Hello there my lovely readers! A very happy Monday to you all, I hope you had good weekends. I certainly did as I spent most of my Saturday trotting around the fabric shops of Birmingham with a truly marvellous group of fellow bloggers. Here they are in all their glory!
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| Back Row: Roisin, Alice, Helen, Me, Steph, Helen, Rachel, Mellie, Catherine, Amy and Suzy Front Row: Karen, Winnie, Claire and Kat (Marie was taking the picture and Charlotte had left by this point!) |
This get together was organised by the lovely Kat and Marie and I am so happy that they did! It was a great day, and it was lovely to meet the authors of blogs that I have been reading for a long time (putting a face to the blog if you will!) and meeting lots of new bloggers too. It was the first big blogger meeting that I have been to, and although I was quite nervous on my journey to Birmingham as soon as I met everyone I was instantly put at my ease and soon we were all chatting away like old friends :) I can't tell you how nice it was to spend a whole day talking about sewing, notions, fabric, patterns, knitting and generally all things crafty. If you want the details of our day out then check out Marie's post, she'll give you low down of everywhere we went and what we got up to! (Lots of other bloggers from the meet up have already blogged about our adventures too, so if you're interested you can also check out Rachel, Karen, Helen, Amy, Alice, Roisin and Helen's blogs!)
Anyways, want to see my swag??
After one of the most amazing swaps I have ever seen (I may have brought a few too many patterns with me...!) I walked away with three vintage knitting patterns, two gorgeous dress patterns, a whole load of yarn and, can you believe it, my very own sleeve board complete with cover! How lucky am I? I can't believe that I got all these lovelies for FREE. Amazing :)
When it came to the actual purchasing of fabrics at the amazing Rag Market I was fairly reserved. After all six metres of wool isn't too much, is it?! I spotted the most beautiful tan italian wool on one of the stalls of the outdoor market almost as soon as we started to browse and I fell in love. When I learnt that it was £5 per metre I was sold. It's so soft I have been obsessively stroking it ever since I got it home! My second and final purchase of the day was from the indoor market. Helen and I spotted this beautiful claret wool at the same time and we both came away with 3 metres of it. Perhaps at the next blogger meet up we'll be sporting matching outfits? :)
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| General wooly goodness! |
And I've already picked out a couple of patterns from my stash for these wools, have a look at what I'm planning...
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| A New Look style suit in Italian Wool, happy days! |
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| Gertie's Wiggle Dress would look so gorgeous in this colour! |
It was a wonderful day and I'm very much looking forward to (and hoping for!) the next one! Thanks girls for making the day so great, it was so lovely to meet every one of you :)
Katie xxx
P.S. The beady eyed among you may have noticed that I might be wearing a plaid cape in the above picture... Yes, it's finished! I will be getting the last few construction posts up over the next couple of days before it's big blog reveal, but rest assured it was a great success and was ridiculously comfy to wear!
8 comments:
It was great meeting you. Your cape is GORGEOUS!
I concur with Suzy - that cape and skirt really were fantastic! Great meeting you at the weekend. I think that New Look style suit will look lovely in that wool. Can't wait to see it!
Fabulous to meet you at last, Katie! I hope we can do it again before too long :) x
It was so great meeting you - I loved your cape and really just the whole outfit (the hat really was the finishing touch). I still couldn't believe how many patterns you brought with you! I feel so lucky to have taken a couple home with me ;-) Thank you X
I spied your cape on Debi's blog, it looks stunning! What a fabulous meetup, and a great haul! Can't wait to see what you do with the fabic. That suit pattern is fab.
Lovely!! Your cape is looking fantastic! I spied it on Roisin's blog :)
I'm so happy that we got to be part of your first 'big' blogger meet-up and I'm over the moon that you had a great time. Kat and I did too, it was such a pleasure to meet you and other new faces too!
Wow you really got some great stuff! The New Look suit and Gertie dress are going to be gorgeous.
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