Cotton fabric

 I have bought quite a lot cotton fabric in my neighbouring discount fabric store in 2022 November. All of them are knits, width 100cm. Purple 40cm, striped 150cm, kiwi 150cm, blue 200cm.

There was also 2m 1,50 width fauxfur

 Price 6550 for all

Fabric shopping part 2

I was waiting for a specific navy blue fabric arrived finally, and I managed to get it at least! Due to Covid there was a shortage of navy fabric in my favourite shop, all the dark fabric was in delay for weeks. I was asking the owners whether it has arrived, and the answer was "not yet". One afternoon I had a little free time, and I thought I will drop by to check some other fabric, and voila - the navy was sitting on the shelf -arrived just that morning!

I have bought some white yards as well, and some blues to add to the mix all 11.5metres added to the 15m bought in the summer - 26.5metres in total:

• 2m white-on-white 
• 3m white-on-white slightly beige
• 1m white-on-cream
• 1m flowery cream

• 0.5 steelblue
• 0.5m medium blue
• 1m dark blue
• 2m navy

• 0.5 m flanel - I made some boards with this

I also bought some 36 and 40 ct linen for cross stitch beginning of September. I have died them with tea, so I have several choices for my Long Dog Samplers. I opted finally for the 32ct Belfast linen.

Fabric shopping

It was quite a long time ago that I have bought any fabric (I have more than enough), but I realised that I am out of some essentials, so there I went. I needed some solids for the Round the Year circles, some white to do the choice of my niece and some roses for my mother's rose quilt, and some wood for the Winter Maize. I have added a newspaper print because I liked it a lot. 

It seems quite a few pieces, but actually it is quite a lot, almost 15m:

• 3+3x1m of whites (2 cream based, 2 white-white)
• 3x1m of roses 
• 2x0.5m light blue
• 1m royal blue
• 0.7m steel
• 2m dark blue
• 0.5m wood
• 0.5m newsprint (actually some French dictionary print)

I also bought 5m of normal batting (550), and 2m of special called gloves batting (700)

At the end it turned out there was a "slight" communication gap concerning my mother's quilt - she chose the small rose fabric from my stash because she liked the pink background not the flowers, and when she was talking about wanting a rose quilt she meant a pinkish one with flowers. But she was kind about it an said whatever I do will be nice anyway - so the bar is raised: it is even more difficult to come up with something!

In June I also went to Ikea to get some basic material. I really like their Bomull, because it is perfect for smaller backings - neutral color, unbleached, so an eco-friendly green choice, for an extremely competitive price. I got 3meters, and as an addition 2x0.5m of strong bad material from their season's design. Last time I bought Bomull it was in 2018, when I got 5meters, and I just used up the last pieces this year for the strings of the masks I made.

All together it is 19m of new textiles and 7m of batting, what I got in in 2020. I am always trying to buy less fabric than I use in my finishes (7m this year...), but I never manage!

Materials for clothes - reminder what I have seen where

Váci út  - cotton 2100-2600

 Váci út  - linen 2500-2600

Eurotextil Erzsébet körút - cotton

Eurotextil Erzsébet körút - linen

Thread Rózsa utca

Máthé textil Keleti, cotton for winter

Práter utca pamutjersey 2200 95% cotton, 5% elasthan t shirt, 2980 for winter

Fabric for clothes - a lot went to my inventory!

After finishing my trial pieces, I started to buy better quality fabric in the last month. I have bought a 1,3m mixed linen/cotton and a 3m T-thirt material I have mentioned in Vaci út, and also some very nice 100% cotton for my working shirts .

Then I went to a fabric outlet (Diffusione Tessile), where I bought beautiful 100%linen:

0,8m dark blue 0,8m light blue, 1,2m light blue with a little purple sheen, 1,6m purple, 1,6m natural beige. The price was 1350/m - originally 2000/m but there was a 30% sale. (The orange it the same as above.)

and some more shirt materials, all of them 1,6m, price same, 1350/m instead of 2000/m. It is a mixed cotton-elasthan material

I also bought a denim like 100% beige cotton, 1,6x1,5, 2700/m instead 4000

I finished with some t shirt materials:

Erzsébet körút Eurotextil, 2000/m 100% cotton, 1,x1,4m piece

Erzsébet körút Eurotextil, 2200/m 100% cotton  0,8x1,8m dark blue, 0,7x1,8 light blue piece

 I also found in the discount chain a very nice 100% cotton material. There were some holes in the material, so the 2,0x1,4 piece was 720HUF (~2EUR), originally 490/m

Materials bought: 27m - adding the previous 6m it is 33m - huh, it is a lot!

• linen: 7,3m
• pamutjersey/mix: 7m
• denimlike cotton: 1,6m
• shirt cotton&like: 11m

Until now I have created using 7m fabric:

• 2 t-shirts - 2x0,8m 1 trial 1 quality fabric
• 1 comfy pant - 1m - trial fabric
• 1 pant discarded - old fabric 1,2m 
• 2 shorts (+2 trials discarded) - 3x0,8m + 0,5m all old fabric from quilt backing materials
• 2 shirts (+1 trial baby piece) - 2x1,5m 1 trial, 1 quality fabric (trial given by the sewing school)
• 1 dress - 1.5m trial fabric

Trial pieces - woman's shirt, ranglan T shirt, comfy pants

To have a new hobby brings the joy of buying materials -  a lot:)

First I started with a heavy discount chain called I love textil, where you can buy 1yard for an eur, more expensive materials even go up to 1.5eur/yard. I bought some different ones to practice with and test patterns. Somehow I am really attracted to lilac now...

Fabric bought: 6,2m

• 1.5m purple shirt poliester
• 1.5m purple dress cotton-elasthan
• 2m sand pique cotton
• 1.2m poliester velvet

Women's shirt from the lilac - it was quite a struggle, but I managed it. However since the material is poliester it is not good for daily use, and also it was a little tight I will give it to my cousin, because it suits her really well. I need some buttonsbuttonholes, and I have to finish the seams as well, and add a hemming to the bottom.  

Elastic ranglan shirt from the white one - I wrote a separate post on the t-shirt, here is the trial version - this also goes to my cousin, she is forgiving all my errors.

Last but not least I also sewed a very comfy pant to be lazy at home. This stays with me, I can hardly wait for a colder weather, I was looking for such pant for years! The start was from an overall, what I totally changed. It is pants, not overall, I did not add the pockets, made it significantly slimmer - I realised Burda patterns are not for me. I cannot decide on the size, and regardless that the numbers are fitting, clothes are 2 size bigger than me, and I can hardly find any pattern I like. So I will not look for them at all.

I see I really have to improve my clothes photoing technique, they look quite awful here, trust me in real life I am extremely proud all of them.

I also sewed up a dress, it is a very simple one, but I learned the hidden zipper, what I have actually ripped off at the end. The material is somewhat stretchy, so there is no need for zippers...I learned interfacing, setting in darts, hemming the dress.