Happy 2012!
It's a whole new year.What's new?
A whole lot of fabric.
This year the shipments from Market have been coming in fast! I still have one more due in any time now, and you saw the Missoni knits on the home page.
Silks!
- Two charmeuses – black and wine.
- Two lighter-weight silks – black and teal.
- And a print I can't even begin to describe.
Rayon prints.
Black with teal and purple flowers, and that grey leopard that's third from left in the bolts below.
Wools.
Light grey with Lycra and charcoal are above; we also got micro-check navy, solid navy and solid black.
Plus . . .
We have some nice wools, too. Here's a camel-colored basket-weave coating, with one of our new rayon prints, and below that is a black boiled wool.
Other wools we got in:
- Two black-and-greys with texture.
- A black-and-grey herringbone.
- Two navy blends - a viscose/wool/spandex and a wool/silk.
Check out this reversible acrylic!
This would be great for a jacket or a bag. It looks beige itn the picture, but it's really more of a gold, so it's kind of dressy. But you know - the cool kids are wearing glitz and shine with jeans even in the daytime these days.
New poly ITY knits.
Here are just two of a whole collection that also includes:
- Black with white polka-dots of several different sizes;
- Blue with white in a print that looks like batik;
- Black with a feather design in teal, red, yellow, brown and rust. (I think that's it over next to the camel wool at lower left.)
Actually, the red isn't an ITY, now that I think of it. But it's pretty up there with the swirl print, so I'm leaving it. We also have a poly knit that looks like an animal print.
About those rayon prints:
They're finally here, just as the weather gets cold! Thank goodness for hot flashes.
Come see:
- That black one over in the picture with the camel-colored wool has a copper and purple print.
- Another one has black and red, with red and olive flowers and leaves.
- A third one with a black background has pinkish red, pink, orange and a a touch of green. That might be the one at the bottom of this list.
- The last one has a black background, too, with a hint of teal and purple.
All of them have a hint of silver thoughout – not gaudy, just a little sparkle. Again, more of that glitz-for-day trend we're seeing everywhere.
Other knits.
Cotton/Lycras: black, a navy/magenta minicheck and solid red. A cotton/poly animal print. (I've seen this one made up into a top, and it's really nice.) A grey that's reversible – light grey and dark grey.
Also, an off-white crinkle-knit gauze; a black acrylic nylon sewater knit; a black boucle fleece – and this cream sweater knit that burns like wool but doesn't itch like it.
Even our webmaster didn't get an itch. And she gets itchy from 10% cashmere/cotton blends!
Winter glam.
This poly taffeta could go to a college formal . . .does anyone still do that? Or over skinny black pants.
We also have two that are crushed - a red and a grey - to up your shine quotient for this season's parties.
And how about a few sequins?
These have been in the store for a while, but we also got in some new sequined offerings. One is black and blue, and one is red and black. Sequined tops under jackets are the thing this year, for day and night, as everyone keeps telling me.
I do know that one of us had a college-age daughter home, and she wore a sequined tank over jeans for Thanksgiving dinner.
It looked fresh and new, and it struck the perfect balance between dressy and casual. I think she said it was cream and silver.
Another sequined fabric just came in, but it's not shiny. It's more of a silver metallic look – I have to have a top out of that!
Finally, in the glitz department: a black cotton/spandex with a silver pinstripe.
New patterns.
Pamela's Patterns has a couple of new cardigans. As Pamela herself says, "Cardigans are tone of the best accessories you can add to your wardrobe. Never out of style, [they're] where function meets fashion head-on."
The pattern numbers are #110 and #111, respectively.
Coming events!
Check the Events page for dates on our winter goings-on:
- The New Year's Day Party and Sale;
- The Super Sunday Sewing Party;
- And June's next big fashion show, It's Just a Tee.
Cheers and chocolate,
Dr. Cindy Feelgood
The Fabriholic's
Sewing Therapist