Foust and Mary Jo's

I left my house at 5:30 this morning to trek up to the annual sale at Foust Wholesale Fabrics in Gastonia, NC. One of my friends on the trip told me that she bet it was more fun getting up that early to shop for fabric than to be at the hospital that early for surgery (which was where I was several weeks ago). How right she was!
We made good time on the road--with the traditional stop at Dunkin'Donuts in Rock Hill. I would have to say that in comparison to previous sales at Foust, this one was somewhat of a disappointment--according to those who had been before. However, I WAS impressed by the long rows of bolts and bolts of fabric--many of them quite beautiful--LOTS of rows and lots of bolts. I was sort of overwhelmed and ended up buying only what was on the "by the pound" table--a couple of large pieces of tone-on-tone fabric that will be good for charity quilts.
We did enjoy looking in each other's shopping carts though--as you can see Karen checking out Rita's--and seeing what they were getting.


And Pam was eager to purchase some of this rick rack--until she learned that she would have to purchase the entire reel! You know, there's just so much rick rack any one person can use in a lifetime.
After we finished at Foust, we went to lunch and then moved on to Mary Jo's. Well, there are no pictures of us at Mary Jo's. I was obviously much too busy looking at fabric to WASTE my time taking pictures. I was able to get what I needed to finish out one project and also some fabric for my snowman classes--and looked at a lot of other fabric that will be waiting for me another time. I stopped there and just savored the end of one great day. What better combination could one want--a good time spent friends--laughing, eating and practically wallowing in fabric.