suzm

I think Cloth World also had them.

alapetitechaise

The first clothing item I made was a shirtwaist dress made in high school home ec class. It was very small blue flowers on while and the fabric came from Woolworth's. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

bodie358

Mom took me in the summer every year before school to JC Penney to pick out patterns and fabric for the coming year. They had those meters. My mother never quilted but she could sew beautiful garments! She was also the fastest knitter you ever saw - her fingers flew. Gosh, I miss her so.

jbj137

I remember buying cloth and patterns for my eighth grade Home Ec. project.
Pattern was $ 0.29
Material was $ 0.79 a yard
It was a big print blue & white floral.
Had to walk across the stage at Assembly to show it.
HAPPY MEMORIES.
J J

Lyncat

The first fabric I picked out was for doll clothes. We had a store called S.A.S. in Phoenix that was filled with fabric that was overstock from factories, and was sold by the pound. You had to treasure hunt through large boxes of fabrics, all different sized pieces (small to many yards long). They had big barrels of buttons that were sold by the cupful, trim that was very inexpensive. The women who worked there had a European accent and would always take you to task if you were a child who wandered away from grandma. I loved going there. The best part is, the store is still there, so I have been shopping there for at least 45 years.

eparys

My first dress was a blouson made from fabric purchased from Garrs in Providence RI. I was in HS and took a sewing class at the local Singer store.

Garrs was a dark dreary place. Little drawers all over the wall filled with wonderful buttons, findings, hooks and eyes . . . You name it they had it. In the back was the cutting table and on it was the fabric meter!! Wonderful lace and bridal fabric was on the right in front and cottons and wools were further back.

Yup saw one of those meters at Joanns recently - they were using it for batting. I just laughed and said to the gal - "you are not old enough to remember that those were all they used to measure fabric" - she just gave me a real stupid look :roll: :roll:


In later years there was a Weintraubs in Warwick RI - they were there untill the 80. I bought great carter overstock cotton knit from there!!

Olivia

I remember Mrs. Dean at the Fabric Store. Loved when I got a quarter and went over to buy a yard of cotton, then home to sew a new skirt. Now we are paying upward of $12 per yard. O'how I long for the old days.

Stitchnripper

I remember the meters and our town had a store where we bought "material". I still have the apron I made in sixth grade, from "material" from that store, on the school's treadle machine.

charlaraye

My mom used to buy fabric at Calverts in Augusta, KS, then at either TG&Y or JC Penney in Wichita, KS. This was back in 60's and 70's. When she died, foundtons of fabric that she never got around to using. I now have and slowly making use of it.

athenagwis

Wow Martin's .... it's so funny to see someone in the same state as me!! :) I love Martin's, I never saw it when it was in the castle building, but I have gone there many times over the past 10 years. They have actually downsized A LOT and moved buildings again I think.

Rachel