Since I bought my new sewing machine, I really wanted to start sewing again. I have a few books with patterns I want to make but had no fabrics. I checked a few markets last few weeks for nice fabrics but could not really find anything I liked for a price I liked, so the waiting was on the fabric event at Boss en Lommer in Amsterdam today June 24. I found lots of fabrics and could easily have bought more but one has to stop at one point. The weather was bad. I was there early, but it was already very crowded so I started at the other side of the market where there where less people so at least I would get a shot at buying some nice fabrics for a good price. It was raining the whole time, that was in my advantage I think, because it was very crowded and it was hard to get to some stalls. If it had been a nice and sunny day or even just not raining there would have been more people, I am sure. I did not like the rain but today I did not complained too much about it.

And here are the fabrics I bought today:

White lace for curtains in Anarosa her tabletent, a sheer lilac roses fabric to go with the lilac satin, think im going to make a top and shorts from those. The pink fabric is stretch and Although I have plenty of that I will make at least leggings for Anarosa from that.

The pink fabric is a lil thicker stretch material I will use for a lil jacket with stretch pants for me and the sheer yellow with flowers I am thinking to make a top out of or a dress. not sure yet. The creme color fabric is suedine, not sure what I will use it for but it was only 1 euros a meter

I have no Idea what I will make out of these . The one with the lil roses needs no ironing at all, the light pink fabric I might make a stretch longsleeve out, the darker pink is thicker material and I might use for a pair of pants for Anarosa with a lil jacket. The towel fabric I have no idea what I will do with yet.

Of course when I have made something from these fabrics, I will show it here. 🙂

I had been thinking about buying a new sewing machine for a while, but never really had the extra money for it because there where always so many other things that needed to be taken care of first. Now we are finally caught up with a lot of these things I started thinking more seriously about a new sewing machine again. I have been looking on several websites and after some research and checking with my mom, who happens to work in a needle craft store where they also sell sewing machines, I decided to buy a Singer, model 1120. It was a used machine but completely checked and tested. The store where I bought it is a regular sewing machine store which has been existing since a long time. I received the machine today and tested it out. It looks pretty much like new as if its never been used and works fine. I have to get used to it though because my old machine only knew two different stitches.. straight and zigzag. I could change the stitch length and width and back and forth but that’s as fancy as it would get. This new sewing machine has I dunno how many stitches and its going to take me a bit to just learn how to use the regular ones even. Hopefully it will run as long as my old one which is at least 30 years old. Anyway that was kinda the highlight of my day and had to share it :).