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magidI came back from Portland last Thursday night to avoid red-eyes, Shabbat issues, and jet-lag at work. This gave me a bonus: the chance to shop at Malden Mills. Not just shop in their regular store, but go to their semi-annual fleece sale. It's always a two-day sale, with hours on Shabbat that are open to the public, and hours on Friday open to members only. I already had the day off, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
electrictruffle transferred his membership to me (thank you again!), so I could experience the glories of the sale.
I went into the warehouse (it's not in the regular shop next door), upstairs, and into a huge space. There were aisles of big boxes on the floor on the left with pieces (all shapes, sizes, and patterns), while on the right there were dollies with rolls of fleece. At the end of the boxes were the technical fabrics, pieces, then rolls. At the far end there was a bunch of Power Dry and other black fleeces, which were on special sale ($2/lb). (Other fleece was $3.50 for solids, $4.50 for patterns (mostly gone by the time I got there 15 minutes late), and $6.50 for technicals, which includes a lot of interesting stuff.)
Electrictruffle had also made me a cheatbook, sewing together scraps of different kinds of fleece with information about each kind. I kept pulling it out of my pocket to compare to what caught my eye, to distinguish among the different types (mostly technicals, here; the regular fleece is fairly easy to figure out). It was a bit overwhelming, even so.
I finally located a trolley and started gathering, but nothing like most of the people there, who were concentrating on the hunt. It's a bit manic, people filling huge trolleys with rolls of fleece. Huge amounts of fleece. Tons of fleece. Well, not literal tons, I don't think, but a heck of a lot: I saw someone's minivan stacked floor to ceiling with rolls of fleece (behind the driver area, that is). I didn't fill my trolley by any means (I didn't have to pay attention to packing strategies, for instance :-), and I still spent $*mumblemumble*.
Which means I really do have to get a sewing machine. (And a table to put it on. And sewing supplies. And figure out patterns. But I'll focus on the sewing machine first :-)
electrictruffle transferred his membership to me (thank you again!), so I could experience the glories of the sale. I went into the warehouse (it's not in the regular shop next door), upstairs, and into a huge space. There were aisles of big boxes on the floor on the left with pieces (all shapes, sizes, and patterns), while on the right there were dollies with rolls of fleece. At the end of the boxes were the technical fabrics, pieces, then rolls. At the far end there was a bunch of Power Dry and other black fleeces, which were on special sale ($2/lb). (Other fleece was $3.50 for solids, $4.50 for patterns (mostly gone by the time I got there 15 minutes late), and $6.50 for technicals, which includes a lot of interesting stuff.)
Electrictruffle had also made me a cheatbook, sewing together scraps of different kinds of fleece with information about each kind. I kept pulling it out of my pocket to compare to what caught my eye, to distinguish among the different types (mostly technicals, here; the regular fleece is fairly easy to figure out). It was a bit overwhelming, even so.
I finally located a trolley and started gathering, but nothing like most of the people there, who were concentrating on the hunt. It's a bit manic, people filling huge trolleys with rolls of fleece. Huge amounts of fleece. Tons of fleece. Well, not literal tons, I don't think, but a heck of a lot: I saw someone's minivan stacked floor to ceiling with rolls of fleece (behind the driver area, that is). I didn't fill my trolley by any means (I didn't have to pay attention to packing strategies, for instance :-), and I still spent $*mumblemumble*.
Which means I really do have to get a sewing machine. (And a table to put it on. And sewing supplies. And figure out patterns. But I'll focus on the sewing machine first :-)