Friday Night Sew In - Lots DONE!

I had a very productive Friday Sewing....

These are the projects I worked on

• Vest for youngest, using Ottobre Design 1/07 #22 sz 98 lengthened, with short sleeves
• Swim Bottoms for older daughter using Ottobre Downloaded Pattern
• Swim Top for my son using a hacked Ottobre Design  #3/10 35 sz 140
• Tshirt Remake for my husband (made it smaller), recut with KwikSew 
• Lycra Circle Skirt for me (self-calculated)
• Top for me using Ottobre Design 4/10  #29 sz 170
• Applied the binding to Quilt  #3

And an added bonus, in searching for some of the fabric I did do some cleaning of my sewing room.... A great productive Friday night!

Coming home from Portugal....

My husband is currently travelling for work and visited a fabric store but couldn't find anything he thought I'd like (he did great choosing fabric on his trip to Finland...)  So instead these should be arriving home Saturday

One looks to be Burda Style Nov 2011 in two different languages (maybe? possibly French and Portuguese), and the top magazine is an Italian kids magazine (knitting, crochet, cross stitch and other projects).  So will the Burda's be the same?  Guess I need to wait and find out....

Missing a fabric store

Just over a month ago the local Fabricland store closed (the only chain fabric store around) due to a lease problem (landlords upped the rent 40-50%). They opened one up across the river, meaning I have to cross the bridge to get there - so I can't easily drop to the store while the kids are in school. And the way evenings and weekends have been recently - I just haven't had time for the trek! And even though I have some time today, it is really out of my way....

So instead I have been visiting the local independent stores. Before Mother's Day I went into the local Quilt Store and had great help and found exactly what I was looking for. I've bought a few things at Fabricana a local family owned store. Today I'm headed into Sundrop Textiles to get bra cups. There is also a sewing machine store that has quilting classes and may sell fabrics as well - I haven't been in recently but may have to check it out soon.

I am so lucky I have such a large selection of independent stores, I haven't been doing any impulse shopping as prices are a little higher for some things, especially notions. The only other difficulty I'm finding is some of these stores have shorter store hours and aren't open when I have time to get there so these trips need to be planned.... something I'm not always so good about doing.

Fabric Found!

I went back to the fabric stores on Friday morning and still no traditional plaid/tartan. I also called to another store (about an hour drive away) to see if they had any. No luck. But since KwikSew patterns were 1/2 price today, I went back to get the pattern. Guess what arrived in yesterday's shipment? Traditional Scottish plaids in poly/rayon blend! They had 3 or 4 red different red tartans - I chose the Royal Stewart tartan (the one I'd originally been looking for).


Plans for the Christmas Dress
Ottobre 1/07 #25 (Taffeta Dress) with the plaid skirt and black bodice. I think I will do the belt with the plaid on the bias. The sleeve and neck binding will be the plaid on the bias.

I also picked up KS3594 as I wanted a pattern for a full band bra. Notions, interfacing and other items were on sale, but the girls were with me so I didn't stop to look at those. The sale is for another 3 days, so hopefully I'll have a chance to go grab a few notions.

No sewing but fabric shopping...

So no sewing today... but I did go out shopping with my mom and my two oldest. We headed into Vancouver and went to Dressew and Rokko's. I got some good deal on elastic, picked up some bra parts and got a piece of pink embroidered cotton, oyster coloured bra satin and black powernet. My son also purchased some fabric with martial arts on it to make himself a bag for his equipment. Now tomorrow hopefully I can get some sewing done.