Finally a Fabric Store

Sometimes Nate has to go do something in another area of Manila and instead of staying at home for another boring day he will drop us off at a mall so we can at least get out of the house. A couple weeks ago before he dropped us off at a mall I checked online to see if there were any fabric or craft stores. I have decided to make a quilt out of fabric I buy here but haven't had much luck so far finding fabric stores. I thought they would be all over the place but they are not. Online there were about 4 stores that seemed like they might be good. Another problem I have been having is that most stores don't have websites so the name might sound like a fabric store (Prints & Plains) but turn out to be a clothing store. I had my list in hand the whole time we were walking around. I even had the location of where they were supposed to be. I found one yarn/embroidery shop the size of a closet that didn't have anything that interested me and the rest of the stores were no longer at this mall. We wandered around for a total of 4 hours until I noticed there was a lower basement level that you couldn't get to from all escalators. When we got down there I found a fabric store!! They had all of the fabric draped from the ceiling so I walked along and touched all of it and tried to figure out what I wanted to get because after 4 hours of walking around I was definitely getting something. Wouldn't you know as soon as we walked in the store Nate called to say he was done and we needed to leave as soon as we could to try and beat some of the traffic home. And my children that had been pretty well behaved the whole time (probably because we told them they could get a small toy if they were good) started going crazy as soon as we walked into the store. No, they did not earn a toy that day! I could hardly concentrate because they were running so wild. I think there must be something in the fabric that reacts with children's brains because I can remember them doing the same thing at Joann's in Illinois. The fabric was more expensive than I wanted to spend so I talked the lady into letting me get 1/4 yard pieces instead of the 1/2 yard she said was the minimum. I figured they would rather have a sale of smaller pieces than no sale at all. I managed to pick out 4 that I liked before Nate got there.


Here it is along with a couple other pieces I found since moving here. After putting it all together like this I realized that not of it goes together at all! Not sure what I am going to do. What I really need is a trip all by myself to a fabric store and at least 2 hours to look around and pick out more. It takes me forever to put stuff together that I like but I love doing it.