Many years ago I took a test in Threads magazine designed to help people make the most of the fabric they owned. They asked pertinent questions as to how much fabric you owned, where you kept(or stashed)it, how many projects you had going at any one time, and how much sewing related equipment you owned. They also asked impertinent questions like have you ever sneaked fabric in under cover of darkness (one of my customers said NO, her girls lived right down the street) and have you ever been threatened with divorce if you buy one more yard of fabric? At the end there was a score key and my score said "open your own fabric store"-so I did-on Ebay.

Actually I began by (gulp!) selling off my stash because someone had the idiotic notion that he should be able to put his CAR in the garage (how silly), but a funny thing happened on the way to the garage sale-people really liked my sense of style in fabric. I specialize in FUN fabric. I once had a head nurse tell me I had the loudest, rowdiest, most obnoxious scrubs she had ever seen, and since I had made them all with fabric from my stash I said happily "thanx". I got reprimanded but it was soooo much fun to see the look on her face. Most of my fabric is just that; bright, colorful, cheerful and FUN. I work in geriatrics for pete's sake. The old people all love my scrubs and white uniforms are so boring, and so sanitary. Horsefeathers!

So anyway I have begun in earnest to establish a fabric store. I have established wholesale contacts and I am committed (my kids think I SHOULD be committed but what do kids know) to bringing my customers the best fabric I can find at the most reasonable prices possable while offering quality customer service; and if my feedback is any indication I have done just that so far. I have met some real great people and am having the time of my life. I have discovered that, for me, like Garfield, the fun is in the getting, not the having. I found I love buying and selling fabric. I don't have to keep it, the fun is in the finding things that I think my customers will like. So keep checking the store and my auctions, I promise you, you won't be disappointed.

At this point I should include a few words on how I operate. In the fabric world there is a lot more to be bought than just yardage. What I do is buy fabric in all kinds of configurations. Obviously I buy and sell yardage, that is the backbone of my business, but there are other things out there and although I am only a wannabee, I tend to shop with quilters in mind. I was told once that quilters don want a lot of fabric (liar, liar, pants on fire, we all want a lot of fabric), they want a lot of little pieces of fabric and that what I have been able to find.

Headers, or salesman samples, "short" cuts (10 cents an inch), pounds of pieces, bundles are just a few of the offbeat ways I buy fabric which explains why you will find pieces at 1.8 or or 2.3, or 4.6 yards. I sells m the way I buys m. I look for seconds, closeouts and odd configurations to bring my customers as wide a variety of ways of buying fabric as I can. And then I stuff as much as I can into priority envelopes to save you on shipping.