Meet up with Christine Haynes

 On Saturday morning my husband Luke and I drove three hours south to Downtown Los Angeles. We listened to Murder City Devils, Magazine Dirty, and The Bronx the whole drive, so by the time I got out of the car I was pumped up and ready for some fabric shopping! At 2:00 I met Christine Haynes at the FIDM campus.

 I have to admit, I was nervous about meeting her. She is someone that I look up to so much and I was worried that I would be a total dork and embarrass myself. Would I get nervous and blabber too much and then sweat excessively when I realized how lame I was being? Would she be bummed that she was stuck shopping with someone so uncool? Haha these are the things that go through my head!

Immediately, I felt at ease with her. She is one of those people who are so genuine and sweet, I wondered why I even worried. I felt like I had known her forever! We talked nonstop about sewing, our personal lives, and some of you bloggers :)

Amazingly I was able to keep my mouth shut about my dress. I wanted to surprise Christine by making one of her patterns, the Chelsea dress. I was super excited about wearing it to meet her and I think she was surprised! Oh, it was cool, when I was walking to meet Christine a random lady on the street stopped me and told me she loved my dress :) I'd also like to add that this is the most comfortable dress ever and the fact that it was so comfortable during a three hour car ride made it ever more awesome.

 We went to the Michael Levine loft and scored with some rad fabric. 5.9 pounds of fabric at $2.50 a pound = $16.04 including tax. Nothing wrong with that!

 Our next stop was to Islands Fabric, a store that specializes in Hawaiian fabric. Surprisingly, I didn't buy anything Hawaiian, I bought LA Lakers fabric. No, this is not a joke, I seriously bought Lakers fabric. It's for gifts though!!

After Islands Fabric, Christine and I parted ways. I had SUCH a blast with her and made her promise to call me when she comes up north. I am happy that I can call Christine my friend, she is one of the most amazing people I know.