So off i popped at lunchtime today to the fabric shop in good ole Canterbury, and had to eventually ask one of the lovely assistants in there as to where I might find one...needless to say I was standing right in front of them!
and while I was in there, I had a little browse around their 'remnant' table. I have a few top/shirt/blouse patterns that I'm quite liking at the moment and my hand came to rest on 1.6 metres of this lovely dotty blue cotton:
I've spent the evening cutting out the pattern I want to use: Simplicity 2255 - I'm going for view D...but knowing me, I'll see if I can make a couple of 'tweaks' to it!
Tomorrow I shall pop along to see the lovely Jim at The Sewing Centre in Ashford to see if I can lay my grubby little mitts on some faux pearl buttons (the little ball type things...they probably have a far more technical/haberdasheryesque name but I'll be jingo-ed if I can think what they might be called!).
I probably won't start sewing it up until Tuesday when I'll be having another sneaky day off work...and the weather is forecast to be a little less pleasant than what we're due to be in store for over the weekend!
When I left said fabric shop (and received a little £5 gift voucher for filling up my loyalty card - bonus!!) and happened to stroll passed a fabric stall at Canterbury Market.
I've bought from them in the past (the spotty and butterfly fabrics that I made some half aprons out of)...and there, tucked under some other rolls, was the most perfect fabric I seen for a roman blind I've been wanting to make for my bathroom! Completely perfect in everyway! cheap (£5 per metre) and matches both the little tea light lanterns I was given as a gift some years ago and keep in my bathroom, and the fused-glass beach huts I made back in September 2013 with my friend Jane at the lovely Alma Caira beginners workshop in Whitstable ( https://www.facebook.com/AlmaCairaFusedGlass?ref=profile )
lovely new sea-side fabric - waiting to be turned into a roman blind (note how well they go with the little tea light lanterns)
my fishermans net hut and beach huts - fused glass
now all I need to do is find out how to make the blind!!! :-)
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