. I sewed the armholes on my tank top today so my bra straps are invisible. What a way to celebrate!!

The books are darling. I saw the link to Engelbreit. Can you post where you find the fabric books, please? I'd love to make some.
Thanks, and keep up the wonderful work!
;-)

It's a good think your Mom lives near BG.

Susie, the Engelbreit link takes you to her fabric, which includes two cloth books. Otherwise, I've found some at Jo-Ann's Fabric, at the Fabric Place, and you can find lots on eBay. When searching online you can search for something like "book fabric panel".

my yarn and fabric stashes are taking over the study/workroom. shhh, don't tell the boy!

Gorgeous quilt fabrics! It's going to look great.

Yay! Quilting! Really it becomes just as addicting as knitting. I think its all the fabric choices. The only problem is now your going to have two ginormous stashes to handle. But that also means twice the eye candy. I hope you enjoy your class.

It's got to be way harder to hide two stashes than one. Love the books & fabrics.

I really want to learn to quilt. I can't wait to see what you come away with after the class!

Now that your into sewing it will be interesting to see how long it takes your fabric to outsize your yarn stash! For me its'a toss up...

I love those fabrics! I'll have to take a quilting class sometime soon.

Just curious, is there any reason why you don't let the whole post show in bloglines?

Liane

Welcome to a whole new world!

The quilting bug big me long before the knitting bug did, and I have the stash to prove it. My problem is that as the quilting stash expanded, I had less and less space to lay out quilts, so I got fewer and fewer made. Basically, my fabric got in the way of my quilting. So far my yarn has not gotten in the way of my knitting, but I suppose that day will come too.

Great choice of fabrics in that little bundle you have there!

Every craft I've ever done is like this. I have more beading, cross-stitch and fabric than really can be believed given that I haven't done much other than knitting. Even with that, all of the stashes are still growing... just slower.

I was so influenced by your recent sewing posts that not only did I purchase "Bend-the-Rules Sewing" but I also bought a sewing machine!!! Fabric & notions seem so much cheaper than knitting materials that it's tempting to amass a large stash quickly. :) I just finished my first project (a baby bib -- kind of wonky with mistakes but cute) yesterday. Do you ever feel like you're "cheating" on knitting when you sew? :)

As a quilting/knitter, I can understand your fascination with the fabrics. Acquiring them can be as addictive as collecting yarns. You'll have lots of fun with it. I haven't found it as portable as my knitting (especially socks!) and as one person said, you need a lot of room to lay out a quilt top for final assembly and marking. I loved the woman who said she never had to worry about the slats breaking on their bed; she had so much fabric stored under there, that her husband would never have known the difference!

Welcome to the fold! Have fun with your class!

tell me about it. I'm strugling to throw stuff away (not knitted related) in order to make more space for Number 2. I also want to find a good place for my stash, instead of having it in all sorts of place including a box on top of a cupboard.
As for cutting...cool cutter...I had to break my knuckles when helping MIL cut out fabric for Gil's Pyjama. We were cutting on the kitchen table. I'd like to get some fabring books for my little one to be...I'm just not sure I'll ever get to do it...do you saw by hand or machine. do you have good instructions ?

hey, almost forgot, what happend to the knitted miterd squares you were working on for your MIL and FIL

LOL, Orli, I didn't forget.

Alison, I'm surprised you don't have more WIP.

Thank you for sharing your kids with us. It satisfies my cute kid fix.

you're going to love quilting. i actually learned how to knit when i realized i couldn't bring my sewing machine back to my dorm.

they're fiber artists, just like us!

Oh yeah, you'll do just fine.

I'm a quilter who learned to knit - double the stash double the fun :)

Do you realize what you're getting into? I quilt and knit - I just wanted to warn you, but I think it's too late!

Quilters and knitters have much in common. I do both and the hoarding tendancies are the same. I hope you have lots of space. This is a very slippery slope!

National sewing month explains a lot. I picked up fabric to make slacks (!) and have the urge to finish a nearly complete quilt. Sew on!

There must have been gremlins in the air because my sewing machine made it's way out of the closet for the first time in years! And I have a bunch more to sew!

Wee one looks like she is enjoying those books.

How many yards of fabric do you need to buy to make one book? I looked on the other website that you linked to last time and it doesn't say how many yards to make one book.

I have no space for a sowing stach. Yarn is already everywhere. Good luck on your quilting adventure.

I hope you blog about what you learn in your quilting class. I took my first quilting class 19 years ago. Since then I've been self-taught when it comes to newer techniques. There are so many more products out there to aid a quilter now. It will be interesting to see which techniques are covered in a beginning quilting class.