permission to hoard

I've been down to Leeds having a lovely visit to see friends and family, we stayed in the best 'hotel' ha ha courtesy of M&M who were fab hosts and then once home I find myself having to lay sickly in my bed for a few days hence no postings.. but I have a new favourite shop, Fab Works in Dewsbury... full of beautiful fabric, everything you could ever think of including the most wonderful woven tweedy colourful things from Avoca - the mill we visited in Ireland last year.

I was quite giddy with excitement to say the least.... thinking I would purchase some nice Avoca cloth I actually ended up with the MOST fabulous redfur fabric to make a coat with!!! I did buy a little bit of nice thick woven pink and blue hounds tooth to make a skirt with but soooooo excited by potential red coat!!!

Also I got my last module mark back which was a good mark but more importantly my tutor acknowledged my difficulty in obtaining the 'right' fabric so she suggested to try and avoid this issue in the future I should hoard (her word) a bit more fabric whenever I was out and about visiting fabric shops... so now I have to buy fabric - teacher says so.....

I've also been working on my Liberty inspired scarves, which has been a very mixed experience. More detail in next blog as I have drop box deadline to meet so have to crack on having lost time to being sicky.....

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Scotland part 2

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Funchal

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ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

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