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Just a Jumper

I made this jumper for a camp-out. I gave $1.00 a yard for the fabric and hoped it would be good fabric. It WAS! I enjoy wearing this jumper because a happy yellow t-shirt goes with it.

Confrontation Piece?

Noooooooooooo, it's a Conversation Piece. Around here, that means a jumper from a shop located in Galveston or Spring, Texas. It means the fabric is nice and always very interesting, doesn't fade, the sizes can't be trusted, they have fun buttons and you CAN find them at thrift stores. I collect them. So does my friend Amy. We buy them even though we won't actually be able to wear them ourselves............. because we know we can give them to each other or find somebody that will fit into them. I was in Galveston one day, in her store, and I summoned the courage to ask her how she got started.........she said she sewed jumpers and dresses in her basement, then got a store, then made loads of them, then stopped. The fabric got too expensive (over $12.00 a yard) and nobody bought them anymore. "People don't like jumpers..." she says. humph. Amy and I do!!!!! She now sells Sarah Elizabeth dresses that have swoopy necklines and are not very modest....

My favorite jumper..........

This fabric was almost THREE dollars a yard!!!!!!!!! I looked at it almost every time I went to Wal-Mart but never felt that I had the money for it. I picked it out to wear at Caleb's wedding, but James took me to Hobby Lobby instead. I finally got some, and made a beautimous jumper out of it. I think I'll wear it on Mother's Day to church.