Our Fabric Stash - Fabric Consignment Store

 

What a great idea. Our Fabric Stash is a fabric consignment store. Right in my city. I had to go check it out.

 

They are having their semi-annual sale this weekend. When I visited the shop, I was told that the deep discount happens on the second day. 50% off marked price.

 

 

If you live in or near Seattle, or if you are visiting anywhere near Seattle, you may want to stop by.  It's on the north edge of Seattle's International District (which means, yum! to me). You can check out the shop, and you can go get yummy lunch or dinner at one of many Asian restaurants in the International District. You can also stop by one or more of many Asian grocery stores. It's a lot of fun.

It is fairly well organized.

Suiting. I saw many nice wool fabrics.

Colorful. Knits on the bottom two shelves.

Swimsuit fabric!

Bolts, too.  The young woman at the shop told me that many local designers consign with them.

Look at that fabric! lol!

They have patterns, too.

Oh, so beautiful. Vintage patterns!

 

They had bagged collection of knit ribbing fabric pieces . Handy to have around.....

Thread cones.

Here is the nice young woman who helped me. (I bought some patterns!) She told me that the store is her God mother's brain child.

I was originally going to organize a meet-up for Seattle area sewists and fabric lovers this weekend for the sale.  But there is so much going on this weekend for me, and I'm just not sure which day and what time I can make it there.  So, if you are in the Seattle area, and go to the sale, I *may* see you~!  Have a great weekend!

Vintage Binge

A sweet little sewing box, isn't it? My recent Craigslist find. Of course, I wasn't looking for one. I just typed "sewing" in the search box and this popped up for me. What can I do?! 

Within a few miles and half an hour later, it made it home to my sewing room. Happy birthday to me, as I officially enter into my Birthday Month.

Here is the back view. It's on little delicate wheels, and it is super light.

It opens up like this. 

Just a few little scratches here, but overall in great shape.

I love the clean and simple design of many European made furniture.

My Internet search resulted in "Mid century teak Danish Sewing Box" from 60's~70's. There is a label on the bottom of this box.  At any rate, I just think this is very sweet. <3

Then there are these that found me when I walked into a thrift store, looking for a big white sheet as my son needed a toga robe type costume as he was playing Sophocles at his school's mock trial. (Yes, I found a king size white sheet.)

Wow! All these (minus the men's shirt pattern) are right about my size. I've found a stack like this before and I've taken them home although they were not exactly my size. 

This time, whoever had these patterns was about the same size as I am!

This skirt looks so sweet. (ok, I know, I'm overusing this word today, but sweet is sweet.) I'd love to make one for me very soon.

As soon as I got home, I opened them all up to see if all pieces were intact. They ALL were. Some were not even ever unfolded and used.

However, there were two that didn't have the instructions. This blouse pattern is one.

Mmmmm, I'd love to make this suit. But I don't think I'm experienced enough to be able to sew a jacket like this without a guide. Maybe save this for someday when my skills are better. 

Lovely dress with wrap skirt.

Even a night gown pattern. 

This, I may try for my son. He likes this sort of style, very basic, casual and boxy manly shirt. 

I've always been interested in vintage patterns, but I have never used one. The tissues of these patterns have no writings on it. The pieces are hole punched with alphabets for organization and all the marks are made on the tissues with little holes punched out. 

Have you ever sewn a vintage pattern? How did you like it?  I'm looking forward to trying some soon!

It wasn't my binging. It's these vintage items who want to keep finding me. Really. 

I'm aaaaaalmost done with a knitting project. Can't wait to finish it~! But you know, the last 10% is the hardest and seems to take the longest. I'm in the homestretch now.  Just a liiii~ttle sneak peek here.