So I'm moving onto sewing and felt craft! For as long as I can remember I've looked with utter confusion at the piles of fabrics; with complete wonder at clothes/toys/furnishings made by this contraption called a sewing machine. Last Saturday I bit the bullet, stole my mum's sewing machine and hit the fabric stores/bookstores/craft blogs - here are the results!
My modest little fabric pile - augh I could have bought so much more! Poor store assistants, I sucked them dry for information on the differences between the fabrics - but hell I spent enough! The top three are all 100% cotton, I'm hoping to make a little quilt from the yellow ones and maybe a skirt from the red stripy one. The pink fabric is for a secret project, so shhh. I also got a teal one and a grey stretch blend to make dress pants.
My not-so-modest felt pile. These are mixture of different felt materials.. I seem to have this love for the material, probably stemming back to making little toys with it when I was in primary school :3 It's so cheap and versatile; I'm particularly interested in making felt appliques to go onto things. I'm already pretty handy with hand-sewing it's just the sewing machine I have to master!
I <3 Buttons so so so much! I had to buy these cute mix packs, more buttons then you can poke a stick at! Here we also see half of the pretty thread colours I bought to make my fabrics.
Finally, this is the book I bought from Borders. It was fairly exxy @ $55 but it's one hell of a chunky book! It goes into a lot of detail about different sewing techniques and is a really great starting point for a nubcake like me. But in saying that there isn't much in it for exciting 'projects' which is why I want another half a dozen books already haha.
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