Janet and I needed some work supplies and took a trip down to the sketchy area of Dallas where all the wholesale & warehouse shopping is for fashion stuff. (It is not the end of town you want to be in after everything closes at 4:30pm!) We went to 3 bead stores and 2 fabric places.
The first bead store was the best, and we bought most of what was on our list there. It was probably 6 aisles wide - first aisle we started on is pictured. It's definitely the kind of store you need to have a list to search for or you'll just want to buy everything!
We found some sew-on rhinestones in colors we needed at one of the other bead shops, but they were much smaller stores and seemed to be stocked with mostly glue-on stuff.
We didn't need any fabric, but we wanted to see what had come back to that street because a tornado hit most of the fabric warehouses back in October 2019. And then the best one of the bunch (and only one that didn't have tornado damage), decided to close when all the lockdowns started a few months later.
It was nice to see at least 4 or 5 of the fabric places are still there. I only thought to take one photo at the first one we went to.
#lifeasacostumer
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
