Back and Feeling Sunny: Barcelona Haul

Good Afternoon lovely people.

I am back from the lovely Barcelona and I come bearing photos!

As always I had to track down a fabric shop. The lovely Zoe recommended Ribes I Casals and boy was she right!

Brighton is rubbish for fabric compared to this place! It was HUGE. I mean really vast. Full to the Brim with lovely fabrics in every colour you can imagine.

Here I am gleeful with my arms full! (Bless my lovely Mister for looking up from his DS to patiently take this photo of me running around squealing at everything.)

So what did I buy I hear you ask.

This beautiful pile came to... (Drumroll) 70 euro? 50? 30? No my friends 23 EUROS!!!!!

23!?! That would easily cost me £40 in the UK! Thats 12+ Meters of fabric!

Ok so here is the rundown of what I got.

Lightweight herringbone wool tweed (Tropical weight maybe?) In a lovely minty green

The same in a coral colour, This photo is more accurate on colour for both!

Minty green cotton probably a poplin

Pink and cocoa coloured stretchy crepe. (nothing has labels on and I was in too much of a tizz to look so I am guessing a bit) This was 1.50 for 2 Euro! The icing came in this amazing cotton.

2 Meters 30 and cost... 6 euro. It is sooo beautiful and will make an amazing summery dress. ( I know I know I said separates! But a girl can dream!)

Have a lovely spring day! I will leave you with my favorite photo from the trip, even though Im not sure what is going on with my fringe.

BARCELONA BREAK!

Hello my lovlies.
As most of you know I am off in the stupidly early hours of the morning to Barcelona for a week!
Sadly this means no blogging (If I can resist)
So a little break is in order!
Have a fab Week and I will be back with no doubt lots of photos and quite possibly more lovely fabric that I don't need

Calling Guest Posters...

As you all know I'm off to sunny Barcelona next week for 5 days and so that you are not left with nothing to read for that inordinate amount of time I was wondering if any of you would like to guest post next week some time for me.
Criteria:
You must have a sewing related blog
Must have a lovely smile
be willing to introduce yourself and answer a few basic questions
re- blog your post on your own blog.
Thats all my lovelies!
just leave a comment at the bottom!

This is better... Progress!

My Barcelona Jacket is a little further on! I finished uni stuff a bit early so I thought I'd put in a little bit of sewing time. The first bits went together pretty easily. But I'm finding as usual I am going dime to the dozen and not reading the instructions. I started putting sleeves together without even starting on the lining Doh!

The sleeves are pretty but the super strong interfacing I had is not really such a good idea. If I make this again i'll remember to buy thinner weight. Still at least I'm sewing again for a bit!

I'm also stuck on what would be the best lining for this. I have 3 contenders.

I have the original plan a flimsy poly in a kind of minty green,

Pale pink slightly stretchy cream poly

Or this cute striped Grey and pink? What do you think?