Gifts and Purchases

I recently had the chance to spend some time with a sewing buddy and picked up some goodies for the sewing room.

As always when visiting a sewing friend, we went into her sewing room and she shared with me some things she wouldn't be using.

Large bag of fabric

Interfacing (4 types)

Gold overlocker thread

The next day we went to The Malvern Quilt show where I was fairly restrained, but did buy a few things.

2 metres of stretch denim from Roy's Material World

Some clips from the Quilted Bear

A bag of leather scraps from Remade Worcester

Also (not pictured) some thread and some water soluble interfacing for embroidery.

The next day we visited the local Medieval Fair where I bought some vintage 36" wide cotton fabric from Bernie the Bolt

I got 4 metres, but since it is so narrow it'll be interesting to see what I can do with it.

Shopping not sewing

Here are some recent fabric purchases

From Boyes in Whitby

Left - navy cotton with a Kingfisher and weeping willow. I loved this so much I went back and bought a second length - I have 2 x 3 metres, but its only narrow.

Centre - silver grey stretch velvet to make a shrug for a friend - 1m but quite wide

Right - navy cotton with red and white anchors. Only 1m and narrow, home dec.

Also a set of bag feet as I want to play a bit with bag making.

A couple of weeks earlier I'd ordered some 2m and 4 m bundles from T9 fabrics

I had better get sewing!

Fabric Purchases

 My lovely sewing friend has been in our area for a few days and yesterday (31 July 2024) we went to 

My Fabric Place

Left - 1.5 metres of pink stretch lace with a paisley design - for a top (can't find on website)

Centre - 2 metres of teal blue viscose floral print - for a blouse - link here 

Right - 2 metres of navy viscose floral - for summer trousers (can't find on website)

Also some lightweight interfacing (no photo)

It'll be interesting to see how long these marinade for before appearing back here as clothing!

Sewing Purchases

I'm adding some photos of recent fabric purchases so you can enjoy them, but also so I can search for them later and find out when I bought them!

First up is one from a little while back (21st May). It's 1.5metres of cotton batik from Boyes in Arnold, Nottingham (fairly local to me). I'm planning to make a simple summer shirt from this and will probably use emerald green thread.

The next purchase was from the fabric and haby sections of the Singer Sewing Shop in Whitley Bay on 25th June 2024.

A tracing wheel, some machine oil, 5 spools of Chocolate brown Moon thread (from my upcoming Autumn collection!). Also 2 metres of polycotton with a strawberry print, for a travel shirt and 3 metres of navy blue polycotton to make some walking trousers (and maybe some shorts).

Then I managed to pop in Boyes when I was briefly in York on 29th June. There I picked up some more batik fabric. This time in a muted purple. It's the end of the roll, just over 1.3 metres with a yellow mark on it. I bought this to go with another fabric (which I didn't have with me), but I don't think it does really (sigh).

The last purchase was when I went to Boyes in Whitby on 1st July.

There I bought 2 metres of a fun cotton poplin printed with colourful sailing boats on a pink background. A matching spool of pink thread and a loop turner.

The fabric is for a summer/travel shirt.

Earlier I said I'd bought the purple batik to go with another fabric, well see what you think?

The peacock fabric came from Auntie Joy's stash, but I only have 1 metre of it, not enough for a shirt. So bought extra to augment it.

Here's the peacock fabric with other batik fabrics, but none seem quite right. Happily the top two go quite well together so if I need some little extra for the batik shirt I could use that.

That's all for now. I hope to be back with something new to show you soon!

Updated to add a few photos of the peacock fabric with plains.

Medium blues

Turquoises

More blues

Greens

Purples

This seems to work the best colour wise, but its a poly-cotton and the peacock print is cotton.

Thoughts?

New Fabrics

 After I'd donated a bagful of clothes and household items at one local charity shop I walked on to the next one where I found they had loads of lovely new fabric remnants.

So I bought quite a few of them.

6 pieces of quilting cotton, 3 lengths of rayon woven, 1 length of cotton woven and 2 bits of jersey.

It has absolutely made my day!

Madeira Holiday Purchases

We recently came back from a lovely 2 weeks in Funchal, Madeira, where we enjoyed watching the Carnival and going on walks as well as eating, drinking and of course a bit of shopping for fabrics and haberdashery.

Tecidos Zarco

3 knit remnants, blue knit (joggers), brown print knit (top) and knit with holes (top)

Crosby Collection

Mini scissors, buckle, lace, trim.

Feira Dos Tecidos

2 metres of teal stretch woven (trousers) and a pretty knit remnant (top)

Bazar do Povo

Clear snaps, dungaree clips, turquoise shoelaces and bra findings.