Out of curiousity

[vinyl-raven.livejournal.com]

I've had always wanted a fabric store in davis. I want to know that if there was one, but failed? or that there is plans for one *crosses fingers*? or if there is even the slightest interest of having one in the square...

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[chumbolly.livejournal.com]

Disclaimer: I don't sew. But my wife does so I've seen the inside of a few fabric stores. To me, most seem like a good way to kill a weekend, picking over horribly out-of-date prints. And they're always enormous and to my untrained eye seem to sell pretty cheap fabric. I've been to one shop that was totally different, and could be a great model for a Davis shop. The knitting store, Purl, in Soho, has a sister store next door that sells really sweet fabric. The store is about the size of the inside of your refrigerator, but it still took my wife an hour to pick out two fabrics because just about every one in the store was awesome. Plus, Ira Glass, her favorite celebrity ever, was shopping there at the same time so she was distracted like crazy. I think the website is down, but they run a blog: http://www.purlbee.com/ The store is probably 200 square feet and had three employees on the floor. The customers were all outwardly giddy, like kids at Christmas. If you could replicate that, Davis rents wouldn't be an issue at all. And my wife would beat a path to your door.