Help me change my style! Bought a couple things!

[Bubblingbrooks]

Oh CUTE BB

*goes hunting some more* LOL!!!

Can we tell who hasn't been in a church in decades?

Here are the so easy patterns ...

Bet you've never been to the kind we go to now
Its not your average church on the corner

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

OOOO! #2322 would be perfect with a bit more length and an extra piece at "the bosom"
I am going to get that pattern.

 

[abifae]

Hoorah!! Break out the sewing machine!!!

I got my nieces one. I was hoping for a holiday sale, but no luck But since I was there, I got it anyway LOL.

So!!! This spring I'm going to set aside a couple hundred and take them shopping. They need a cutting board, scissors, some basic patterns, thread, pins... a magnet to gather dropped pins because they have deep carpet and a dog. It might be all dog hair, and no carpet. Hard to tell.

I'm thinking of buying everything they need to each make a really simple project. They might get a nice chunk of my tax return LOL!!!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Yep,.keep forgeting that you are in Alaska! I bet the internet is your bestfriend finding some things. I know being here in WV can be bad enough at times. Sometimes this place can be positively midevil ,..but sometimes that is the best thing about it too . That is why I LOVE my dial-up internet. I mostly shop online and at the local thrift stores. Hunt the internet and find some good deals on fabrics and some new patterns,...gotta love the world wide web!

Thing is, I can go shop at Saks 5th Avenue in Anchorage if I wanted. So we are not lacking. Its just costs of new and fabric costs make me ill!

Fabric for Denim wrap skirts with a coupon run me $40!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Hoorah!! Break out the sewing machine!!!

I got my nieces one. I was hoping for a holiday sale, but no luck But since I was there, I got it anyway LOL.

So!!! This spring I'm going to set aside a couple hundred and take them shopping. They need a cutting board, scissors, some basic patterns, thread, pins... a magnet to gather dropped pins because they have deep carpet and a dog. It might be all dog hair, and no carpet. Hard to tell.

I'm thinking of buying everything they need to each make a really simple project. They might get a nice chunk of my tax return LOL!!!

I am teaching my niece to sew as well. We gave her a machine as well.
She just finished her quilt top, and soon we will finish the rest of it.

 

[abifae]

This is where I get MOST of my fabric.

If there is a sale and/or a good coupon I'll hit Joann's.

 

[abifae]

I am teaching my niece to sew as well. We gave her a machine as well.
She just finished her quilt top, and soon we will finish the rest of it.

NICE!! I live about an hour or two (and I don't drive) from them, so something that is REALLY simple... That they can do entirely on their own.

I take them each for 2-4 weeks in the summer (hoping dad lets me again this year hahaha) and I want to plan a specific project for each of them

And Auntie lives near enough to go help out if they get too stuck So REALLY simple hahaha.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

This is where I get MOST of my fabric.

If there is a sale and/or a good coupon I'll hit Joann's.

Wow! Their Linen prices are wonderful! I LOVE linen year round.

 

[ORChick]

This is where I get MOST of my fabric.

If there is a sale and/or a good coupon I'll hit Joann's.

Thanks! I've marked that site to go back to later when I have a bit more time.
I find some very nice cottons at the local quilt store - not particularly cheap (though not really that much more than Joannes), but a nice selection. I don't quilt, but I love looking at their fabrics. I made a gorgeous evening skirt from *quilt* fabric some years ago.

 

[Henrietta23]

You all should come to Alaska and try to buy Fabric on a budget Or at the thrift store
If I plan Joannes coupons very carefully I can keep it down, but its still way over what I could buy already made online.

When our friends from Fairbanks came down, they brought an empty duffle bag and filled it up with fabric!