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From: MaryW
Date: 07-13-2007, 07:57 AM (1 of 28)
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If you could buy fabrics from anywhere in the world at any price, where would you purchase? www.emmaonesock.com has some drop dead gorgeous stuff. MaryW
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From: DorothyL
Date: 07-13-2007, 08:13 AM (2 of 28)
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I can't afford that stuff. Dorothy |
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From: MaryW
Date: 07-13-2007, 10:37 AM (3 of 28)
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ok Miss Happyface. The question was "If you could buy fabrics from anywhere in the world at any price, where would you purchase?" Another nice one is www.candlelightvalleyfabrics.com They have one of the most intelligent fabric sites I have found. MaryW
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From: DorothyL
Date: 07-13-2007, 11:32 AM (4 of 28)
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Well, I guess I would go to the New York garment district. I also like Vogue fabric stores in Chicago. At least I like their mail order service. But if we are doing a total fantasy thing, I guess I would travel all over the world and buy a little here and a little there -- silk in Asia and Italy, wool from the UK and Pauline's neighborhood. Oh and some from France. Linen from Ireland -- well, you get the picture. And maybe some of those beautiful over priced knits from Emma One Sock! Dorothy |
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From: ddreev
Date: 07-13-2007, 11:50 AM (5 of 28)
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The sewing guides on the Emma One Sock site look like they could be helpful. Dorothy Dorothy D.
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From: DorothyL
Date: 07-13-2007, 01:19 PM (6 of 28)
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This is confusing!! Dorothy |
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 07-13-2007, 02:18 PM (7 of 28)
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Those are both too rich for my blood.. Thank goodness we do not have prices like that around here... ! ! !
Sew With Love
Libby |
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From: MartySews2
Date: 07-13-2007, 05:37 PM (8 of 28)
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Mary, emmaonesock does have luscious fabrics but not everyone wants to sew with designer stuff. About $10 a yard is my limit when purchasing. Thanks for the wonderful eye candy. Marty 
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From: MaryW
Date: 07-13-2007, 07:33 PM (9 of 28)
This was supposed to be a daydream sort of wishful thinking mode. I gotta say you girls are no fun. I will delete this topic. 
MaryW
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From: DorothyL
Date: 07-13-2007, 08:30 PM (10 of 28)
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"I'm taking my ball and going home," she said. Dorothy |
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From: MartySews2
Date: 07-13-2007, 11:41 PM (11 of 28)
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Daydreaming about where I would shop for fabric if price and location were not factors, I guess I would hop aboard a Concord jet and head for Paris, France. Then on to Italy with a stop in China afterwards and then head for home stopping in England before hitting the NYC garment district. I'm sure that I could find something to purchase. However, if money were no object, I would either build onto my home so I could have a sewing room or move to a larger home. LOL!!! DH would not like to incur another housenote since the house has been paid in full. It's off to dreamland ... Thanks for a fun topic, Mary. Marty 
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From: ninifav
Date: 07-14-2007, 01:01 AM (12 of 28)
| Oh my, what beautiful sites...wonder if the web will ever develop so that we can reach out and touch and feel!! When I was growing up, there was a fabulous fabric store on St.Charles Ave in New Orleans..I was only in my teens and just walking in there would inspire you to want to sew...I was never very good; but, man oh man, those fabrics...Last time I was in there was B.K. (before Katrina) so I don't know if it re-openend.. It was called La Promenade...Carried only top quality, gorgeous material... |
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From: grandma C
Date: 07-14-2007, 01:57 AM (13 of 28)
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I am so dumb about fine fabrics I don't even know how to dream but I sure do like the sound of traveling to the ends of the earth to find them!!! Belinda |
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From: Bama
Date: 07-14-2007, 02:06 AM (14 of 28)
me too! 
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From: Sancin
Date: 07-14-2007, 02:40 AM (15 of 28)
I grew up in sewing sewing on the pure fibre fabrics. My dream is to find them all in one place and to have time and energy to sew all the wonderful things one can - and would wear - sigh. My mother always told me I had champagne taste and beer wages, like one of grandmothers - obviously not her mother, who actually taught me to sew. 
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: bridesmom
Date: 07-14-2007, 05:39 PM (16 of 28)
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We have a store here in town that I have visited once, because I was a bit intimidated, but they have gorgeous fabrics mostly from India. Some of them are outrageously expensive but absolutely beautiful. I'd be happy just to travel somewhere and hang out in the fabric stores for a few days. Since I don't need anything but scrubs for work and we don't go out socializing anywhere fancy, my wardrobe is pretty much casual, but I'd love to have some of those really beautiful fabrics that's for sure.
Laura
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From: mommydionne
Date: 07-14-2007, 09:49 PM (17 of 28)
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mmmmmm just saw this thread, me? I love real silk and wool, not much into linen I've got to say, and knits that are really good, not this icky poly stuff that beads and pills. wonderful sites, It kind of makes me think of when I window shop in stores like Holt Renfrew (where you can drop $18 000 on a shearling coat if you felt like it ) nice but not quite in my budget. I would reserve these fabrics for a well tested pattern and a special event, I could see buying them in that circumstance. Nice to dream though eh?? Jeanette
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From: plrlegal
Date: 07-14-2007, 11:57 PM (18 of 28)
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Good sites Mary. I'm fortunate in that we have a privately owned fabric store here in Oklahoma City owned by Helen Enox and she has really gorgeous expensive fabrics that you would never find in your chain fabric stores and it is a real fix to go in there and just touch and feel all the lucious fabrics and dream about the garments you could sew with them. The sales ladies in there are really great and they just leave you alone to browse if that's what you want to do or they'll answer any questions you have about patterns or fabrics. Patsy Patsy
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From: MaryW
Date: 07-15-2007, 07:13 AM (19 of 28)
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I visited Britex fabrics in San Francisco years ago. What a place that is. I know I wandered around with my mouth open. Four floors of gorgeous stuff. One floor is nothing but ribbons and trim.
MaryW
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From: Addicted2Sewing
Date: 07-15-2007, 12:22 PM (20 of 28)
| Hard for me to dream up anything about pricey fabrics. I only sew with cotton quilt prints I guess you would call it lol. The only fabric I can think of that is over my budget is the fabric that Ottobre offers. I love the Euro prints. Of course I wouldn't just want to buy fabric, I would spend endless amount of money on Ribbons, Patterns, Sewing tables, Embroidery machines, Sergers, and other Notions. |
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From: sable
Date: 07-18-2007, 10:11 PM (21 of 28)
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I'd want to go to Germany to get some of the Ottobre fabrics, Ireland for linen, Scotland for tartans, Vietnam for silks, New York for the designer stuff, Auckland for merino knits, Italy for wool suitings...... I'd then need to get a storage area added onto the house. Unfortunately I don't have this sort of money, but dreams are free! My Mum bought me some boiled wool on the weekend though, that's my Christmas present and is going to become a new coat for next winter; it's a nice bright periwinkle colour. |
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From: ninifav
Date: 07-18-2007, 10:49 PM (22 of 28)
| hey, Sable, that sounds like a great road trip...count me in..(of course, some people may say that we are tripping on some of those weird mushrooms!) but who is weirder than sewists left to run amuck in a fabric store!! hehehe |
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From: sable
Date: 07-18-2007, 11:04 PM (23 of 28)
We're not weird, we're perfectly normal. It's all those other people who are weird!
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From: BethS
Date: 08-11-2007, 09:34 PM (24 of 28)
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I'd make my wedding gown with this lace: http://www.supremefabrics.com/432-rb.htm Beth |
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From: VenusElaine
Date: 08-11-2007, 10:45 PM (25 of 28)
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If price and location were no object - silk, silk, silk! Then all and only natural. Cotton, wool, hemp, linen. Only an occasional rayon (synthetic but from wood fiber). I have not purchased or worn polyester for over ten years! One of my biggest peeves is altering a gorgeous silk dress or gown to find it lined in polyester or acetate. It defeats the purpose of having a silk garment in the first place! IT MUST BREATHE! VenusElaine "Always put as much effort into your marriage as you do into your wedding."
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From: temom
Date: 08-11-2007, 10:53 PM (26 of 28)
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Beth, that lace is beautiful, and the price BREATHTAKING!!!
Theresa
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From: BethS
Date: 08-12-2007, 12:39 AM (27 of 28)
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Yup, exactly what I was thinking LOL Well, we'll still be just as married in crepe-back satin, and that's what counts Beth |
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From: mommydionne
Date: 08-12-2007, 10:28 AM (28 of 28)
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mmmm... that looks like the lace I used on my dress, it was "only" $100 / m and I bought exactly 1 metre (the base of the dress was taffeta) and when I was done doing the bodice, wrists, appliques I had a little handful of fluff and some loose beads left, I used it ALL!
Jeanette
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