Instead of my usual trip downtown to the fabric district I tried going to Orfus Road to check out one of the few remaining Fabriclands in the city. I was mostly disappointed with the Fabricland. Not a great selection, no patterns, and higher prices than I'd find downtown. Luckily Len's Mill is also up that neck of the woods, a fabricstore I'd seen at craft shows a few times. The store is a real weird space. The front is discount department store, and you have to sneak past isles of underwear and discount detergent to find the fabric in the back. But once I got there I found a nice selection of fabrics at good prices.
And some of their fabrics are fancy!
Mostly quilting prints, but a few nice apparel fabrics as well. I picked up a lovely dotted swiss and a black eyelet cotton for some blouses.
I was really hoping to get some cotton twill in grey and red for two new circle skirts. Alas, the red twill eluded me. But I got a lovely grey twill for a skirt. I decided to go a little fancier and add pockets with a cute little pointed flap on this one. I also cut out more black twill bias strips to make the contrast band I added to the Night Vale skirt, since it gave it such a nice weight and swing.
And while I'm off to work on this some more, I leave you with the song I can't stop listening to this week, sung out of the British Museum.
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