Having been married to a professional dressmaker for 43 years, here is my advice for surviving trips to the fabric store.
Step 1. Bring a book. I now use technology and bring my Nook, to make sure I have enough reading material.
Step 2. Fabric stores ALWAYS have chairs. The most comfortable will be in the sewing machine sales area, in front of sewing machines. If there is no sewing machines sales at the store you are in (unlikely but possible), there IS a pattern book table, with chairs.
Step 3. Sit in your selected chair and read. If asked to pass a particular pattern lots of book, smile, and pass it.
You will get lots of smiling approval, since you are both there supporting your wife's sewing project, AND staying out of her way.
Geoff Withnell
"My comrades, they did never yield, for courage knows no bounds."
No longer subject to reveille US Marine.
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