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Discount Fabric Store Heaven x 2!

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I’ll tell you what… I lose my marbles in a good fabric store. I’m not going to hide the fact that I can spend hours looking around… imagining all of the sewing and craft opportunities! Well, lucky for me, my recent trip to California yielded not one but TWO fabulous gems of fabric stores that I just have to tell y’all about!

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Our first stop was at Fabric Barn in Long Beach. I had heard about this place from another blogger and have been wanting to go for quite some time. You know how hole in the wall restaurants always turn out to have the best food at the cheapest prices… well apply that principle to a fabric store. The Fabric Barn is the quintessential hole in the wall store.

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Don’t judge a book by it’s cover…

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Aisles and aisles of every kind of trim imaginable.

Ric Rac.

Pom Poms.

Lace.

Ribbons.

Ruffles.

Frills.

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And the best part? Everything is at wholesale prices…but open to the public. No minimums. All the goodness you want at wholesale prices. Ric Rac was like $2.00 for 25 yards! All sorts of colors, too!

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There are ribbons and lace by the spools and also cut-by-the-yard. Fabulous.

I just loved the fact that the checker bagged all of my loot in a trash bag, too. haha

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Yes. I’m serious. A trash bag. Peek-a-boo. Do you see my goodies? :)

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Next,  we headed to a familiar old fabric store a few cities away in Anaheim…

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I remember going to M & L Fabrics with my Mom all of the time when I was a kid. We would spend hours and hours bored out of our minds while my mom shopped for fabric. I haven’t been back there in almost 20 years… but I will tell you what… this time around I was anything but bored. ;)

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M & L is another one of those hole-in-the-wall-hasn’t-been-remodeled-since-1984 type stores. But don’t let that fool you for what is inside…

21Aisles and aisles of fabric stacked to kingdom come. Of course my mom is losing her marbles with all of the fabric at the end of this aisle. ;) I’m sure she is reminiscing all her memories of shopping here when she used to have her own sewing business while we were growing up. Hence, why we were all dragged to M & L as kids. We were forced to develop our own coping mechanisms to battle the boredom…

22…which is why this section brought back a flood of memories for me! My sister and I used to find a single pin on the floor (safety first, right?) and we would collect the fallen sequins that fell off the fabric and onto the ground and put them on our pins. Whoever left with the most sequins won. You would never believe how many sparkly sequins you can find on a fabric store floor. Yeah. Coping mechanism.

But not anymore! I was searching those stacks of fabric with the best of them. ;)

20But do they have good deals on fabric, you ask.

Yes. Yes they do.

Does $1.99 a yard mean anything to you?

It meant something to me! haha

There are probably 6 or 7 double sided aisles filled with $1.99 fabric.

Not to mention the rest of store with everything from denim to oil cloth to name brand fabrics (like Moda and Alexander Henry).

A day full of fabric fun with my mom… needless to say, I was in heaven. :)

Seriously, if you are ever in Southern California… these two stores are worth the visit and are definitely worth the prices!!

Happy Shopping!

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January 5th, 2010 |

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