19 January 2011

Revelling in fabric

I've made some recent fabric acquisitions, along with a couple fabric splurges ... aided and abetted by sales, of course.  This afternoon, I decided to pull out my fabrics and take photos - always a good excuse to fondle the fabric!  Here we go:
From left to right: charcoal grey wool coating, lavender silk dupioni, emerald silk/rayon satin, a cotton that has the texture of linen, and a soft cotton flannel.  Not pictured is the 15 yards of unbleached cotton muslin I scored for only 59 cents per yard.  Now, for the splurges:
This one I paid regular price for ... a red silk jacquard.  It's a bit difficult to photograph properly, but I think y'all can get the idea from this.  Another splurge (on sale even!)
Silk charmeuse, that has been on my "wishlist" at FM for well over a month ... and it finally went half off!  I adore the wild large print and the colors.  I need to find the "perfect" pattern for a long tunic to show it off.
Now, I have some mystery bundle fabrics ... and I am still on the fence about getting these or not.  First, the fabrics I think I can do something with:
I just discovered this afternoon the teal on the far left is silk ... a ravel thread was stuck to the glitter stretch velvet, and I tried to snap it.  No dice.  That's when I finally saw the small piece of tape in the corner: "2-silk".  The burn test confirmed this.  I'll certainly think of something for it ... now for fabrics where I am scratching my head - or working on a trade:
Knit - knit - stretch woven.  There's also a white knit and a brown stretch woven that didn't want to photograph right.  The salmon/coral on the right is not accurately depicted, and neither is the light taupe-ish knit on the left.  Heck, for that matter the dots on the knit in the middle are a very pale peachish.  Oh well ...

And oh joy ... the other silk/rayon brocades went half off yesterday!  I have no willpower when it comes to these ... had to get 3 more to complement my lovely red floral splurge.  Hopefully, that box will arrive by Saturday.

3 comments:

Rebecca said...

The silk charmeuse is gorgeous! The teal silk is also really pretty.

dfr2010 said...

The charmeuse was definitely worth the ait. On one hand, I want to make something of it wuickly ... on the other hand, it's really nice silk! And I want the pattern to be "perfect" for it. *sigh* Decisions ...

glorm said...

Wow--you made some good choices.