I had the good fortune to find myself in Manhattan on Monday, with a couple hours to shop for fabric. I was looking for beefy knits in solid colors.
And this is what I got:
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viscose knit jersey |
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rayon knit jersey |
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the upper piece is woven, lower piece is a coordinating knit |
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light weight stretch cotton woven |
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rayon jersey |
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cotton voile (also comes in a knit which I didn’t see until I got home and looked at their website) |
I didn’t have the right energy to mount a serious search for solid colors, so I let myself drift into emotional shopping. Perhaps the recent shift to Daylight Savings Time left me feeling a little tired and droopy.
Most of these came from Elliott Berman Textiles in the garment district. It is a small-ish operation on the 7th floor of an office building, set up more like a warehouse than a shop. For the quality, the prices are reasonable. More and more, high quality matters to me. I suppose my sewing skills have finally become dependable enough to trust that I will not ruin the fabric. {knock on wood}
My stash is now officially built back up to maximum! I had sewn it down, but of course, that didn’t last long.
And the world goes round and round, just as it should.