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The Emporia => Fun with Fabric => Topic started by: jen on December 27, 2017, 13:05:18 PM
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Demented One, you know that skirt? Browsing as you do, I thought of you and it when I saw this
https://www.joelandsonfabrics.com/uk/offers/winter-sale/13563
Just saying.
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I saw this (https://www.joelandsonfabrics.com/uk/6763) and nearly fainted at the price. You really need to know what you are doing before spending this kind of money.
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I saw this (https://www.joelandsonfabrics.com/uk/6763) and nearly fainted at the price. You really need to know what you are doing before spending this kind of money.
Good grief! it really is fabulous though
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oooooh!
Well if the skirt gets made for steampunk, I'm going for cheap and cheerful...for the Westwood inspired suit, I could be persuaded to splash out a bit [as long as I make elastic waistbands, it will last!]
I've had my eye on this glory from Truro fabricsfor some years now:
https://www.trurofabrics.com/cornish-tartan-silk-hunting.html (https://www.trurofabrics.com/cornish-tartan-silk-hunting.html)
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Er... how many metres does it take?
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Dunno, but lots lol, maybe 5m?. It won't be for wearing to work after all, so I'm not forking out for top notch fabrics for this one(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/25994521_10159721545865076_3619945340653167947_n.jpg?oh=b0625c6171fa738b3f1a790af99005f7&oe=5AB36CAB)
However, THIS one may get something POSH
(http://oki-style.de/images/product_images/popup_images/rocksasha6.jpg)
Which takes about 2.5m
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Ooh er, missus.
I rather like this
(https://voguepatterns.mccall.com/sites/default/files/styles/p_l/public/products/v8956/V8956_a.jpg)
and MimiG used a rather bold check (http://mimigstyle.com/diy-plaid-skirt-patter-review-v8956/) to make her too short version.
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I'll be making up this one for part of my SWAP, in something fairly ordinary
(https://voguepatterns.mccall.com/sites/default/files/styles/p_xl/public/products/v9114/V9114_08.jpg?itok=KgkqdfHJ)
And have reclaimed the Koos van den Akker skirt I made for Dawn [she only wore it once] as it fits the SWAP rules nicely. I wear my purple versiona lot in winter [it's wool, so too warm for summer!]
(https://i.imgur.com/zfwgRl2.jpg)
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I much preferred the striped top
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/dc/c9/37/dcc937b164f5585cadbc6a57d1a1b8ea--modern-patterns-skirt-patterns.jpg)
Did you have a go at this?
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Yum. Fabulous skirts and fabulous silks (and fabulous prices). I'm not really a skirt person as to wear a skirt sucessfully you've got to have a waist, right? However after seeing this little lot I could definitely be persuaded, waist or no waist.
I've just bought the Joker shirt pattern from the Oki website and once I can muster the energy to print it out and stick it together I'll give it a go. I'm still too sellotaped out after present wrapping at the moment.
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Hi Tamnymore- you HAVE met me yeah? lol no waist here, none whatsoever. Unless I wear a corset of course...
My skirts mostly have elastic bands, and I wear them with untucked tops or tunics. THese 'art teacher chic' styles are easy to wear, basically secret pyjamas with a bit of style thrown in. Give 'em a go!
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DF, we have yet to meet but I feel I've known you for years. :D
Yes, I am very familiar with the joys of elastic. So much so that many years back when I was at a conference in Vancouver and while bunking off .... err I mean during a break in proceedings... I came across my favourite waistband elastic (in the delightfully named Fanny's Fabrics) at a fraction of its UK price. I stocked up with enough to pay for my air fare in savings. My friend couldn't understand why I was smuggling through customs vast quantities of what she assumed was knicker elastic.
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I've had my eye on this glory from Truro fabricsfor some years now:
https://www.trurofabrics.com/cornish-tartan-silk-hunting.html (https://www.trurofabrics.com/cornish-tartan-silk-hunting.html)
Oh that is rather yummy!
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I like all of those skirts. Just pondering whether they would look interestingly arty or plain daft on me.
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I equate 'daft' with 'interestingly arty' in any case, so, swings and roundabouts lol. I get more compliments than puzzled looks when I wear such garb so I think that's mainly a win!
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I came across my favourite waistband elastic (in the delightfully named Fanny's Fabrics) at a fraction of its UK price. I stocked up with enough to pay for my air fare in savings.
Thanks for throwing that little reference in! My sister stays in North Vancouver and now I have somewhere fabric related to head for when I visit again in September. :D
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Thanks for throwing that little reference in! My sister stays in North Vancouver and now I have somewhere fabric related to head for when I visit again in September. :D
I know this is an older post, but thought I might jump in as Fanny’s has not been in business here in BC for quite some time and more recently, the rest of Canada. Fabricland is still here and there and when in the Greater Vancouver area, Fabricana (Richmond and Coquitlam) is my favourite!
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Yes I noticed when I googled some years ago that Fanny's was out of business. When I visited they joined me in Fanny''s Fabric Club as a senior to get a better reduction on patterns even though I was nowhere near a senior at the time (it was some years ago, ahem!) I was most impressed that they let the customer look in the pattern drawers. You NEVER get to do that in the UK. I carried my membership card around for years in happy memory. Must get back to Vancouver, Fanny's or no Fanny's.
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Me too...into The Keg for a big juicy fillet, up and down Robson Street a time or two and then straight up the Sea To Sky..... shwoosh shwoosh shwoosh.... :loveit: