CRUSH: The Fabric District

On Saturday, my Mom, Christina and I headed to downtown Los Angeles to the fabric district. Christina and I have been wanting to go, and it finally worked out that we could meet there. It's a little overwhelming, and I didn't get as much as I hoped just because I didn't know what I was doing or where to go. Next time though, I will come home with WAY more fabric! And "next time" needs to be relatively soon - hear that Christina?! I will brush up on my bargaining skills ;o)

This place sold fabric my the pound. I had never heard of that before. You picked through dozens of boxes and they weighed it...for $2.50 per pound, you can get quite a bit. It was about 1:00 when we got here and I was STARVING and had no patience to pick through these boxes. Christina and I thought it would be funny though to stick your arm to the bottom of the box, pull something out, then challenge ourselves (or each other) to make something with it - next time!

(This is at Michael Lavine Loft)

The next 2 pictures I borrowed from Dana @ Made I forgot to get them. Her blog gave us a good starting point about what shops to hit ect.

While my Mom and I waited for Christina to meet us, we shopped around in this store!

They have a bunch of clothes and accessories that are SUPER inexpensive. I got some headbands with giant flower 2/$1, a peasant skirt for a dollar, a giant bag of beads that I will donate to the school for $4. But the best part is in the back, behind a wall, they have fabric that is $1.00 per yard! I totally regret not buying more. BUT this was our first stop and I didn't know what to expect from the other shops!
Here is the wall of fabric at the FIDM store!

Here is another photo from Dana @ Made that shows the street view. The shops were tiny with tons of bolts of fabric. If your looking for something specific, I think it would be hard. I think it might be easier to just brows and grab fabric you like to add to your stash.

This is the regular Michael Lavine store - pretty much any fabric you can think of, they have here. The catch? It's not discounted like the street shops. The quilting cotton was $8-$10 per yard.