Rachelcb80

I love that green dress in a couple of the pictures.

If most people have no knowledge of quilting, I can see why your fabric selection would be so slim. Good thing you have family and friends in the states that you can count on to bring you fabrics from time to time.

grammyto2

Sorry your selection is so limited. Thanks for sharing, We need to count our blessings for sure.

ga447

I love the photos, thank you for posting. My Mother-in-law is from Poland and she is the best seamstress. She is 85 from Krakow and lives in the states. She taught me to sew.

plainjane

I LOVED seeing all the fabric in this store. Since I sew apparel also - loved the woolens!

justflyingin

Long story. My dh has a PhD in the Old Testament (Bible) and came here in October, 1994 to be a professor in a seminary that was starting here. Because of communism and the lack of Bible teaching, the churches were asking for help in this area.

That's what got us here.

Now, we are starting a (Baptist) church near Warsaw and run a charitable organization. Sometimes my husband travels to other countries, like the Ukraine to teach for short segments--like summer school classes. He's heading to another country in the spring to teach pastors from closed countries (countries where people get in trouble for believing or even having a Bible.) I don't want to be too specific because of the topic... A year from now he is invited to go to Kenya to teach for a couple of weeks. They said I am invited too....:)

So, in spite of the fact that we don't have many cottons here...don't feel sorry for me. Life is really much simpler here. We don't have zillions of choices of cold cereals (between 10-15) or it doesn't take a long time to figure out which kind of dental floss you want or which toothbrush to buy--we don't have that kind of choice. In one sense it is bad, but on the other hand, buying soda pop is easy...if you want diet you buy Diet Coke or Pepsi or diet generic soda. We don't have Diet Sprite, 7-up, Mt. Dew, etc.

You get used to fewer choices and learn to live with it. On the other hand, my kids can walk home from school by themselves-- my 16-year-old goes out with her friend, another 16-year-old on their bikes and just hang around in the woods, etc. It is more like life used to be in the 50's in the states.

So, my lack of choices of cottons is a small price. It forces me to be creative and use ingenuity. I do cut up old cotton woven clothes, though. :)

I bought flannel PJs through the course of a solid year--at the used clothing store. I found patterns I liked and bought the bottoms and tops separately--for 60cents a piece. At the end of the year, I cut them all up and then decided to see what I had. I had enough to make 7 flannel rag quilts.

CGail

Very interesting. It is always good to see how others live. Thanks. - Cynthia

plainjane

I love to hear about your creativity due to lack of fabrics!

SherryCat

May God Bless You!!

Grandma Peg

Thanks for sharing.

Lori S

It could also be seersucker.