I have had great difficulty trying to post in the past week. Here is hoping that Todd has my account working so I can get this thread posted. :)
Today I had the privilege of visiting a fabric store in the city of Calgary, Alberta Canada. Two years ago, I did a tour of fabric stores in the Calgary and out lining area. We crossed this store off our list, due to time limitations and the fact that the web site looked like it cater to mostly bears, dolls and some quilting. WOW!!! How wrong was that. She has a wonderful inventory of fabric, patterns and books. What a treasure.
First, this store needs an update on their web site, desperately. I was amazed when I walked into the packed store of wonderful inventory.
I do need to mention, this is not a stroller friendly store…..but she does offer mail order. ;) She said she goes to the post office almost every day.
They have Oliver + S patterns, which is why I went there. Thank you Todd for pointing me in this direction.
The set up for these patterns at the store is not a lovely display, and I never would have found them, had I not asked. Not only that, I would have thought they only had a few, when in fact, she has an inventory of these patterns, in the back. ;) She pulled out all the patterns and while she helped other customers set up for class and such, I organized her patterns back to her original way, so they were grouped together and in alphabetical order, for people who might want to phone and inquire about a particular pattern. ;) She has a lovely inventory of current patterns, BUT she also has some of the out of print patterns as well. I did my best to try to remember the patterns and sizes of the OOP patterns, but when I came back to this site, I realized there were more patterns OOP, so I did not take a mental note of those sizes, sorry.
These are not all in pristine condition. The edges and such have been bumped around, some more so then others. However, if you are wanting to get your hands on some of these patterns, here is one way to do it. I also want to mention the patterns run about $17-19.50 in Canadian dollars. She probably took on this inventory when the Canadian dollar was much lower then the US dollar, although I know now the dollars have switched positions. I do not know the shipping costs.
Here are some of the out of print patterns she had in stock:
Playdate dress smaller sizes 2 maybe 3 left
Puppet Show tunic Only smaller sizes left about 4 patterns.
Bubble Dress (sorry I didn’t take notice of size) but had 2 patterns left
Jump Rope dress larger sizing I believe she had at least 3 copies, possibly as many as 5 (my brain couldn’t remember everything)
Sunday Brunch, again, I don’t remember the sizing of the two patterns, I am pretty sure one was the larger size, but don’t know about the other one.
Swingset tunic 2 patterns, I do not know which sizes.
Sandbox pants 1 or two of the smaller size.
Bedtime Story Pajamas she had several patterns, but I did not take note of the different sizes.
This owner was a delight to meet and I got a much better perspective on her lovely store. Her name is: Deirdre (pronounced "DEAR-druh" -- she loves it when you get it right!) I took that from her web site. The name of the web site and telephone number are:
Out Of Hand http://www.out-of-hand.com/
toll-free: (888) 263-3353
phone: (403) 217-4871
fax: (403) 249-1778
If you decide to phone and place an order, please let her know you heard about it here, on the O + S forum from Carol. I receive nothing for this. It is simply a courtesy to let her know I am sharing the news about her lovely store .
I hope this is helpful for some people. :)
Carol