After about a half hour of wandering around confusedly, I found Karlin’s Fabrics over on 8th Street in Philadelphia today. What a cute little store!!! I kind of feel like it’s in another time or something. A lot of the fabric looked vintage (I sat for a long time in the wool section debating on buying some adorable 60′s plaid for a coat) and they had a great selection of remnant fabrics. I went in specifically to buy the fabric for that tiered dress project that I can’t shut up about. I could not find teal fabric anywhere. There was cotton, but that just wouldn’t do. So, after about an hour of setting up camp and holding things up to the light, I decided on a champagne colored sating and a black chiffon.
This combination could go several ways…It could look like some kind of 50s cocktail dress (what I’m hoping for) or a bad bridesmaid dress. Luckily, I think the colors look very luxe together, so it probably won’t be very bad.
And, for the initial muslin, I wanted to use something fun, so I picked up a greyish seersucker with white polka dots and a gray contrast cotton. I should have picked something similar to the satin, to see how they behave, but one look at that seersucker and I was sold indefinitely.
Pictures to follow.
OoOoO I loooovveee new fabric! Especially the expensive kind! I can’t wait to see what you make with it.
I have nominated your for the Kreativ blogger award and here is the link http://sewithought.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/my-first-award/. Yay!