Friday, June 7, 2013

Shopping Down East: Fabric

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:

Over corrected the colours and hit save instead of undo. DOH!
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?!

10 comments:

  1. 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.

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    1. I think that any lampshade added to an outfit instantly makes it more fun!

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  2. Yummo! And I LOVE the fugly fabric, it will make a glorious Hummingbird :)

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    1. Thanks! I thought of the Hummingbird as soon as I saw it, and also that it'd look awesome with jeans. :D

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  3. According 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!

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    1. I'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. :)

      The 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!

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  4. I was just thinking I would use all of those for Hummingbirds!

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    1. This 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.

      (but yeah, you're totally right)

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  5. It was awesome spending an afternoon crawling about a fabric store with you again. It's been too long!

    And 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.

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    1. 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!

      Also, I loved your post on your pretty yarns! Nice pictures!

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