A Crafter Mourns the End of an Era: Goodbye, Joann’s

Looking for alternatives to Joann Fabrics? Here are 14 craft stores in the Fox Cities

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A Crafter Mourns the End of an Era: Goodbye, Joann’s

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCLA chapter. I was thirteen when my grandmother gifted me my very first sewing machine—a Singer Fashion Mate. It was sleek, powerful, and far more advanced than the novice hand-stitching my grandmother had taught me earlier in my life. I remember the thrill of threading it for the first time, the hum of the motor beneath my hands as I practiced stitching over pinned scraps of fa…