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We had House of Fabrics and Cloth World. That was in Riverside, California.
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My Grandmother made pillow cases and crocheted around them and the fabric had to come from Penny's. I would buy remnants at the department stores to make my formals since the fabric was always discounted more than 50%. I did shop House of Fabrics for fabric for my kids clothes and the left overs from all of those found there way into quilts.
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I remember House of Fabrics and SoFro! Also had Fenstmacher's, which was a favorite of my mom's. We shopped at Wurzburgs in the downtown area of Grand Rapids too. Great memories!
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Yes please! We live 1 hour from the nearest town, we had a JoAnn's and House of Fabrics... they closed and I was there for their sale. It's so sad when stores close and nothing replaces it. Our JoAnn's is dinky and there are no quilting store here. I have to go the other way 1 hour and there's a JoAnn's (still small) But there's LQS there so it's all good.
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Originally Posted by SusieQOH
(Post 8272168)
I think it was called So-Fro in Ohio. I used to shop there when my kids were little.
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Totally miss dedicated fabric stores!
I'm 54 and my first job was at House of Fabrics back in the 80s! It was at the Sunnyvale Mall (which no longer exists unfortunately - that used to be the place to go when we cut school!) - now you have places like Michaels and Walmart that sell fabric. Unless you go to places like Fabmo that's an all-volunteer nonprofit that rescues discontinued designer fabric and then makes them available to the public for super discounted prices and from what I hear, if you volunteer, you get free fabric!
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welcome to this old thread, and quiltingboard, Trainerchick!
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Originally Posted by sandy l
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Yep, and I worked for House of Fabrics/So-Fro, and also Singer.
i remember all the department stores having fabric departments. I grew up around Toledo, Ohio, so that would have been Penneys, Lamson's, LaSalles ... even Sears |
Ahhhh .... Newberrys!
Can't forget Thriftys! But perhaps that's getting off the topic of fabric and going down the rabbit hole of nostalgia in general lol!
Originally Posted by gillyo
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So many great memories! I was reading this thread and just remembered something I'd forgotten. I was no more than seven when the Newberry's store in our town was closing. They had a table full of bolts and bolts of fabric that were on clearance. My mom was looking through them for fabric to make clothes for me, (I had the cutest clothes at school, all handmade by my mom). I can still picture those fabrics and remember how much I wanted all of them.
I recently asked my mom if she remembered the same thing but all she could remember was the popcorn in the long skinny bags they sold there. |
My favorite store was Woolworth's. Could go there and shop; have lunch and talk to everyone that was there to buy huck toweling and other craft fabrics. Momma bought most of her quilting fabrics there. Ours was in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was the largest fabric store that we ever went to back in the day. Momma was able to get a twin bed size of cotton batting for $3. When she quilted the quilts the unquilted areas puffed up. Those quilts were the warmest ones. We used them all winter long for 8-10 years before they started to loose their puffiness.
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