As you already know I was lucky enough to attend Fabric Weekend 2013 Los Angeles last weekend.
My trip began Friday morning at 2am after one long sleepless night. I boarded a plane in New Hampshire and after 8+ hours of travel I arrived in LA. From there I met up with Mie from Sewing Like Mad at the beautiful Omni Hotel. We dropped off our luggage and headed straight to The Fabric District.
Our first stop was to Michael Levine where we met up with the other 20+ bloggers who were already there. We were first treated to lunch and then given a private tour of their 3 fabric stores and a behind the scenes look at their daily operations.
Michael Levine really rolled out the red carpet for us and treated us like “Fabric Queens” for the day! I really cannot say enough great things about them or their stores!
I was just in awe of the amount of fabric they had there. As far as you could see…fabric, fabric and more fabric!
Everything was label and organized just so.
After the tour we began shopping in each of their 3 stores. I headed to the main store first and then to The Loft. Can you say $2.50 a pound for fabric?! Super bummed I didn’t buy more!
Again, it was completely overwhelming for me. There was more fabric in The Loft then I have ever seen in one store before. Remember…I am from New Hampshire?!
Mie from Sewing Like Mad
After we left Michael Levine we headed onto the streets of LA to do more shopping. As far as you can see fabric shops in every direction.
It was just plain fabric craziness!
Some of the fabrics were just fun to look at. Although I was wishing I knew what the kiddos wanted to be this year for Halloween. Just look at those fabrics!
Crossing the streets is a challenge and I did worry for my life a bit, but anything for fabric, right?!
Some of the stores were even more dangerous then crossing the streets. I wondered if I would make it out alive from some of them.
I did buy some knit fabric from this particular store. They measured out my white knit fabric using arm lengths and then threw the measured fabric straight onto the ground. Oh my poor white knit fabric! Complete craziness I tell ya…but for $1 a yard I wont complain. 
I would say we did pretty well for one days worth of shopping.
That night we headed downtown to a cute little Mexican Restaurant. The area was so charming. I couldn’t help but love these little colorful buildings. Usually they are open selling all kinds of goodies. We just happened to be there on a night where they were all closed. 
As you can see we had a FULL first day! It was completely amazing…exhausting…and so overwhelming. I just have to say that all of the girls were amazing! They were all so friendly, sweet and amazingly talented. I couldn’t have asked for a more amazing group of girls to meet!
Wow! So fun! Wish I had been there to meet you!!! One day, my friend!
Is the fabric district like that all the time?
Oh my! It looks like so much fun!!
Love all the fabric photos!
Sewing heaven! Joann’s is enough to give me ADD. Sounds like you had a great time!
Your pictures are so amazing!such a talented photographer.