I went in today for the first time in months, to take advantage of the sale on Christmas fabrics, more precisely, the cloth books to make for little ones. A friend is a 1st time GM to 2 G'babies and another due in December, plus DB/DSIL have the new DGD, age 6 months. I saw the patterns(new to me) Taylor G for Hancock Fabrics patterns, has anyone used them? There was a display of nice fabric next to them and cards with some of the most beautiful buttons I've seen in a long time. Well, I bought one pattern "Marine" to make and since the jacket shows 5 buttons, I got a card of the buttons. It calls for a linen/linen-like fabric, but I thought I'd make a muslin of cotton and if it turns out well, then do it in light rose bengaline. Today's bengaline looks like, what we called silk shantung in the old days. Also.I was given a card and key tag with my customer # on it so I do not need to have the address label from the mail-ads anymore. Stop going into a store for a few months and you find all sorts of new things going on. Yes, I did get two books to make, called "The Twelve Days of Christmas for Children" to augment two+ I already have, "The Night Before Christmas" and "Children's Christmas Carols". All my DGC have loved these cloth books. Emily
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