A Fabric Delivery by Royal Mail

Minerva had a sale at the end of 2023, so I took that opportunity to order some fabric. I bought a couple of yards of this luscious green Meet Milk Ottoman Rib fabric:

That looks to me like a machine-knit tuck stitch. That doesn’t clear up the mystery of the handknit version of Ottoman Rib, but it gave me an excuse to buy this fabric. I think it will end up as a cardigan of some sort.

I also bought two yards of the Minerva loop back French terry in the Celestial Motion colorway. (I also have their crushed velvet in this colorway.)

The fabric is a cotton/lycra blend but has such a wonderful hand that I thought at first it had some rayon in it. I’d like to make a Nathalie from this.

It’s a good thing I don’t live in the UK because I’d want to buy everything that Minerva sells.

While I was in town yesterday, I stopped in at Joann Fabrics. Interfacing was 50% off, so I replenished my supply of knit interfacing. I relieved the remnant rack of half a dozen pieces of quilting cotton at 75% off. And Simplicity patterns are $1.99 this weekend, so I bought two.

This is S9707, an oversized buttoned shirt:

And S9467, a buttoned shirt with some gathers and ruffles:

I am not a gathers and ruffles kind of girl, and I tend to avoid buttoned shirts because it’s hard to get them to fit properly, but both patterns would be suitable for that Kaffe cotton sateen. And I can make things as samples even if I don’t wear them. Sometimes it’s about the process, not the product.

I have all my pink baby quilt units sewn together, but now I need to cut them apart, mix them up, and sew them back together. I think I’ll be working on that project today. I ran errands yesterday and will try to avoid going to town again until next Tuesday, when I am scheduled to teach a serger mastery class. It’s snowing every day, the roads aren’t great, and I have seen way too many near-miss accidents from people driving like idiots. I’ll stay home and sew, thank you.