Get the Right Fabrics

Getting the necessary fabrics can be hard, and even when you know where to look it can still be insanely difficult. At certain stores, Spotlight for example, you can find some really good materials amidst the completely cruddy. Spotlight is a fabulous store for most of your other craft and homeware needs, but many of the fabrics leave much to be desired. In the large stores you really have to exercise your patience and be in a good frame of mind if you're hoping to leave with your sanity intact. Another store which is much smaller than Spotlight but a much better percentage of good fabrics is Calico and Ivy. I believe that it's originally a Brittish store but we're lucky enough to have a few south of the equator. Calico and Ivy not only sells fabby materials, but also many how-to sewing and knitting books, a selection of buttons, essential tools-of-the-trade and even some ready-made scarves, quilts and little sewn critters. While i'm sure that there are a large amount of other good stores to find fabrics, these are the only ones i use. Another option that I'd like to explore though is the internet. If you go into eBay there're limitless amounts of secondhand, new, and even commercially sold materials for very reasonable prices. Before you go buying heaps of fabrics, make sure you have a pattern. That way you won't buy materials that end up getting lost amidst the other materials only to be recovered years later and finding that your tastes have completely changed and what you once loved is now completely ugly. Wish you luck.