Remember when I
mentioned that I was heading down east for a geoscience conference my last time out? Well, it was awesome. It was fantastic to see family after a year away and two of my best friends after
almost 2 years(!!), so nice to discuss Real Science
® with people whose eyes don't glaze over in boredom.
And so nice to go fabric and yarn shopping in
good shops!
Look what I found! From left to right:
- Raspberry coloured...thin...cotton knit...something?? Oh goodness, I can't remember what this is. Good start, Heather.
- Uh...poly-lycra? no wait, uh, poly-rayon...something, BUT IT'S POLKA DOT SO WHO CARES.
- Purple ponte de roma, which I'm excited to work with because I hear good things about it (plus the colour is gorgeous).
- French terry in plain old black, because it may be boring to work with but it's an important staple in my wardrobe. Plus I kept coming back to it and fondling it disturbingly.
I had a great time shopping for these. My buddy,
Heather (Fuss), was in the city for the same conference, and I
needed to take her to
Mitchell's Fabrics! Sadly, she had will power and didn't fall for any fabrics (saved her cash for yarn, but that's a story for tomorrow), but she made a great assistant and carried my chosen fabric bolts as I crawled all over both floors of this store. THANKS HEATHER!!
I think she was amused by the basement of Mitchell's, which is full of vintage fabrics, butt-ugly fabrics, and fun fur. And you know what? I finally broke down and bought some of the ugliest fabric in that basement:
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ISN'T IT GREAT!! (And by 'great' I mean 'god awful', but in a great way!) It's literally from the 70's, and I've been pawing it every time I walked into that store. In fact, you can see it in
this post from 2011. I don't actually think it's ever moved off of that one shelf, come to think. I'm going to make a
Hummingbird top out of it.
Seriously.
What do you think of my fabrics? I totally bought them all thinking of all the pretty
Cake Patterns winging their way to me! Would you buy butt-ugly fabric if it called out to you? And if so,
would you use it?!
Glad you are happy with your fabrics. I bought some fabric with lampshades on it and made a top a few years ago. I still don't know whether its good or bad.
ReplyDeleteI think that any lampshade added to an outfit instantly makes it more fun!
DeleteYummo! And I LOVE the fugly fabric, it will make a glorious Hummingbird :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I thought of the Hummingbird as soon as I saw it, and also that it'd look awesome with jeans. :D
DeleteAccording to Mama R I buy "butt-ugly" fabric all the time. I take it as a compliment and they are the most fun to transform into something awesome and one-of-a-kind. It is going to make the perfect Hummingbird. And amen on the polka-dot comment!
ReplyDeleteI'm always drawn to more wild prints, but then overcompensate away from them into boring fabrics. I try to be realistic of what I'll wear, but this time, I NEEDED this fabric to make a fun top. :)
DeleteThe polka-dot is super thin too, but I just don't care. There was an entire bolt there, in case you were craving some polka-dots yourself!
I was just thinking I would use all of those for Hummingbirds!
ReplyDeleteThis is all the knits I own (other than a couple boring pieces in my stash), so I need to not use them all up on one pattern. Probably.
Delete(but yeah, you're totally right)
It was awesome spending an afternoon crawling about a fabric store with you again. It's been too long!
ReplyDeleteAnd it wasn't so much that I had willpower as I spend all of my fun-money, plus some, at the yarn stores :P
I think it's time to start blogging again.
It's probably a good thing we went yarn shopping first then, eh? I'm so glad we could meet up in Winnipeg, I've missed you!
DeleteAlso, I loved your post on your pretty yarns! Nice pictures!