Lincraft..... Fabric..... Patchwork and no camera charger.

I am all fired up to make another quilt top!!! 

  I went to Lincraft,  a new outlet in Mackay for fabrics, craft,knitting etc.

  I got 5 metres each of two colours of a light cotton . It was supposed to be half price at au $2.45 which was a good price.  After I got home and checked the sales slip it was marked at $ 1.99......   Lovely surprise!!!     This is planned for pillow cases.

I loved  a display that had lots of colours of spotted fabrics. They would be ideal for making an easy patchwork cover for a teenager's bed.  I loved all the purples and my imagination went into overdrive on how to use it.
    I would have liked to buy lots more fabric but it was too heavy to lug around until I was ready to go to the checkout.
I shall return before the sale ends to have a really good look at other goodies.

I'm still without my camera charger so no photos and the phone memory was full. Have to download them and clear the memory....

We have a cloudy, rainy day here which is the ideal weather to drive in for me.  I could go shopping today????

Boredom and what to do with all my Fabric?

The dried ginger ready for grinding.

After doing some ritualistic burning outside on a bare patch of ground, adding dried Mugwort for the cleansing and lovely smell,  I went to my sewing room.       Well,  I sat and I looked around,  took out some fabric and admired it because that's what I do to  fill in time.   I did a little dreaming about what garments to make out of this and that. 

Then, as nearly always, I start the yawning.

This is a sign that I have no real interest in what I'm doing.   I get it folding clothes. I get it while looking in my wardrobe for what to wear,   in the sewing room and also talking to certain people on the phone.  So... I'm thinking that I may have to bring a sewing machine upstairs and work in the lounge area.   Something to break the non-productive cycle.    I will have to live to be a 100 if  I want to sew all this fabric I have!  


I used to live near Wanagaratta, Victoria where Bruck Fabric Mills are situated. We could buy fabric @ 40c a metre!  Later it got to 60c and then to $1.  This was good quality curtaining, sheeting, dress materials and drill siutable for men;s work wear.   I would travel to Wang at least once every three weeks to indulge, and indulge I did.  


Over the years I have supplied and made curtains, pillowslips, clothes etc etc and I still have a fair amount left.  I sewed 21 pillowslips for my mother one afternoon!    It has saved us the expense of buying new curtains over the years as we renovated homes and resold. 


Once we were at Lee Jeans at Wodonga, Victoria, looking through their remnant basket and I bought  denim for $2 a metre.

  I thought, wow, I should have got more of that.  The Man offered to go back and get it.  He came out with heaps as they just cut it off a whole new roll.  Not a remnant as the first lot  and still at $2 a metre. I did suggest for him to go back again but the worried  look on his face made me  stop pushing that idea!

The Man used to laugh at me every time I came home grinning with arm loads  of fabric wrapped in brown paper from Brucks .

I think I may have been a little addicted.