Fabric Shopping Marathon

“Can you really shop for fabric for four hours?” my husband asked me incredulously.

Obviously he thought he was dealing with an amateur. And we weren’t talking about just any fabric shop; this was Mary Jo’s Cloth store in Gastonia, NC. I hope you’ve been there. If you haven’t, make a date to do it.

Mary Jo’s is a huge fabric superstore that offers quilting, garment, upholstry, wedding, and any other kind of fabric you can think of at super low prices. The average price I paid for a yard of quilting fabric was $5.39 a yard. So that’s exactly what I did. I bought long (thanks to Mary Ellen) and bought a yard of everything. You never know when you’ll need it.

We had traveled to the N.C./S.C. border for a wedding of some friends. And I just had to make a stop at Mary Jo’s, while my older son stopped by Barnes and Nobles for the latest Harry Potter. Twenty-four hours later, he finished the book. I won’t spoil the end for you, but he loved it.