Secret stash...guilt free

Happy Autumn!  Hope you are having a good weekend and that you have a chance to get out and enjoy the nice cool weather (after that summer we had~!).

This has been a happy week at Exquisite Fabrics.  A number of the neighboring businesses here on Davis Street are expanding into new niches, completing long-planned projects, celebrating anniversaries (hello Cameleer on your 20th!)  As if there were not already enough temptation in the gastronomy department, the Frenchman's Corner has added goodies (and they keep baiting us about it on Facebook)...fudge, brownies, pastries, and of course those Neuhaus chocolates. The Culpeper Cheese Company has a ribbon cutting next week. There's a new candy niche called "My Secret Stash" in one of the stores too.  Uh, secret stash?  Who, me??

Of course we fabric lovers might have a sweet tooth but our real stash consists of fabric.  And more fabric.  And all the stuff we need to keep that creative flame alive, even (especially) when we don't have time to do anything about it.

I'm thinking about our DC customers who are up against the end of the fiscal year (always a crisis at work) and thinking about how many 60, 70, and 80 hour work weeks we have all had to cope with, somehow.  Our "secret stash" of sewing goodies might just be sustenance for us.  I know mine has been for me.

So, when the new Burda book finally caught up with us (it had been shipped to Georgetown grrrrrrrrr) I took a few minutes and relaxed with the book, and picked a favorite pattern for this fall, Burda 7422. Unfortunately, I was so enthusiastic about it that we sold out today.  But more are on the way~!  Look at this style!

We have some coating weights and even some double face (reversible) coating weights

that would be perfect for this!  

Can't make it to our store? 

Tell me what you would like, and I'll try to post some choices online for you to buy.  

The week ended with a few surprises for us...several customers from our former locations popped in...to our great delight!  Some live in or around Culpeper, some in Fredericksburg, some in Stafford, and one couple was just driving through from Alexandria to North Carolina....well, it's great to see all the familiar faces and of course the new acquaintances too!