Friday, February 7, 2014

Fun Fact #2

My very first job was at Wegmans. For those of you who aren't acquainted, Wegmans is like Whole Foods and Kroger wrapped up together. You get all the gourmet food and specialty stuff, but you can also buy fruit loops and spray cheese.

Back in the day, and by the day, I mean the mid 70's, Wegmans wasn't quite so gourmet, but it was still all that. It was the first store in the area that had bar code scanners! Very high tech.

So, what's this have to do with quilting, you might ask (because it's all gotta revolve around quilting, right?)

Wegmans had a fabric department! I'm not kidding. Two aisles over from the frozen food was the Wegmans Fashion Fabrics!  And because I don't throw away anything, here's the bag to prove it:



along with some remnants my mom saved. I think I made her some muumuus with these gems.




Very groovy, don't you think?

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6 comments:

Gene Black said...

totally Groovy Man!

Julie said...

I'd love some muumuus out of those fabrics!

Barb said...

Beautiful fabrics....just love them...in Samoa they would have fabric in the food stores...

Patty said...

Like wow!

craftytammie said...

ha! my mom wore a muu muu back in the day!

Jessie said...

How awesome to find that bag! Hold on to it long enough and it will be worth some money. I worked at Wegmans too, but we were quite gourmet by that time, and certainly there was no fabric department. You had it much better!