Tut tut, Trish! You must take a look at my Fabric List (on the web site), and start impulse buying by post! Best buzz there is - you never know quite what you will get... ;)
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Dec 30, 2003
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I feel like cryinging after reading an article in our local newspaper's business section today. JoAnn's is planning to cut back their fabrics and put more focus on crafts. In our area we do not need more crafts. We have Michael's (no fabric), JoAnn's (who already devotes half of the store to crafts), A.C. Moore (no fabric), the Rag Shop (who devotes 3/4 of their footage to crafts), and the areas in Walmart. Looks like we need to arrange buying trips to Asia to get halfway decent fabric. I haven't tried the computerized pattern makers yet, as I'm thinking their designs are too limited and I have no talents in that direction. However, if the pattern mfgrs don't stop cutting back in the Plus designs, I'll be forced to computerized patterns. 8-(
another Sharon
another Sharon
If you really look at the pattern book patterns, there are only so many patterns that can be made. So many of them are just tiny variations of another pattern. I'm a real believer in basic patterns that fit. For years I only had
5 patterns. Skirt, pant, jacket, blouse, and vest. A dress is a long blouse. Small changes to these gave me lots of choices. I go to the pattern books, and come home with no patterns, because they are all duplicates of each other. Once you get a computer pattern to fit, you have many choices.Sandy E
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