Wednesday, March 12, 2008

every depressing T station has a discount fabric store a block away

If only that were true. But really, Sewfisticated Fabrics makes up for the perpetually dismal, dinky little station at the end of the most annoying of Beantown's subway lines. Also, walking to the store I got to pass a business called "Superior Nut Co." I don't know if they are metal nuts or the food kind of nuts or some other kind of nut I haven't thought of, but I do know that they are superior.

Sewfisticated sells a variety of discount fabrics and notions: cottons for $2-3/yard, great upholstery stuff for $5.99, wool suiting, and some lovely silks that are actually made of silk (seriously, what is up with selling fabric called 'silk de chine' that is not, in fact, silk? you need to call that shit 'acrylique de chine.') I didn't find some of my holy grails of discount fabric shopping (100% cotton batiste, dotted swiss, aforementioned silk de chine made from silk), but the lovely things I did find more than made up for it. I even found myself encountering an entire wall of stretch polyester knits in an array of prints and thinking, "That's an impressive selection of poly knits" instead of "EWWWWW." Well, maybe I thought both, but ambivalence is a very generous attitude when it comes to poly knits.

I left with three different cotton prints to make napkins and place mats for my sister's birthday, plus a zipper for the sloper I promised myself I would work on this week.

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