 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. So Interesting point of view today. We're in my car because we are headed to Joanne. This will be my first time at the Joanne here in Charlotte. According to maps, this is the only Joanne in Charlotte. So it better be good. But what I thought we would do today is I would take you along with me vlog style as we Check out the Charlotte Joanne for the first time together. It's a rainy day. It is gloomy and sad. So hopefully once we get there we'll find all sorts of things to make us happy but but yeah, so we're on our way and I will Be back once we arrive According to maps We have arrived It looks new actually Everything out here looks sort of new. It's like there's nothing going on out here and they said, you know what? We should build a lot of shopping centers out here. So that's what they did Yeah, so I have arrived just waiting to turn into the parking lot and we'll get in from the rain and See what they've got today's the last day of their butteric pattern sale So I'm eager to see what inventory is like on the last day of a pattern sale next week is the McCall's pattern sale and I'm curious to see if they have the new early spring patterns. Well for both butteric and McCall's like that's Well for butteric, I'm certain they have the latest which was their winter collection But for McCall's I'm eager to see if they have the early spring ones Like if they have the book out yet, and if they have the patterns available So we'll see and I know they just did like a huge fabric sale So we'll see what inventory is like on that as well and just kind of get a lay of the land But I found it and I didn't get lost so That's good. Okay driving again Alrighty told ya. I made it so Here we go Well first impression is everything's backwards than what I'm used to and I got a broken cart Why it's so loud Also, I don't know if people are gonna be staring at me for Videoing myself in here. I don't know if people around here are used to that or not People had to other Joanne kind of just got used to it. I haven't been fabric shopping in so long. I don't even know What's like new or special to this location like look at this Seated Metallicy stuff So just making my way through the fabric selection. It does seem really organized like all the Knit solids are together all the silky prints are together But it does seem like they've gotten a lot of like higher-end stuff Maybe that would have been at the Charleston one, too. I just hadn't been in so long but If that's something that Joanne is doing like across the board Who knows? There are a lot of these like missing things though, which Not a big fan of that But yeah, there's a lot of pretty stuff here. And like I said, it's really organized and clean So, yeah, feeling good about the fabric selection, too. There's a lot of fabrics here Look how cool these are Charleston definitely didn't have those it feels like I'm in a gap store Does your Joanne have these like headers above all of the fabric sections It's cool. I wonder if they change them out so that the fabrics in the picture match one of the fabrics that are down here or if it just stays Like those three pictures all the time Maybe they change it out every once in a while but doesn't it feel like a Retail like a ready-to-wear store like gap or something? That was cool See look at all this stuff very ready to wear friendly You know like you could make up something that looks very ready to wear with this A lot of these actually look Cute. Anyways, so far so good. Empty cart. So just really trying to take it all in So this is the clearance section That's a testament to how organized it is in here Have you look at it? There's not a lot of it though We had a lot more clearance in Charleston than they do here But at least it's organized and really easy to see what your options are still a lot of cottons But they make good muslin Okay, check this out. This is an entire Casa collections like Sample rack Joanne custom cut Browse there are extensive fabric selection to find fresh inspiration order at the cutting counter or online Create your own one of a kind piece that fits your Signature style So like is this in stock here? They just don't have it on the bolts or like, I don't know what's happening There's like a lot of it. Don't look but it's like really kind of special stuff like look at that We definitely did not have this in Charleston. I don't know how many other places do y'all have this at yours look ostrich feathers or something So, yeah There's like a really good collection of like special occasion very specialized type stuff Interesting means I don't know that I see anything that I would like Does it tell here's silk Georgia? $80 yard. What are we being Jane? Oh goodness? I Think that You must order it and then they ship it to you from like some warehouse somewhere, right? Silk satin that feels really nice It's very pretty. It's like a little bit thicker. It's down here Tool shiny satin silk velvet cool. Yeah, I mean for sure if I were looking for something So sure moves Pretty Yeah, I were looking for something like super special like a gown or a great back satin Great back satin is not that special Ten dollars Yeah, so it's not all super expensive. These are $15 It just depends stretch satin And you've got like a sequin-y type of stuff $50 a yard. It's pretty though When it shows you a picture of what the border looks like. Yeah, they do a good job with this little thing Wonder how long it takes to get in. I wonder if there's like minimums that you have to buy You know, I have lots of questions about this little section here new to me If I get something cut today, I'll ask them about it I wanted to point out that they still have like a ton of special occasion fabrics It's not like all they have are these special order ones like they still have Glitterly sparkly things, you know, I think how cool this sequin velvet is look at this. I mean So yeah, they still have all the special stuff, but I guess that's just like extra special This is kind of cool, too. They have a whole section for cosplay It has like all these You know kind of like novelty fabrics, but they also have like this is technically a cosplay by Ya Ya Han comm It's like a cool scuba knit Look at this like faux leather ribbed pleather So they have some cool stuff hiding in here. This is really neat It's like a basket weave cotton and then they have like Make this mermaid costume and here's all your mermaid fabrics and then Halloween costume fabric I mean, it's January and they still have this up. So I don't know if it's a year-round thing or what Look at this This is metallic circle skirt Look everything you need to make that and then I guess you can pick any of these fabrics That's kind of fun. I mean, I don't know though. If I were a beginner, would I be like? What's that gray thing and what's that black thing? I Mean maybe But still thoughtful This aisle is similar. There's like I guess it's branded, but there's Girl Scouts John Deere Super Mario Star Wars Harry Potter to Disney Paul patrol Team shop No local teams though other than This one I think Maybe this is hockey This is hockey. I don't know But New York. Oh, here we go Here's that Charlotte Hornets fabric that I posted on Instagram the other day We went to a game for the first time and I thought I Should make a Charlotte Hornets dress if we end up getting like season tickets. I thought that would be fun They also have that fleece down there But anyways, so they have like all this team fabric, too But it's all separated and all organized. I Really love that. I had like kids to shop for something. This would be really helpful. So I wouldn't have to like Search through but there's also just like a large selection of this kind of novelty type stuff so That's cool Okay, I found a clearance aisle whole aisle Just for clearance items. So as most of these Sections go you kind of have to dig through but look there's a whole thing of buttons That's kind of cool. I don't really see anything else sewing related writ dye and tangerine anybody want an orange? Dye something That's all I really see That's something related, but I'm also not digging through all of this But it's neat that they have a whole aisle dedicated to it. So if I was in the mood for it, I would come There's like an apron. That's cute There's some happy planners That are 2017 to 2018 that they're still selling for $15 like what would you use it for I guess you would just take the cover off That's all it's good for anymore Anyways dedicated clearance aisle two thumbs up from me Look, I've also found all of the trim There is actually some leather bias binding I need to find. There's the button. I'll still the same sad selection of buttons I'm still on the hunt for that one Oh Remember that jacket But I saw a White House black market and it was like Olive green with burgundy piping that had some like really really pretty buttons Like rhinestone type buttons and I went on the hunt to try and find some Hobby Lobby had the best selection This Joanne is no better than the Joanne I checked in Charleston in terms of those kinds of buttons Actually, I feel like this Joanne has a smaller selection of buttons Maybe maybe similar in size. It's around this corner I Don't even know now it's starting to get a lot less organized once we left the fabric section So that says a lot. I found the binding So I bought all they had at my Joanne or not mine at the Charleston Joanne And then they never restocked it and this looks either Restocked or like no one's ever bought it So I'll buy a few more yards of this so I can finish that project So that's good But trimming selection looks the same a mess I Mean it's trying to be by color, but struggling struggling Look at all this cute stuff Pet lover Are you Kitten me right now Oh gosh Okay, I found the zipper section and And in terms of these like sporty novelty ones Definitely more than I'm used to in terms of selection Look at these they're just fancy zipper pulls That's kind of cool I haven't seen those before Some fashion zippers and then you have your regular like invisible and jeans Polly Still some holes, you know, so they're not like totally Staying stocked. I mean unless there was a run on them. It is black white natural colors so Okay, they have a Gooderman thread display and then coats and clerk on the other side And then salty as well So same situation there in special But look at this. It's like a retail store just for Sowing machines So I don't know if they like Viking sewing gallery store hours So I guess they every once in a while let you come in and play around on them. That's their Surgeon and there's I think like a long art like a quilting thing So if you have a Husqvarna Viking, oh, you can finance it This is kind of cool. It's like a sewing machine store Look at the embroidery and that fun. They're real fancy machine Okay off to the patterns Okay back in the car as you can tell That fell apart pretty quickly when I got to the patterns Not only did they not have McColl's spring Which is sort of understandable because it just came out a couple weeks ago They didn't even have butteric winter which came out months ago So I asked for the manager as one does and he was basically just like If it's here, it's here. If it's not it's not So I was like, okay, and there was another customer who apparently is pretty frustrated with their slacking on the pattern ordering and She said that They had it at the Monroe location and she was sort of like if she had like a through a lot of shade She was like just so you know they have the book at the Monroe location like Like Like they have it so you should have it or like I don't want to hear your excuses about the warehouse not shipping it or it Seems like she had been She's fed up with a lot of the excuses that she must get from them about why they don't have all the patterns But then I got to the register because I got some of that trim and I asked the guy there because he was like What are you making and I was like, I'm just putting this on the best What kind of best, you know, he was very interested. So I was like, okay, if you're gonna tip the ball I'm gonna hit so I was like, what do you know about the pattern books? He was like, oh He was like we hardly ever get patterns in He was like You can never use the sales here because the patterns that we have are also old He was like he said that he really just ordered online So that's a major bummer. I did want to look up and see I don't know if this is gonna keep filming or not, but we'll try Okay, I just looked up the Joanne in Monroe and it's 40 minutes from here and 50 minutes from my Apartment so I don't think I'm gonna be driving an hour to go get patterns That are on sale on their website anyways, I Don't know. I just don't see how that would be a good use of my time Even if I have to pay a little bit more like if the patterns are $3.99 on their website and $1.99 here Well, $3.99 plus shipping. I don't know. Maybe I'll just be buying a lot fewer patterns But I will say to round this all out They did have a really great fabric selection and it seemed like they were very on top of that Just not so much on the patterns So if I were gonna buy patterns for the Butterick sale today, I would have had to buy them from the fall collection Which isn't terrible. I mean you could definitely still wear those It's just not the latest and greatest So maybe I will like prioritize my patterns to what I want to sew right away and what can wait a Few seasons. I don't know. I really don't know why they can't get it together But all in all the store was very nice very clean the employees although not terribly helpful were very nice about the fact that they couldn't really do much for me and They were also very young like I feel like every employee that I saw was definitely under the age of 30 With the exception of maybe like a couple But like the manager was really young the girl that cut my trim. She was really young the guy their register was really young so sort of not really used to that But yeah, so clean good fabric selection like really good fabric selection and Maybe that's because they have to compete Maybe that cuz there's more competition here like with Mary Joes That's why they have to like really up their fabric game But still I don't know why they can't keep the fact that keep the patterns or get the patterns to begin with I mean it looked like they hadn't even received. I even went through the drawer To see if they had any of the winter patterns and they didn't So Yeah, that's kind of a bummer. I have plenty of fabric. I mean I have plenty of patterns, too, but Patterns are my thing. I like patterns So Yeah, I'm a little disappointed, but I guess I'll just start ordering online and just being a little bit more selective I will be back in Charleston at the end of this month, so Maybe I can go by there then but they have to be a sale going on Goodness. Well, I'm glad I went. I'm glad I checked it out. I spent eight dollars Go me I would have spent more if they had those patterns, but I already had all the fall patterns that I wanted And I didn't want to sit there and look through an old book And just pick out things for the sake of picking out things. So I'm gonna go to Target, which is around the corner There's like this thing a target a bedbath and beyond a Chick-fil-A Like you could just spend all day out here in this little Area also my windows are fogging So I need to get I need to get some air circulating in here. I didn't want to turn it on while it's filming But anyways, thank you so much for watching and for coming on this journey of the Joanne in I guess we're in Pineville, North Carolina Maybe one day I'll make it out to the Monroe location and I bring you along with me, but That's my assessment of this Joanne. Hope you enjoyed it. I will see you all very soon. Bye