Gail McGlamery

Week 13: 11/23/09 -  This fabric came to me through my twitter account.  Though I don’t twitter that much, people still find me from time to time and follow me.  Periodically, I go through and re-follow some of them and find some interesting  people and businesses.  One was Fabric Fanatics .  They offer group orders of designer fabrics at prices below normal retail.  Shipping seems fair and even more economical when you order up to 5 yards.  I registered with their site to be able to view fabrics and see how they worked.  About two weeks ago I found a particular print I really liked at less than $6 per yard and decided I’d place an order to see how long it took to receive, if the fabric was what I expected, and just decide if this was an option for me to order high quality fabric.

So I ordered 1 yard and it arrived this week.  It is this lovely Pop Garden print by Heather Bailey for Free Spirit Fabrics.   To commemorate what I realized was my first online ordering of fabric I thought I’d cut a piece and make it my journal quilt.  I also wasn’t feeling very creative and decided to just use white thread to roughly outline some of the shapes.  Cutting into it for my journal quilt was actually good for me because I sometimes have the habit of admiring fabrics without the courage to cut into them and use them up.

Would I order from them again?  Yes, I think so, but I’d probably order more to make the shipping cost more economical.  It is the same for between 1 and 5 yards.  I also learned a lesson on this one.  It didn’t occur to me to ask about the size of the pattern and repeat, and while I expected a small to medium size repeat, this one is quite large.