adventures in fabric shopping

Our homework assignment for sewing class was to buy fabric for a skirt, a drawstring bag and a small zippered pouch.  In our manual, they listed 4 fabric shops, which was a godsent since there are approximately a zillion fabric stores in the city.

My friend, G, agreed to join me on this adventure for moral support - also because she likes crafting as much as I do.  We decided to start at PS Fabrics but were met with this:

#weak

Luckily for us, there another fabric store next door, so we started our adventure there.

Inside it was a mad house.  Most of the fabric stores turned out to be like this too.  Then we went downstairs and checked out the reupholstery fabrics.



#drools. And this was way more organized than upstairs.

Then we walked over to Purl.  Just as pretty in real life as their website.

Just so pretty and peaceful, but expensive.  The fabric was soo pretty and the staff was really helpful.  As complete fabric noobs, the saleswoman was really helpful in teaching us what kind of fabric we should use for a skirt.  Wish I remembered her name.

It was at this point, that we realized that we'd need fabric with a large pattern for the skirt.  Although I am totally drawn to fabrics with itty bitty patterns.  They will be awesome for the bag I hope to make some day.

Next we took a pit stop because G needed some fabric for a quilt that she's working on.

This is where G began loosing her mind with all the fabric hunting.  I, too, got briefly distracted and almost bought fabric just to have it.  (I can see the beginning of a really bad habit forming right now. Yikes).

Then I found the polka dot section and it was all over for me.

Then we went to the big daddy of fabric store, Mood.

I was afraid to go here (and quite frankly I thought it would be crazy expensive).  It was big and it was overwhelming, but it was also affordable.

crazy town dude.

I picked one of these four fabrics!  But even though we liked it. We kept on searching.

We went downstairs and saw the upholstery section.  Again, heaven on earth.



Next we went down the street to Rosen and Chadick.

Compared to all the other stores we saw, this was by far the most organized. Or rather, everything I was interested was easy to find.

Look how orderly this is. This helped to calm me down.

But we still weren't done.  Next stop: B&J Fabrics. *giggles* Yes, I'm 12.





I also appreciated this organizational style.



Finally we ended up at M&J Trimming.



All this stuff and all I got was a yard and a half of ribbon, which I didn't take a picture of. #womp



So even though it took all day, we finally found some fabric. I'll show it later. :)



peace,
e.