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!

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

Új hírek / News

Megnéztem a statisztikát a honlapon, és a látogatók nemzetiségét látva elhatároztam, hogy a blogom kétnyelvű lesz. Visszamenőlegesen beírogatom az angol szövegeket, hátha a régi bejegyzésekre is kíváncsiak a nagyvilágból! Először mindig a magyarral kezdem, és utána dőlt betűkkel lesz az angol - legalábbis amíg tart a lendületem...

I have checked statistics on the homepage and seeing the nationalities of the visitors I have decided to make my blog bilingual. I will do it retrospectively, maybe the world is interested in the past as well! I will start with the Hungarian version and the English one will be in italics - at least till I am in the mood...

Közben töltögettem a készleteimet: a sarki méterárú boltba akciós Zweigart anyagok érkeztek, 2800ért vettem 32cts Luganat (más boltban 10ezer alatt még nem láttam) szereztem Hardangerhez egy kicsi darab lila és zöld háttérvásznat, Anchor perlét, és még a Victoria Sampleres Heirloom Nativity-t is megrendeltem!

Ma útnak indult, remélem ez ideér, kicsit aggódok a tengerentúli posta miatt, de az európai netes boltokban nem láttam az ajánlott anyagot (Zweigart Smokey Pearl). A Chatelaine csomagról azóta sincs semmi hír, áprilisban rendeltem, májusban indult el, és most már augusztus van. Kap még 4 nap haladékot, ha addig sincs semmi jel, akkor újra elküldetem. Szomorú vagyok.

In the meantime I was uploadig my stash (do you remember the motto on the stash page?). There is a big sale of Zweigart in the local fabric shop, I have bought Zweigart Lugana for less than 15$/yard and I have found some blue and green material to use as a background for my future Hardanger design. I have also got some Anchor Perle in different colours. I have ordered Heirloom Nativity from Victoria Samplers!

It was posted yesterday, I am a little bit anxious about the oversea package, but I could not find the recommended fabric (Zweigart Smokey Pearl) on the european sites. There is still no news from my Chatelaine kits which were ordered in April, posted in May - and now it is August. I give them 4 more days and if there is not sign I will reorder them. I am quite sad.