These people have pegged me. I am good at ignoring commercials. I don't watch TV. At this point in my life I don't splurge on glossy mags. I rarely look at the endless emails I get from companies, but I do look at Global Fabrics. I enjoy the fun quirkiness of it and I have been sucked in.
When I saw this hot pink leather in an email I had to have it. This was way out of my comfort zone at the time. I begged Global Fabrics to send it down to Dunedin. I agreed to pay if they had to send it back.
When it arrived we meticulously schemed about how to lay out the Donna Karan skirt I wanted to sew out of it, to see if we could get it out of the piece.
For over a year they would regularly ask me if I had made the skirt. "Not yet," I would answer. It was my interview with the Otago Polytechnic Fashion School Director that got me to cut into it.
If not now when, I said to myself?
The small window I had just forced me to go fast and not stop to fret. I was having fun. Leather is easy I learned.
Well when I spied this orange lace I wanted to use it, but orange is not my color. I even planned to bring a couple of yards of the black with me. But when I went in to buy it someone had already bought the whole bolt. Ugh!
But remember when Global Fabrics changed the name to "The Fabric Store" it was because they went "Global".
I still don't get it guys.
Well I looked on line and the new LA store had the lace in their gallery, so on a whim I called and they still had it in stock. I ordered three yards of the black and before it was shipped I added two yards of the orange.
You want to know don't you?
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