March 9
Craft & Fabric Stores
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Every Saturday, I share my weekly Artist Date. This week, I went to a local craft & fabric store.
According to Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, “The Artist Date is a once-weekly, festive, solo expedition to explore something that interests you. The Artist Date need not be overtly “artistic” — think mischief more than mastery. Artist Dates fire up the imagination. They spark whimsy. They encourage play. Since art is about the play of ideas, they feed our creative work by replenishing our inner well of images and inspiration. When choosing an Artist Date, it is good to ask yourself, “what sounds fun?” — and then allow yourself to try it.”
If the purpose of the Artist Date is to fire up the imagination, a visit to a craft & fabric store will have you blazing.
In fact, if you have the crafter-quilter-sewer-knitter-crocheter-scrapbooker-ad infinitum gene, you may want to enter with caution.
This year, since I’m spending the year trying NOT to indulge my every creative impulse and FOCUS on painting and very specific projects, I have “rules” I follow.
When I go into a craft & fabric store, I allow myself to wander the aisles and dream of all the things I’d love to make if I had 30-hour-days, unlimited money and lived to be 153-years-old, but I am only allow to get what’s on my list…period. Focus hurts.
I love looking in craft stores as much as I love going to book stores.
I am JUST THE SAME in craft stores. In fact, it’s probably just as well we only have Hobbycraft in my city, and precious little else. We don’t even have a fabric/haberdashery store anymore, and I bemoan its loss frequently.
This one looks wonderful, and I wish I could wander round it with you!
LOL…You and I are so much alike. Joanns is a bad bad store for me. I have to totally focus on why I’m there when I go. Last time, I left with one or two things I may or may not use. I vote for the 30 hour day, that would be awesome!!
Lovely fabrics. Just think of all the things that could be made….:)
Sue…You are naughty and a troublemaker (ha).
How how I love fabric and thread!!!! I have tons of it too!!! I wish things were different!!! You enjoy while you can Sweetheart!!!
I have heard of a few blogging sewists talking about getting fabric at Joannes. You are so lucky to have so much choice over there – here there is nothing, it is the internet or some scratchy nylon rubbish you wouldn’t be seen dead in.
Lynne x
Unless there’s an incredible bargain. Then the list goes out the window.
XXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Roxy
I like to wander through the aisles too. I love that photograph with all the colors of fabric rolls!
I love craft stores!
Nola
Joann’s, Hobby Lobby, Michael’s, etc., those places were specially designed to distance me from my money. There’s no end to the ideas!
I have all 3 of those stores in close proximity to me. It’s a problem!
I LOVE wandering the isles of craft stores! THere are so many things to look at, to think and read about.
I could get lost in a fabric store! It is a seriously dangerous place for me to enter! The possibilities go into overload in my head.
Looks like a great fabric store. I’d love to see what you’d be able to come up with, but painting is just as neat! 😀
Haberdasheries and hardware stores. I love them both! Even the coloured threads are making me happy. Focus hurts indeed.