Because I Need Another Stash Like I Need a Hole in My Head
i was going to write a "things i like monday" post monday because over the weekend i came up with several things that i liked but then monday came along and then passed and then tuesday came along and then passed and then today started and it's no longer monday so a post listing the things i like would be ok but then it would be "things i like wednesday" and not "things i like monday." and i hardly have the energy to write a post about "things i like" anyway. why is it that it's so much easier to write a post about things i don't like? what does that say about me?
but enough with the whining...
1. i like that i'm close enough to going away on vacation to actually start counting down the days until i go on vacation. i don't like to get excited way in advance (one of my nieces has been counting down the days until vacation since january!) because there's potentially so much unpleasantness to get through until that first day of vacation. but i can start counting down now. 9 MORE DAYS!!! and think about packing.
2. i like shopping for fabric. last thursday, stitchy (dude, update the blog will you?) and i met at The Fabric Place for some notion shopping. (is there anything more gratifying than shopping for notions? remember when you could buy notions at woolworths? remember when there WERE woolworths?) i got there early. walked right by the yarn department (if you've seen my yarn stash on ravelry you know i had no business being there anyway) and attacked the 50 cent (no, not the rapper) fabric scrap table. by the time stitchy had found me, i had dug a hole in the huge pile and was practically crawling into it to get the good stuff at the bottom. it was madness.
i found toile and fabric with chickens. i like chickens. and plaids and cute fabric with little flowers. all for 50 cents a piece! and no, i don't really sew. well not beyond what i learned in 7th grade home ec. this discrepancy (is this the word i want here?) will need to be dealt with.
3. did i mention i liked chickens?
4. and last night i got to knit with ben and her adorable daughter ... well her daughter didn't knit but she did her best to gross us out by showing us pictures of sharks. i don't like sharks. but i do like little girls who like shark books.
love the fabric - but you are right, it is a slippery slope when it comes to fabric. Stashes just start as innocently as yarn ones do...and then they take over! ;-)
Posted by: heather | June 19, 2007 at 06:06 PM
I like chickens, too. There is no way that I could pass up fabric with chickens. :)
Posted by: Laura | June 18, 2007 at 06:43 AM
My little guy is only four but he'd have a major crush on Ben's daughter :-) He is so into sharks and is convinced that there isn't a girl out there who likes them too (even though I love them)
I have started a fabric stash and I can't sew for sh*t! Nice haul ;-)
Posted by: SpiderWomanKnits | June 15, 2007 at 12:38 AM
Must seek out 50-cent bin! I didn't know such things existed in the fabric world!
Posted by: pamela wynne | June 14, 2007 at 11:15 PM
I just read your 100 things and had to say that I too use the subjunctive tense even in English. For me it's the legacy of h.s. Spanish. "...I’d be a much happier person if I weren’t..." That sentence made me smile -- I mentally correct the verb every time I read "...if xxx was..."
Posted by: kmkat | June 14, 2007 at 03:54 PM
When I was a kid there was a Woolworth's in the center of Concord, where I grew up. (Concord, MA. It hadn't yet tarted itself up for the yuppies in those days.) You could buy actual wool yarn there, and I did, and made my first scarf from it. A 4-oz skein cost a dollar. You could buy construction paper and glue and crayons and markers, and candy of various kinds, and trashy paperback novels. A lunch counter ran along one whole wall. Ah, nostalgia.
I love Fabric Place too. You are a stronger woman by far than I: there's no way I could go in there without buying any yarn. And every time I go into Joann's I end up buying fabric, even though I can't sew either. Sewing machines are mysterious beasts that are out to get me.
Posted by: Lucia | June 14, 2007 at 02:27 PM
Love the fabric!
Posted by: JessaLu | June 14, 2007 at 02:21 PM
Great fabric finds! And thank you for clarifying that you didn't attack the rapper! I was confused! ;)
Posted by: Scribbles & Bits | June 14, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Nice finds...I am a sucker for a good fabric print as well, I DO sew, but not often enough to justify buying as much fabric as I do.
Posted by: Tracey | June 14, 2007 at 11:07 AM
That chicken fabric *rocks*. Where are you going on vacation?
Posted by: Amy | June 14, 2007 at 10:24 AM
Your new fabric is pretty! I've just joined the Use What You Have Challenge so no new fabric for me. Hum, its barely started and I'm almost having withdrawal.
Posted by: Felicia | June 14, 2007 at 06:00 AM
Pretty fabric. Fabric could definitely be a whole nother stash, which just can't happen for me. Going anywhere fun on vacation?
Posted by: Wanda | June 13, 2007 at 10:20 PM
Maddie liked you too, and was greatly amused by your fish story. We HAD to go back and get that freaky book today....((shudder))
Posted by: benedetta | June 13, 2007 at 09:37 PM
Ya know, life hasn't been the same since Woolworths went away. You did a great job with the fabric. While you may not need another stash, at least, this one will not take up lots of room. ;^)
Posted by: Cookie | June 13, 2007 at 02:50 PM
Need? We're well past need. IDNI,IJWI (i don't need it, i just want it). Not a particularly good acronym, huh? But I likee.
Posted by: cyn | June 13, 2007 at 02:14 PM
I miss Woolworth's, too. And Fabric Place? Remember when there was only one in downtown Framingham, and it was called...The Sportswear Store? Wow, that goes back a ways. I was their macrame instructor back in the late 70's. Wow, talk about good times. :) And, yeah, nothing like shopping for notions.
Posted by: Dave Daniels | June 13, 2007 at 02:06 PM
I'd be tempted by those chickens too. ;-)
Ah, Woolworth's. I do miss the one in Downtown Crossing...
Posted by: Beth S. | June 13, 2007 at 01:26 PM
What is this 'NEED' word you speak of? I do not think I understand?
Posted by: Kellee | June 13, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Sandy might fight you for that chicken fabric!
My grandmother and I used to shop for notions at Malcolmson's Dime Store on Main Street in Cannelton, Indiana. It was a quaint as it sounds and a treasure trove to a little girl who could barely see over the counters. Good times.
Posted by: elizabeth | June 13, 2007 at 12:14 PM
PS- Your yarn stash is killing me.
PPS- I miss Woolworths. I feel like there was still one in Oak Park, but I'm sure I'm wrong about that.
Posted by: Cathi | June 13, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Lovely fabrics. I really, really miss Woolworth's. I used to love going to the one in Downtown Crossing and the one in Coolidge Corner. My sister used to work at a Woolworth's that had a little restaurant.
Posted by: Kathode Ray Tube | June 13, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Toile! I love toile!
I'm so happy to see your post- for some reason, in my mind you are someone that should post at least every other day, and when you don't, I worry about you. Because apparently I need to make things up to worry about.
Posted by: Cathi | June 13, 2007 at 11:43 AM
You did a very good job of fabric shopping! There is very little good that can be said about Monday, anyway.
Posted by: margene | June 13, 2007 at 11:41 AM