Somebody stop me! If you are not familiar at all with the Dallas "Perth Street Fabric District area," it is a section of Dallas not far from downtown that gets fabrics from those same places or types of places that the NY garment district gets (only on a much smaller scale I'm guessing). I've purchased fabrics here that I've seen at Louise Cutting and some of the higher dollar local fabric shops. Some of the things the higher dollar fabric shops sell for $10 and up per yard, I've gotten here at $2-5/yd. So that gives you an idea. Of course, you can go there several times and not find anything you are interested in and then go and "hit the jackpot." If you see it and want it, you'd better buy it--it won't be there when you come back.
Check out the $1/yd fabrics I got this week: These are all 100% cotton and oh so soft. The black/white check may become my WWII dress. (I never ordered the aqua dots/solid from fabric.com) I'm thinking now to use the small check with the midsection of the dress cut on the bias. This will be good for fall here in Texas. Most of the time we wear short sleeves well into November. (we are getting a cool front this week- only mid 90s during the day--yea!!)
The fruit fabric will be used in some of my "I-spy" quilts. The other multi color on the left has dogs on it and will be used for scrubs for one of my vet office friends. The pink and white--those are not dots, but tiny hearts. That may be perfect for one of the many vintage dress patterns that I'm now addicted to collecting. All of these were $1/yd - quality of $8 and up retail.
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