:: Possibilities

Posted by Joelle on March 10, 2008

This is a rather gratuitous post just to celebrate my excitement at today’s visit to my favourite local fabric shop. I spent ages looking through all the shirt fabrics with a few projects in mind, and left inspired with even more and with a big pile of lovely crisp cottons.

It is raining so miserably today. I am stuck inside with my fabrics, dreaming of the warm weather to come, still seemingly so far off. I am thinking about these cottons and the clothes they will become, and the days I will spend in them sitting and living outdoors.

Can anyone recommend a really good simple summer dress pattern for that white and red striped linen at the bottom?

Categories: craft
Tags: cotton, daydreaming, fabric, sewing, summer dresses

5 Responses to “Possibilities”

1. Kirsty says:
   March 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

   I don’t think that I could ever make my own shirts! My clothes skills are currently limited to wrap skirts.

2. Joelle says:
   March 11th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

   I’m soon to find out. My book calls it ‘medium’ skilled.

3. Kirsty says:
   March 12th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

   Also, where was this magical fabric shop? I’ve been looking for a good one that I can get to from work, but to no avail.

4. Kerry says:
   March 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

   I threw my last “intermediate” piece out in disgust - pattern, fabric, pins and all! That may have more to do with me than the pattern, mind.

5. Joelle says:
   March 13th, 2008 at 10:05 am

   Kirsty - the fabric shop is the one on Ridley Road Market in Dalston that I mentioned. I always seem to go for the things on the very top shelves that have to be gotten down with a pole.

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