Yard Mart

My uncle's church has an annual sale that they call "Yard Mart". It's normally a really good sale. It lasts 3 days (but you want to get there early on the first day if you want anything worthwhile), and has amazing prices. Last year I got a brand new Christopher & Banks skirt for 50 cents (normally $50), and brand new $99 boots for $1.00, and many other great deals. Jeremy got a suit for $2 (it's the suit he wears for his Billy Smith videos), we got some books, baking dishes, LOTS of stuff, and only spent $15. I was really looking forward to it this year, but it was terrible . Besides not having much stuff, lots of things were way over-priced. And my Mom and I got totally beat up there! I was looking through the clothes rack and people were shoving me out of the way and grabbing things out of my hand. People were ramming into people, some old man bumped into my Mom and turned around and said "Well I hate you too!". Isn't that crazy? And I saw some lady throw a doll at another lady's head. Seriously! I don't think the lady meant to throw the doll at her head, but why was she throwing a doll in such an incredibly crowded place? Dumb plan!
The only thing I found was a corduroy skirt and a recipe book. My Mom found a Saxon physics curriculum. Luke might use it, or we might sell it. She also found a couple other little things, but it really wasn't worth it. We left very disappointed.

After Yard Mart we went to Joanns, where we had terrible service. I wanted to get fabric swatches to send to a friend for her approval (she wants me to make her garb this year), and when I asked for them the lady working there told me that she could only give me a 2" swatch and that it would cost. I asked her how much it would be, but she wouldn't answer me. She wouldn't even check to see how much it would cost! So I went and got my Mom and she came over (which made the employee roll her eyes at me; how rude!) and asked for the price. The lady made a big production about having to check the prices. It ended up being 6 cents a swatch. Why couldn't she have told me that it would be under a quarter? I was concerned that they would want to charge for the smallest amount of fabric they normally cut (1/8 yards). She just didn't want to work with me because I'm not an adult. I can't stand people like that. Seriously, it's dumb. What's the person's problem? They'd save time by dealing with the kid rather than refusing to help them and waiting until a parent comes. It's so annoying.
I think I quit with Joanns; I get terrible service whenever I go there!
I'll be going to Hobby Lobby from now on. In fact, I'll be going to Hobby Lobby's website soon to sign up for their coupons.

We did go to Hobby Lobby today, after I got disgusted with Joanns, and I found another really cute pattern and fabric to go with it.
I think I'm becoming addicted to patterns and fabrics and sewing...

I like the dress in the main picture.

More Patterns!

Joanns was having an absolutely amazing sale today! All Butterick patterns were on sale for 99 cents! A fantastic deal! So, I bought 11 patterns (the limit is 10, but my Mom paid for one separately). Now I just have to purchase all the necessary fabrics...
Our friend Emily Nee will probably be coming later on this month and will let me go through some of her unwanted fabric, so hopefully I'll find some that I can use for some of these patterns!
The first dress I want to make is the first picture I have up; the polka-dot one. In fact, I want to make it look like the pattern picture! I've already priced the polka-dot fabric, and with the 40% off coupons that we regularly get, it should be pretty cheap!
The next pattern is a retro pattern from '47. I think it's really cute! The next one is similar to a dress I have from Kohls. The 4th one I really like; I think I'm going to make the version of it with the cap sleeves (the white one). I think all the aprons are so cute! I can't wait to make some.
The 8th is also a retro pattern from '47, I prefer the one with cap sleeves. And the penultimate pattern (the 1st one in the last row) is another retro pattern from '52. I originally didn't care for the pattern, but after I saw the idea of it I started to really like it. It's a wrap dress, and the sides are open. Once you put it on you take the excess skirt from the back and it wraps around and buttons in front of you. I think it's really neat!
I have a pattern that we already had at home, it's for a dress and jacket. The jacket should work with most of sort sleeve dresses, so I'll make it.
Now, the total for this patterns without the sale price would have been $174 before tax. I spent less than $12! I love sales!
You can click on any of the images to see the website for them.

Now time to get sewing....

Patterns!

I bought two patterns today:

http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v2903-products-4894.php?page_id=850

http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v1266-products-3946.php?page_id=265

There was another dress pattern that I really wanted, but sadly Joanns didn't have it in stock.


There's several other dress patterns I want to purchase in a few weeks (when they'll be on sale for super cheap), and hopefully I'll make them for this summer!