Why didn't someone stop me??
08-11-2013, 09:57 AM
#41
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Well. you better get on with the pickles because the cucumbers will not hold. However, the fabric will still be as beautiful as ever when you are done with the pickles. Meanwhile, while you are making the pickles, you can fantasize about the quilt you will make. Have a great time with both.
08-11-2013, 02:15 PM
#46
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Location: Tavistock, Ontario, Canada
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And Woodstock!
For those wanting to check out Len's Mills in Southern Ontario, they have numerous other things besides fabric and sewing supplies of all types. You could buy everything from yarn, cleaning supplies, socks, underwear (even long johns) towels, sheets, makeup, stationary and garden shovels. Their stores are located in London, Hawksville, Waterloo, Guelph, Cambridge, Port Dover and now a new one in Toronto (I may have missed one or two). You can look them up online and see what you are missing. Each one has it's own flavour and own style of store. Not all stores carry exactly the same things and fabric may come on the bolt, on the roll or sold by the pound. The Waterloo store is an old building by the train tracks, the Hawksville one looks like a steel farm building, the Guelph one is on the end of a strip mall and the Cambridge one is in the old woolen factory. Can you tell that I've checked almost all of them out more than once?
08-11-2013, 02:41 PM
#47
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Location: a small village about 65 miles north of NYC
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the first time I was driving to Indiana from NY, I saw the sign for Yoders Dept store in Shipshewana, 15,000 bolts of fabric! It has been a 'must stop' ever since then, even though it is so not on the way to visit family. Even though I was a stranger from NY and our bill came to several hundred dollars they took my personal check and didn't even ask to see my drivers' license. You MUST check out all the sights in Shipshewana, it's phenomenally interesting. Enjoy your trip.
You did great! Thanks for sharing your story! I'm heading to Indiana in October to spend our 20th anniversary with some wonderful family that we never get to see because we live 9 hrs away. It's in Shipshewana....Amish country. There will be some very fun fabric stores. My husband already knows we will be visiting them and I think he knows that I won't leave with only one fabric! Glad you could hold yourself back. 
. I completely understand the addiction.
. I completely understand the addiction.
08-11-2013, 04:47 PM
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08-12-2013, 02:54 AM
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Location: in front of this dang computer instead of my Bernina!(Naples, Florida)
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Seems like a day of pickling is just the price you had to pay for 10 yards of the perfect fabric. And just think, come winter, you can snuggle under your new quilt and enjoy great pickles.
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