So I Bought the Most Possible Fabric...

:) Are you ready?! LOL!!!!

Last year I thought the Sew Camp looked like a great idea. And this year knew I wanted to go. I'd reminded myself to look into it but forgot until Carolyn mentioned it. Because it was cheaper (and I mean, why not?!) for me to fly into New York than PA, I decided to add a day at the start of the trip. Well...I ended up adding 2. Sort of.

Another Nor'easter was heading for the east coast and I got out just ahead of the storm. I was able to spend about half a day Wednesday and half a day Thursday in NYC.

I visited M & J Trimming before everything shut down Wednesday. I went to see Stomp! on Broadway that night as well. I used LYFT for the first time ever. I'm all grown-up now! :-p

Thursday we had to move up our train down to PA and were able to visit Mood, Pacific Trimming, Metro Textiles and stopped in a couple of other places.

I got made fun of for my Minnesotan-self wearing a lightweight jacket, which was open most of the morning btw, when it was supposedly "cold". :-p

Friday morning we headed to Fabric Mart wherein we spent HOURS (3-4) shopping, laughing, and having a great time. 

Seriously. If you order from them online you HAVE to visit the store at some point. It was really awesome. And, do not let those bags fool you. MOST of us shipped the bulk of our fabric home! :)

One of my fave pics from the weekend!

Carriage Corner Bed & Breakfast is really a fantastic, homey, cozy place. They've decorated beautifully, the food was *AMAZING*, and sew camp is now definitely a once a year plan for me. I was able to finish 4 items (my knit items were hemmed when I got home):

Ottobre 2/2018 top and dress 

Burda 7/2017 pants

McCall's 7627 top for my daughter

I was going to save this for the end but who wants to end wonderfulness with not-so-wonderfulness? Not me! My daughter had a fender bender in my tiny blue car. Sadface. It is currently with the body shop for like, EVER! (or 5-7 business days but, whatev...) She is okay which is what matters.

Moving on!

I snagged some wonderful items while at the B&B; handmade (gorgeous!) wood clapper and shoulder press stand...and through conversations and what not I also managed to order an Ott Lite, Seam Fix seam ripper and Betzina's Fast Fit book from Amazon while we were sitting at our sewing machines! :) I also had the (mis)pleasure (haha! Only because they are so out of my budget right now!!) of using a Huskylock and Bernina serger. Swoon. I love my Brother but yeah, those are definite upgrades. 

And then we had these in our bathrooms to use and I brought a couple home because black makeup towel, marked makeup is TOO cute to pass up!

FABRIC!!!

The first piece of fabric I decided to buy, at Mood

Mood is as overwhelming as you'd think it would be. It's a several hours trip in itself. I can totally see it being the place to shop for something special but not my everyday stash-mania type of store :)

Top: lightweight striped denim, heavier double sided striped denim

Bottom: hand painted tweed suiting, navy wool suiting that's pre interfaced

Next up was Metro Textiles

Much smaller but well curated and Kashi knows his stuff.

Top: Kelly green silk charmeuse, black silk georgette

Bottom: polka-dot silk chiffon, awesome "shingled" white woven

Left: All 3 are a heavy, drapey, super fantastic rayon crepe suiting. I saw the white first and "good" white fabric is hard to come by so I knew I needed. Then I saw the fuchsia and then he showed me the black. DOH! I got 3 yds white, 2 yds black, 1 yd pink

Right: navy tonal suiting, print cotton pique woven, light gray suiting with a little shimmer (hard to capture in a photo)

Kashi found this navy acetate lining for me for my Mood suiting (I snagged 4 yards because I really like the polkadots!)

And I had a swatch of my trench coat fabric and Kashi chose this lining. It's perfect!! 

And then Fabric Mart!!!! 

It was really cool to see the store and get a feel for how things are done. I'm amazed at what all they do with the staff size. I spied a bolt of shirting that I wanted but it was waiting to make it to the website. It's there now...and I'm assuming P-Z will be on sale tomorrow wherein I will buy it. Never mind what I have now. NEVER MIND IT!!!! :-p

Top: precut woven orange with gold stripes (LOVE!), rayon challis (I bought 2 of these 2 yard cuts), rayon challis paisley print (I think 2 or 3 of us got this one)

Bottom: precut rayon crepe challis(!), cotton voile, polyester blouse weight, printed blouseweight woven (I haven't checked the composition of it). The print runs through the center with solid navy on either side.

The orange is a Cotton & Steel print designed by Melody Miller. I love fun selvedges!

The most uneventful photo ever??

Top: camel (it doesn't look like it at all!) wool blend suiting, striped cotton rayon suiting (!), polkadot sweatshirt fabric

Bottom: Kaufman cotton flannel (pjs!), pale pink shirting, light blue striped shirting, white cotton-lycra shirting

You may have seen this next piece on my Instagram (or someone elses! I think 4 of us bought it)...It's a beautiful panel print that's double sided and was just too fun to pass up. Even if I have no idea what to make from it.

And this one I went back and got towards the end, and had to pull stunts to get it home LOL! It's likely synthetic, is a pale blush color, and it's a panel. I feel like I asked for 4 panels but there's a LOT of it. Should be interesting!!!

Lastly, I was surprised by my own disinterest in knits this go round but...I snagged a couple.

Top: cotton knit in grey stripe (used for my Ottobre top), black floral jersey

Bottom: Navy floral double brushed knit, taupe sweater knit

 Pacific Trimming was everything!

And even though their pricing was better, I really liked M & J's selection.

Top 2 from Pacific, all others from M & J.

2nd photo on the right is for the 4/2018 Burda trench. I need another set of the small D-rings though

Ribbing and shoulder pads from Pacific, Stay Tape from Fabric Mart

3 pack of Style Arc patterns (all sizes included!) scored at Fabric Mart

I'm not sure how many yards I bought. I estimated 100 total when I was in FM but I don't think it's that much. Maybe 80. LMAO!

That was an epic post of epicness, right?! It was a really fun weekend and worth every penny I spent and all the sleepiness I'm now experiencing!

I have some reviews to do: S8601, Ottobre 2/2018 x2, M7627, my Burda coat...WHEW! Soon!