IRL Leads to Fabric Purchase

1st August 2009

IRL Leads to Fabric Purchase

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I had the most pleasant meeting yesterday with a fellow blogger, someone who’s blog and independent business entrepreneurship I’ve admired for some time now. We’ve shared comments and emails back & forth for a number of months, but our timing never allowed us to get together in real life, even though we had come to realized that we only lived about 5 miles from each other. That all changed yesterday.

Hilary from Designing Hilary decided she need to clean out a closet and that meant somehow getting rid of stacks and stacks of fabric she had accumulated over time. She knew I was a fabricaholic and invited me to have a look to see what I might want.

I have to tell you that Hilary is one of the nicest people you could ever meet. We talked for well over an hour, and even learned that besides having a common interest in creating hand made items, we also have girls about the same age which of course, gave us even more to talk about. It really was a very pleasant way to spend the afternoon, and, to top it all off, I got to go through all of her fabric!

I wish I’d had my camera with me, I bought quite a bit from her, but felt like I didn’t make a dent in what was covering her dining room table, all sorted nicely in bins and organized by color! I felt like I’d hit the jackpot and I’m sure I couldn’t hide my excitement. While I didn’t get a photo of Hilary’s entire stash, nor a photo of the 2 of us, I did take a picture of all the fabric I brought home.

Some of the floral prints I’ll be giving to my mom to use, but I do have plans all ready for all of the fat 1/4’s and many of the other pieces. I took it all into my sewing room today and organized it and can’t wait to get started. Maybe this was what I needed to get re-inspired in the sewing arena!

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1 On August 1st, 2009, Lin said:

Isn’t it fun when you can add to your stash??! And to have some older prints or things that you may not find in the store–a treasure!! How fun!

posted on August 1st, 2009 at 8:22 pm

2 On August 2nd, 2009, Louise said:

oh wow, that looks like a lot of fabric, How nice of her and lucky you. You got a great haul, what are you going to make

posted on August 2nd, 2009 at 9:43 am

3 On August 2nd, 2009, Jude said:

That looks like a lot of great material there, can’t wait to see what you create. I certainly wish I could sew, but don’t have the patience.

posted on August 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 am

4 On August 2nd, 2009, lynne said:

Lin – Being addicted to fabric makes adding to my stash the ultimate prize!

posted on August 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm

5 On August 2nd, 2009, lynne said:

Louise – I have a couple of small bags in mind for some of the fabric pieces and I am also getting ready to make some eyeglass cases out of most of the fat 1/4’s. There is a local charity that I’ll be donating those to.

posted on August 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm

6 On August 2nd, 2009, lynne said:

Jude – I don’t seem to have much patience either which probably accounts for why I tend to make smaller projects rather than big ones: I get to see the end result that much faster!

posted on August 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm

7 On August 2nd, 2009, VanillaSeven said: