Even better, Mr P and I took a trip to Leicester to visit friends and I managed a rummage around one of my old shopping grounds - Leicester market, and turned up some beautiful fabrics. With all this sunshine a new piece of fabric for a spring garment was definitely on the cards.
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| Stuart's Fabrics |
Leicester Market is one of the UK's largest permanent markets and has some great stalls for all but, hey, let's stick to what we're about here. After a quick shifty around I decided to investigate Stuart's Fabrics and wow, does he have some nice stock.
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| Oooh, love this chartreuse shade |
My first choice was a lovely navy, cream and chartreuse jersey, quickly followed by a navy, dark violet and cream print jersey - excellent quality and a bargain at £4 per metre.
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| A little mixing up here |
Next up was 3 metres of heavy cobalt blue satin which will become something similar to this Valentin Yudashkin number. I purchased enough to cut it on the bias and at £6 per metre for 3 metres that's a fair bit of fabric. The printed cotton satin was £8 per metre and the turquoise raw silk £10 per metre.
And finally a lovely wool remnant - enough for a fitted dress which I would love to enter into Julia Bobbin's Mad Men Challenge but I'm about a year too late. However, I'm still inspired so I'm going to construct my Mad Men dress anyway. I just need to have a good rummage through my pattern stash.
Phew, that should keep me going for a while.
Don't forget to check out Stuart's Fabrics if you're in Leicester - or let me in on any of your Fabric Find secrets.
Happy sewing
Linda x
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