Fabric Shopping!

Its really sad how happy the biannual sale at Textile Fabrics makes me, I already have far too much fabric.  I might have to put myself on a fabric shopping freeze after this, I'll get back to you on that.  In my defense, all the fabric in the store was 50% off and the remnants were 75% off . . . 

As always I had a blast looking through their stuff.  The fabric did not come with a free quarter, I added it so you can see how big the prints are.


Item #1 is from the remnants, I think I am going to use it to recreate this awesome linen dress I had a few years ago.  A friend borrowed it for her honeymoon and I never got it back.  Sad face.  Also, that isn't a pink spot, its the flash.

Item #1: white linen. 

I bought this fabric thinking of my nephew.  Maybe a romper or a shirt or something?  I kind of have a thing for masculine prints.

Item #2 Aliens or Molecules?

This is a dress for my sister.  I'm thinking a summer dress with a sweetheart neckline.  It has the colors in our native flag (Woot Woot Argentina) and its super cute albeit a bit morbid, am i the only one who thinks the flowers are bleeding?
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This is an Anna Maria Horner print and I just had to have it.  The color in this pic isn't reading quite right, the background is a beautiful purple.  I'm not sure what this will become but I might have vintage caftan pattern laying around. . .

Jailbird outfit?  I bought this because I wanted to make something out of a knit fabric and this read sophisticated to me (for a knit) until someone asked me if I was going to prison.

And the pies de resistance: I call this one 'vintage ladies'!  I think this will become a purse.  It was too fun to pass up (Especialy at 50%off).

The End.

Gingher Rotary Cutter

I am so excited about the rotary cutter I bought last night.  I often find myself overjoyed about fabric or an off the wall creative idea or some other artsy related interest of mine and I want to tell everyone I talk to about my latest treasure.  But after seeing too many blank stares looking back at me I have realized that there are only a select group of people in the world that can barely contain themselves in a fabric store, these are my people.  If you are reading this, you are probably my people and you might understand how awesome it is that I bought a left handed Gingher rotary cutter for like 16 bucks on Amazon.  It is normally $70 and for all you lefties out there, the right handed one was $45!  I guess there are some perks to being in the 10th percentile of handedness.  My grandmother got me a pair of Gingher left handed scissors a few years back and they have been amazing, I can't wait to try this thing out!

Update:  This thing is amazing!  I am in love, I can't stop gushing about it to anyone who will listen.  For one, it came in a super cute Gingher tin and I am a sucker for packaging.  For my first project I was cutting upholstery fabric and this thing cut thorugh it like butter, I didn't even have to apply alot of presure.  I am very pleased with this purchase.