My daughter Beth and I had fun this morning searching through the scrap baskets at the local quilt shop.  Beth needed some thread for her current fabric art project.  So, of course, we browsed the shop and chatted with other quilters who were out on this bitter cold, near zero day in New Hampshire.
“Not even the cold can keep quilters from haunting their favorite fabric shop,” I mused as we browsed.
Then Beth and I discovered the shop owner adding fabric pieces to the scrap basket.  These were of various sizes, colors, patterns, and textures. 
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Quilters and fabric artists simply can’t resist fabric and are always adding to their “stash.”  When I was operating a quiltmaking business I used the excuse that I never knew what colors or designs my customers would want.  Actually it did come in handy to have a large selection of fabrics to choose from when I’d get orders.
Now that I do my fabric art mainly for myself and gifts, I don’t have the excuse for collecting so much.  However, my daughter has quite an accumulation for her quilt art work….and I can always borrow!
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