Lady Carmichael: the FABRIC!! :D

Hi lovelies!

You may recall from my last post that the swatch from online was Not Quite Right. It was too green, and I was pretty grumpy about it.

So! Before I settled for it (which I was prepared to do), I took a jaunt into San Francisco and did an epic tour of a BUNCH of fabric stores. What did I learn? Jacquard doesn't come the color I need. I found beautiful cotton jacquards in pastel pink, burgundy, lemon yellow (? I don't know why either), and neon orange (???).

As I was giving up, I got a lead on a warehouse style discount fabric store in Berkeley. So the next day I took a detour coming home from work. LO AND BEHOLD! In the beautiful, huge upholstery section was this:

jacquard Color representation isn't great on the cell phone picture. more jacquard But the pattern! The color! The fabric weight! It's perfect!

I can more forward now! :D And the only other internet purchase I have now is the cameo (I have my mother-in-law's box of costume jewelry to dig through first, though).

Woohoo! I can get back to sewing!!