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Resources => Your Favourite Suppliers => Topic started by: Margarita on May 11, 2019, 17:54:56 PM
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If I had a fabric store near me like this, I would camp out. If you look at them on Google Maps you can see their wall of buttons! I want that. Does anybody have a store like that nearby?
Stoffland Graz (https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x476e4acf4bdbfd6b%3A0xd755396fcbf0c0ab!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.stoffland.at%2Ffiliale-graz%2F!5sStoffland%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipPUmoju41NawH2Zlt43j8to2oG1l-Z8xzOntQZI&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi196HT9ZPiAhUSMH0KHddvBE0QoiowEXoECA0QBg)
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I don't actually like the way the fabrics are displayed
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Oh the name Graz drew me in! I spent a month there on an exchange just before I left school and it's a place I'd love to revisit, even more so knowing that there is a fabric store!
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Lowena, Which ones? The ones on rolls?
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Oh the name Graz drew me in! I spent a month there on an exchange just before I left school and it's a place I'd love to revisit, even more so knowing that there is a fabric store!
Do you know if this is a chain store operation or just one store? Oh my, all those buttons and such a variety of colors in their zippers.
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Just as well it's many many miles away :P
Although that never stops me I shop online as there's nowt near me anyway :S
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Do you know if this is a chain store operation or just one store? Oh my, all those buttons and such a variety of colors in their zippers.
I Googled it out of curiosity, it's on the southern side of the city, and there seem to be a couple of other branches. I didn't know the other towns though.
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I'm in need of some buttons :button: :button: :button: :button: :button:
Five, maybe six, largish ones that match but are all different colours, for the silk Zambeesi jacket. All I can get locally are cheap nasty things sold for guluiing onto cards.
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I googled Graz as I have never heard of it I am ashamed to say!!
@snoozi soozi I know what you mean about Scunthorpe area. I use Waltons in Goldthorpe (40 mins drive) for fabric but habby isn't that good. Jayleurs in Brigg better for habby, but I miss the Fabric Store at Skippingdales! Thank goodness for t'interweb!!
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I did a school exchange to Austria also, but mine was to Güssing. There was definitely a strong sewing and knitting culture there in the 1980s (more than in the UK at the time).
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I'm in need of some buttons :button: :button: :button: :button: :button:
Five, maybe six, largish ones that match but are all different colours, for the silk Zambeesi jacket. All I can get locally are cheap nasty things sold for guluiing onto cards.
What size and colour @BrendaP?
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Bright red, fuschia pink, phthalo green, purple, lilac and black; about 30mm. :devil:
I did order some from Totally Buttons yesterday evening. We'll see.
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@Lollipop it's sometimes worth looking in Boyes in Brigg too, they have quite a bit of habby, basic fabrics but quite a lot of curtaining stuff. They're cheap, especially calico and polycottons, cheaper than Jaylaurs, although I love Jaylaurs, I don't see the point in spending more for t'same stuff ;)
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Bright red, fuschia pink, phthalo green, purple, lilac and black; about 30mm. :devil:
I did order some from Totally Buttons yesterday evening. We'll see.
I’ve got stacks of odd nice ones...I’ll post a picture when I get home on Tuesday
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If I had a fabric store near me like this, I would camp out. If you look at them on Google Maps you can see their wall of buttons! I want that. Does anybody have a store like that nearby?
Stoffland Graz (https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x476e4acf4bdbfd6b%3A0xd755396fcbf0c0ab!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.stoffland.at%2Ffiliale-graz%2F!5sStoffland%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipPUmoju41NawH2Zlt43j8to2oG1l-Z8xzOntQZI&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi196HT9ZPiAhUSMH0KHddvBE0QoiowEXoECA0QBg)
Hi Magarita,
is it unfair to tell you that this shop is just 30min away from my town? :P
Stoffland is quite a big shop, but I hardly visit them. It's a general fabric shop, but they have no Patchwork fabrics. There are of course some cotton fabrics, but I am not sure about the quality.
They offer a very wide range of fabrics, cotton, denim, canvas, costumes, everything for furniture and garden and bags, and much more... but it's always like a bet, how the quality is. -<
Yes, they have a huge choice and low prices,... but quality is not guaranteed ;)
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is it unfair to tell you that this shop is just 30min away from my town? :P
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Completely unfair, but I'm happy to hear it actually exists and somebody has access to it. I would go for the buttons alone! LOL
Sometimes the hunt for the quality fabric is fun. :D
Thanks for posting about it.
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II usually try to work in a bit of fabric shopping when on holiday I've not been to Graz but I have fabric shopped in Vienna- which was quite expensive.
Last summer I had a load of fabric shopping lined up in Berlin but it just got so hot I abandoned most of the shopping.
This summer we are thinking of the Outer Hebrides where I'm.hoping nit to be too hot.... I can hear the Harris tweed calling....
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Are these of any use @BrendaP
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Thank you @Efemera for that kind offer, but these have now arrived and the colours are good for the jacket.
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Only problem is they need a bigger buttonhole than the Singer buttonholer will make in one pass, so I now have to decide between:
using the buttonholer and shunting the fabric along and then back to make a longer buttonhole >:)
using the 4-step buttonhole on the Husqvarna, which nearly always ends up with non-parallel sides ><
hand sewing the buttonholes :thread:
making bound or piped buttonholes :S
At the moment I'm leaning towards the bound variety, but ...