sewing patterns

I went to Hancock's fabrics in Springfield MO last week. Now, I don't know how long that store has been in that little strip mall, it sits way back off of the road, but I only found it recently when I was looking for something else (story of my life).

Anyway, they had both Vogue and McCall's patterns on sale. I have only used Vogue a couple of times - and decided I have to stick with Very Easy Vogue - but I digress. I don't really like McCall's as well as the other main brands, but - for 99 cents!! Anyway, I picked up 3 patterns and fabric for 4 items - jacket, blouse, tee, and pants.

Now let me explain that I had just been in Coldwater Creek, and LOVE almost everything in the store. But at $90 for an unlined cotton jacket, and $56 for a plain tee, it ain't happening. Of course, what CC has that I can't duplicate around here are those gorgeous fabrics. They have a cotton knit batik in mainly browns, but with one other color (mine, of course would be the aqua, but I do love the red also). This perfect fabric, however shows up in a faux-wrap with a rather large neck opening (again, not gonna happen!) So I want THAT fabric, and I want it now! But again, I digress.

Digressing again, I want to point out that one of the pants they have (I didn't even LOOK at the price.) was in the EXACT same fabric as the pants I was wearing - and I made - dark chocolate cotton gabardine with a touch of stretch . I know fabric - I can tell.

Anyway, so three patterns, 4 fabrics - $88 -

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WHAT!!! They charged me full price for the patterns!

I went back, and they were extremely nice. The manager was actually on the phone with the head office talking about why some patterns weren't ringing up at the correct price. I got a refund of $52.

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YES! FOR THREE PATTERNS! Who pays full price for these things???!!! This is obcsene!

SO, for those of you doing the math, that's only $12 per item. You can't do that well at Wal-Mart.
(for those of you who know me, you can stop all that snickering about WHEN these items will be finished - that's not my point here.)