Originally Posted by
Evie
I used to shop at Michael Levine's back in the day when I sewed clothing. Since I no longer shop for fashion fabrics, haven't been to L.A.'s garment district in ages. The traffic and crowds make for (me) a not-so-pleasant experience.
It still is a fantastic place to shop for a huge variety of regular non quilting fabric selections. Many a time I go for those sort of fabrics. My purpose here is to tease and tantalized all of you for a "quilt shop" experience within a huge warehouse, featuring all sort of possible patchwork and applique projects with all sort of the finest quilt shop level fabrics. I take public transportation down there & back and leave the car at home. Like most other people do in other places.
Originally Posted by
Painiacs
Wow, never knew there were places, could be dangerous to shop there! I'd wind up with tons!!
It smells far worse odor-wise (don't want to go there telling you what sort of odor it is) before being dangerous. I arrive before mid-afternoon, always gone before dark! Watch out for speeding delivery bikes on sidewalks, & distracted drivers!
Originally Posted by
llong0233
What a fun and informative idea. Thanks very much for sharing this. Love the way you challenged us to decide what it was! You are very lucky to have local access to such a store. Thanks again for lightening the day.
You can have very close to the same experience (fabric-wise) by online ordering if you cannot come over here. I'm sure people close by in the garment/fashion district ship what they want since they are too busy working in their studios & workrooms to go physically to this fabric store even a short distance away.
Last edited by Iona D.; 05-09-2017 at 05:18 PM.