Hey all! I'm participating in the Fugly Fabric Giveaway happening over at Lucy's blog;
Charm About You. Lucy is a really sweet lady who creates wonderful quilts. Well she got to thinking about those cuts in our stash we just can't fit into a quilt. Do you know what I mean...those scraps from a quilt that just don't go with anything, the left overs with no matches. This is the fabric that holds you back. It sits there and taunts you to do something with it when really you just want to circular file it. But really we're not going to throw fabric away....but we will offer it up for a giveaway because one quilter's fugly is another's f'ing awesome.
After contemplating about whether or not my fabric was too fugly I decided it was...but only to me! And maybe you'd like it. Here is my hot mess up for random giveaway grabs:
Here's the fugly part: There are no designer fabrics in this bunch. It is a hodge podge of mostly scraps, a little bit of bigger than a fat quarter and a roll of strips in tan and green.
Here's the kinda cool part: Also included to the winner is a bunch of pre-cut triangles suitable for HST, quarter square blocks and a whole rainbow chain of big flying geese (2 colored prints and 1 white triangle too).
To be a winner just leave a comment below about your worst fabric purchase. I'll leave the giveaway open until Monday the 13th (which is worse than Friday the 13th I think) and then random number generator will pick a comment that night and post on the 14th. And because I have so many awesome readers overseas this is open to US &
international!!!!
Good Luck & Cheers!
Kelly
****THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED, THANKS FOR PLAYING*****
33 comments:
Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway! I've bought plenty of fugly fabric in my time, but the worst was buying non-designer sale fabric online. It felt crunchy, like cardboard!
Hi. Those are some cool looking fabrics. I've bought a few from the market. I don't really have a worst purchase as I tend to order mystery bundles, some a hit and other's are miss. I did buy some double fuse interfacing..it's really hard...not too sure if its supposed to be like that..i'll have to see what happens when I use it.
I regret buying fabrics just because I find them super cheap - ultimately it adds up and I could have bought a smaller quantity of something I really like and would use. Thanks for the chance to win! :)
My worst fabric purchase was not fugly. I bought enough of this pretty blue batik for my first California King quilt. Grrrr. I cut all of the triangles 1/4" too small. When I went back to get more another die lot was in the store. I drove to three different stores and finally found one that was "close". Now when I look at my finished beautiful quilt, I can't tell which ones were from the first batch and which ones were from the second. It worked out... but I was really lucky. I learned my lesson. Measure once; cut twice. Thanks for a chance to win your HUGE lot!
My first project I started I bought some material drew up the plans for what I wanted and started making it. To find out I was like 10 inches short. So I go back to the store no fabric, go check another and another. Now when I buy fabric I buy tons! I hate to run out. So not worst in looks but worst in buying skills (been quilting only a month) so I need some time to make some bad decisions.
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Stop by for my quilt givaway to guess my babys b-day and weight.
I did not realize my 'worst fabric purchase' at the time - just picked out a pretty navy 100% cotton print, which I later used in a lap quilt for my Mom, a lap quilt for my daughter, and I think a 3rd lap quilt for someone else --- all gorgeous, carefully sewn Dresden plates in various shades of blue, with the soon to be infamous navy blue print as sashing. My mom loved her quilt! She proudly displayed it on an antique rocker in the bay window of the diningroom...and that sucker faded and faded and faded. It did NOT fade evenly. I felt so bad! And no, I had not purchased it at a quilt shop, but at a certain well-known discount fabric chain store. Yikes!
My worst fabric purchase was a piece of green fabric I bought to use as backing for a Christmas Quilt. I finally decided the green was too ugly (and not really a Christmas green at all). So, I buried it in the bottom of my closet. I keep thinking it might be okay for a baby quilt, but I'm not sure it would look good on that either. It's just a rather bilious green.
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EEEK! The worst I ever purchased was along time ago at Walmart (it was the only fabric store around and it was before the internet). I needed some white and found some super cheap. When I got home, the back had some sort of plastic coating on it. I am not sure what type of fabric it was.
My worst purchase was from an online auction. The fabric was vintage 100% cotton, and it seemed like a great deal. I wanted to do a tangerine orange themed quilt, and loved the large white dots on a tangerine background. Perfect - or so I thought! I ended up with 10-yards of the thinest, over-starched, cheaply made fabric that I have ever seen. Oh well, I learned that vintage fabric may not always be great fabric, and you get what you pay for!
My worst purchase was when I bought 8 yards of this really ugly fabric with like one foot American Indian feathers in white and red with the headband. I had taken a quilting class and the teacher suggested we get large patterns to use as backings. Ugh! I have cut little pieces off to use for the white or the red.... Your fabric on the other hand looks lovely to me - I especially like the precut squares, rectangles and triangles - they would make excellent leader and ender sewing - so I hope I win! I'm a new follower of your blog too. Thanks! Fingers crossed.
... hmmmm....can't remember any really bad purchase.
Thank you for a great giveaway! Have a lovely weekend! x Teje
Thank you for a great giveaway!
My worst purchase was a large print for a kaleidoscope class - the fabric was so badly printed that in the end I gave up and bought some more(different) fabric!
My worst fabric purchase was a piece of fabric with cats on it. I don't particularly like cats and would never make anything for my house with cats on. It's been sat on my shelf for over a year now! Think I ought to find a new home for it!
I'm on a very tight budget at the moment and can't afford any new fabric so some new fabric (which looks nice by the way) would be fab!
One spring, corduroy was on deep discount and I bought a ton in different colors and patterns. While I've managed to use some, most of it still sits unused in my closet as it is unsuitable for most of the things I make. Live and learn, I guess. I love your little collection of calicoes and dots though. That is more my style!
My worse fabric purchase? Was actually a NON fabric purchase. Twisting the story a bit - I WISH I had purchased the Aunt Grace 15th anniversary Black Scotty dog with red coat and tiny black dots on cream/white background. BUT :( I didn't and now I want some, and it's out of print, and I am LUCKY only to find a few fat quarters to trade from kind sweet quilting girls who feel my pain. Oh Woe -
Sorry - just got a bit carried away there.
I love your fugly's, and the triangles are pretty as can be :-)
Honestly my worse fabric purchase - was actually a gift. Twisting the story again. Sorry. But it was a gift - a fat quarter of putrid green with mustard colored uneven stripes. I just can't think of what I would ever use it for. I should put it in the fugly party.
I admire you brave women who are willing to let go of their fugly's.
SMILES! :-)
Cathy
Great collection of fabrics! So fun!
My worst fabric purchase is some yellow home decor fabric. Why would I buy that? There is no yellow in my home and I certainly don't use home decor fabric... darn clearance bin.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for offering your fabrics!! It's not fugly especially the HSTs...
My worst fabric purchase is some silk fabric which still sit in my stash. I don't know what I want to sew with it. I bought it because it's silk and I think it will make a comfortable clothe but I was wrong. It's very hard to cut and sew.
I bought some big big brown/red flower fabric and it was really fugly but luckily I managed to offload it on one of my patchwork guilders who's nearing 80 and so actually liked it :O)
Those fabrics would look great in a string quilt (my current fad).
My worst fabric purchase was some, what I thought, gorgeous cotton solids in a purple and a pink. The colours were/are stunning. It wasn't until I got it home that I discovered it was sateen. Oh I felt terrible and it wasn't cheap either!
Thanks for hosting this.
My worst fabric purchase, hm...well, it wasn't a purchase, but some fabric I picked up free off of Craigslist or something... it was awful. Word to the wise: if you say that you have free fabric available, you should probably make sure it's actually fabric and not ugly sweatshirts, and that the fabric that IS there isn't covered with mysterious brown stains! Eep!
Thank you for linking up and for the chance to win! Hopefully you've found some maybe-not-so-fuglies in the other posts. ;)
I have always wanted to do a flying geese quilt, but was afraid i wouldn't get it right. if i won your giveaway, i could use yours as a guide. the worse fabric i purchased was a pre cut double wedding ring quilt. i bought it at a yard sale and it is just pure ugly yo me corbitt56@gmail.com
I haven't been doing this long enough to have a really horrendous story to share. I did get some odd bits in a scrap bag I bought a couple weeks ago though. I'm contemplating whether they'll play nice with other fabrics when cut smaller or if I should just use them to practice on. Thankfully most of the bag I think will be useful!
Those fabrics don't look that fugly to me :) I don't really have a bad fabric purchase but at one time, when I had more money, I would buy fabric just because. And then not use it for anything, which is just a waste of money. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Worst fabric purchase: 10 yards (YES! 10 yards!) of a navy flowery print that looks like it was from the 80s. I thought it would make great placemats for all my kids' families for Christmas, but no one liked the fabric, so it has appeared in many scrap quilts and as backing for some others. Thanks for the giveaway!
The worst fabric I ever purchased came from Walmart(the only fabric store close by without driving for an hour). When I started to cut it, I saw that it had places all through it that looked like the threads had been pulled. Thanks for the chance to win. Joyce-ccarter13@windstream.net
Fabric for me only gets ugly after I've had it forever. I do have a piece of weird Southwest-like fabric I made a quillow for my brother years ago. Both the quillow and the fabric are yucky!
My worst fabric purchase was about 10 years ago my husband and I where on a trip and stopped at quilt store to walk around, been in the car to long. I didn't even know how to sew but they had all these precuts for a flower basket block quilt. It was so pretty, and costly, $100, we bought it. Parts of it just shreaded after I took it out of the package. It had no directions and I didnt know what to do, I cried a lot over it.
Worst fabric purchase is the dinosaur fabric I have listed in my Fugly post. It is not good quality, and I never made the curtains I intended. Other worse purchase - all the things I purchased and never used.
Worst fabric purchase? It would have to be the bright green stuff with even brighter clay statues and beads on it that I got in a mystery bundle of fat quarters. It was quilt shop stuff, so I couldn't bring myself to throw it out and the color was so...different...that not even cutting it into tiny bits would work. But I did find another quilter who was making a quilt from that line of fabrics who was thrilled to have it.
I bought some fabric in the charity shop once which was meant for a hippy dress. Due to really bad quality of it, it ended up being a clown costume. But the fabric was so bad it just wouldnt stop fraying! Even when hemmed or zigzagged it just fell apart. I still have it as I still have hope that one day I will be able to use it, but it was very disappointing. Thanx for this giveway, such a good idea!
Worst fabric purchase - luckily it was just inexpensive - what we thought was a flannel plaid (sealed in plastic and couldn't touch it) turned out to be a lycra plaid. Wasn't what we wanted for little girl jumpers so thought let's prewash it. It is still sitting on the dryer - like MJ we wonder if can ever use it all frayed and stretchy.
Now your fabric has beautiful colors and there is a wonderful quilt to be made from this assortment. Thanks for the chance.
I am only just starting out and don't really have a stash yet let alone any mistakes - I choose my fabric carefully as I don't get to buy it often. I am trying to collect a stash of fabrics as I have started using appliqué with my hand embroidery and would like to have a good selection of fabrics & colours to use when ever I start a project without having to go to the fabric shop or my mums stash (my usual first stop).
Thanks for the chance to win these.
This is such a lovely giveaway...will love parts/all of it. Hope I am lucky to win soem designer fabric which is completely unavailable in India.
Leena(India)
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