If you like fabric at all, or have a crafty bone in your body, or are enticed by quirky shops in the slightest, you will dig Loom. You'll dig it hard. They have every single cool, unusual, hard-to-find, hilarious, arbitrary or otherwise rad piece of cloth ever printed.\n\nI'm not a particularly crafty person, I'm actually a particularly clumsy person, but after I saw a bolt of sexy firemen fabric I knew I needed to find an excuse to make something with it. I knew it deep down inside, the way your mom knows when you've been dumping eight tablespoons of sugar on your Corn Flakes because she refuses to buy Lucky Charms.\n\nSo I came up with a project that required numerous narrow strips of fabric. Unfortunately, the woman working there politely informed me, they have a half-yard minimum. As panic started to set upon my realization that I was going to have to buy $100 worth of fabric that I would never use, the owner chimed in that she wouldn't mind cutting me any size piece I wanted. *That's* how you do it guys: don't make me ask you to be accommodating, that makes us both look bad. \n\nI ended up with 15 different patterns in my bag; photo-realistic astronauts, graphic \""Yowza!\"" text, pin-up girls, tiny birds in lime green, houses in a row that look hand drawn, brass knuckles embedded with rhinestones, cats and dogs dressed up as generals and sergeants and neon lace. I passed on the glittering rainbow unicorns: I think that fad is on its way out (finally and thank God).\n\nI would reupholster everything in the world, including the hideous \""igloo\"" downtown and my laptop, if I could do it with bolts of stuff from here.