Friday, August 27, 2010
retail therapy
○ 1 meter : frog print from Now I Know My ABC's
○ 2 meter : princess and the pea (in white) from Far Far Away
○ 1 meter : a purple floral print with orange and green accents,
says "Sevenberry Made in Japan" but i can't find anything online...
○ 1 meter : black "japanesy" looking fabric with tiny little white,
pink, blue and green stitches in lines. it sounds really bizarre but
i don't even know how to go about googling it to get a picture... and i tried!
○ 1 meter : purple with perpendicular hash marks,
another "japanesy" fabric with no label on the selvage
○ 1 meter : funky red and blue and pink and green print
with flowers, butterflies, a couple skulls and some nonsense text
(damn these non-labeled selvages, i give up!)
○ 1 meter : royal blue and aqua blue thin stripe
○ 1 meter : all bright colors, squares with different cartoon pictures
including bumble bee, cherries, train, car, heart, skull, flower, whale, shooting star...
○ 2 meters : white and beige thin stripe
○ 2 meters : white with tiny (tiny!) gold polka dots
○ 1 meter (x3) : alice in wonderland print (3 colorways) for a friend
○ random size scrap, about 1 meter (?) : BLINDING sparkly purple
○ 2 meters : kelly green canvas strap
○ 2 meters (x3) : thick drawstring in teal, grey and black
○ various zippers (4 hidden, 8 regular)
○ cranberry cream cheese bread
○ cocoa soy milk "juice box"
○ 210mL snowcone syrup, strawberry (x6)
as i left tomato (the fabric store in nippori) i was starving, so i stopped for the bread (oh so good) and soy milk snack, before heading another 20-30 minutes on my bike looking for snowcone syrup.
but then i passed a 100Lawson and low and behold, they had some. little 210mL bottles for 100yen. i don't know if that's cheap or not, but i anticipate eating snowcones at least through the fall, if not longer, so i have to stock up now because i bet as soon as september 1st hits (or some other arbitrary date that marks the end of summer and beginning of autumn), there won't be a summer treat to be found.
off to sew with my new fabrics for the evening! :)
posted by j. at 7:29 PM
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3 comments:
what a great shopping day! What are you planning to make with it all?
first on my list is a kids' drawstring backpack. i made one already but found lots of room for improvement so i'm still working on a solid pattern for that. plus of course some of my favorite-to-make zippered pouches and eventually i want to try use the invisible zippers on a skirt or top for me. it all sounds pretty ambitious though, so we'll see how far i actually get!
i LOVE your hippy pants, by the way! they are so cute on your kids!!
Sounds great! Looking forward to seeing the pics. I like the foldover parts on the ends of the zips (hmmm, must be a word for these) of the pouches. Makes them really professional-looking. I've heard the invisible zips are pretty tricky compared to their more visible friends. Not sure if this is true or not, but I'm sure you can do it.
Oh, and thanks, re. the hippy pants!!
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