I Find the Wool
Last Halloween, I looked around for Navy Blue wool for J's Admiral costume and I couldn't find any. I figured that the fabric store must be like the clothing stores, always one season ahead of reality, so it occurred to me a couple of weeks ago this year to go over to JoAnn's Fabrics and see if the wool had come in, or if there was any. And there WAS wool, but it was a sad disappointment. It was the kind of rough, poorly woven shrinky stuff that gives wool a bad name and small children the itchies all over the world. It was lousy wool, and it was ...29.00 a yard. So I left it there, and came home and googled "Chicago Garment District", and found it, and found a place that sounded like JoMarr in Philadelphia, and googled the location, and it was indeed in a "rough part" of town (the barbed wire around the parking lots is always a clue). To be fair, my parking place at JoMarr in Kensington was next to the burnt-out car, and you had to watch for needles...