I totally should have posted this before, sorry!... some fellow fabric enthusiasts expressed interest in seeing my Scandinavian purchases; the spoils sought and acquired, packed and repacked, schlepped through cities, one cobble-stoned street after another; and once safely home to be borne triumphantly aloft with pomp and circumstance and deposited with due ceremony unto the bottomless black pit that is The Fabric Stash. Haha, only joking, hopefully I will get around to making some things up without too much delay! I have already muslined up a highly possible "maybe" for the caramel leather.
Anyhoo, without further ado here are the goods:
leather from Copenhagen...
two pieces of the caramel and one small piece of the yellow
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from Stockholm;
an enormously expensive upholstery fabric which may prove too scary to actually cut into... eeeek! and below; a linen mix that is a modern Swedish design. I fell in love with this straight away and bought the rest of the roll, which wasn't very much! I'm really hoping I can get out of it the summer frock that I have firmly in mind.
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from Norway;
it might not look traditionally Norwegian but somehow this fresh navy and white gingham print does seem both nautical and Norwegian to me. I'm thinking of a little summer-weight, boxy, zip-up hoodie of some kind.
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from Iceland:
fish leather, from left green wolffish (catfish), black cod, salmon.. well, salmon! and aqua blue perch leather.
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Also in Iceland; on our last day I just couldn't resist a visit to the brick and mortar store whose online site is one of my favourite to visit and merely drool over the eye candy within, KronKron. Long ago I succumbed to an online purchase from these cooler than cool Icelandic shoe designers. Well, I would have hated myself forever if I had left Iceland without popping into the real deal.
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Take a look at these details. Obviously I was helpless to resist, of course.
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Anyhoo, without further ado here are the goods:
leather from Copenhagen...
two pieces of the caramel and one small piece of the yellow
from Stockholm;
an enormously expensive upholstery fabric which may prove too scary to actually cut into... eeeek! and below; a linen mix that is a modern Swedish design. I fell in love with this straight away and bought the rest of the roll, which wasn't very much! I'm really hoping I can get out of it the summer frock that I have firmly in mind.
from Norway;
it might not look traditionally Norwegian but somehow this fresh navy and white gingham print does seem both nautical and Norwegian to me. I'm thinking of a little summer-weight, boxy, zip-up hoodie of some kind.
from Iceland:
fish leather, from left green wolffish (catfish), black cod, salmon.. well, salmon! and aqua blue perch leather.
and a knitting book;
