Tuesday, January 26, 2010

JoAnn fabric coupon

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Fabric stores.  The one retail outlet in the world that bores me to tears.  Hate the smell too.  However, Mother Superior will spend hours in them, and Jo-Ann fabrics is her shop of choice. Have at it if you're into sewing, or buy cheap fabric to wrap gifts with.  You're welcome.

1/26/2010 11:22:00 AM 6 Comments

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Anonymous said...

My bride is an upholsterer. She uses JoAnns the way Hank Hill uses Megalomart.
Tim

1/26/10, 11:32 AM
Anonymous said...

My mother does art quilts (she's setting quilting up as her retirement career); JoAnn's fabrics -- at least, in her experience -- doesn't measure yards correctly (I don't get what she means by this, but apparently they measure the wrong side of the fabric, which can shorted a yard of fabric by an inch or two).

Thankfully, I only rarely (typically around Christmas-time) have to go shopping with her at all, much less in fabric stores. They bore me to tears, as well.

Then again, I always experience a sense of wonder when my mom spends $5-10K on a sewing machine that has USB ports, a CD rom drive, and runs on Microsoft Artista (the Bernina Sewing equivalent of Microsoft Windows). And that said sewing machine is nothing compared to the $25,000 long-arm quilter my sister-in-law purchased.

So I suppose any way to save money in sewing is a good thing, even if it means getting shorted a few inches on the yard.

1/26/10, 2:53 PM
Anonymous said...

Rodger , they have a good selection of scissors there.
RAK

1/26/10, 3:05 PM
Gayle Miller said...

I've concluded that I am officially a redneck. There are FIVE Wal-Marts and THREE Targets within 20 minutes of my home here in Central Virginia! AND, my sister has two non-functional cars sitting in her driveway!

1/26/10, 5:14 PM
DougM said...

Okay, but I made all the canvas work for a boat I used to live on. Repaired sails, too. Learn how to use a sewing machine and hand-sew grommets and stuff — heck, a guy's gotta know how to operate machinery an' power tools, dun'e? You gonna admit that wimmin can operate a machine that you can't?
(What? Nope, never made any clothes. Why d'ya ask?)

1/26/10, 8:17 PM
Anonymous said...

A while back, the headliner was falling down in my car so I went to the auto parts store and bought a ten dollar spray can of glue just for the purpose. It didn't even pretend to work. Went back bought another can, read the instructions and tried again. Same results. Went to Jo-Ann Fabrics and bought a four dollar package of screw pins. They're like thumb tacks with extra long pins bent like a cork screw. I remember them used for holding doilies in place on the upholstery. After that, I had a headliner-free view of the road. Don't know any other place that sells screw pins.
GrinfilledCelt

1/27/10, 2:43 AM

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