PRIMA Pattern, March 2014 - Couture Style Classic Jacket and Tube Skirt

The March 2014 PRIMA Magazine pattern is still currently available to order by phone until the end of today (apologies for the extreme lateness of this blog post - I completely forgot to do it!).

For March 2014, Prima Magazine are offering a collar-less smart jacket and pencil skirt.

A classic couture-style lined jacket and figure-skimming tube skirt. Sizes 10 - 20 (UK).

See my old post here on tips for ordering their patterns: PRIMA Magazine: How to Order Their Sewing Patterns.

Knitting & Stitching Show - Spring 2014 at Olympia

Well if you follow me on Twitter or Instagram you will have seen that last Saturday I had myself a lovely time at the Spring 2014 Knitting & Stitching Show.

"Have Trolley = WILL shop!!"

The Spring venue is at Olympia, a mere hour journey time from my East London abode - so how could I resist. I attended last year (not blogged - opps!) and thoroughly enjoyed myself, so I pre-booked my tickets online for this year's soiree too.

Unfortunately, I missed out on booking the Collar-making workshop. But, I might attend the Autumn 2014 show in Alexandra Place and attend it then instead.

I took my trusty trolley with me (as I had a sneaky suspicion that I'd come home laden down with wares)... it's never hardly-ever let me down. And, I did indeed manage to fill 'er up :)

I also managed to catch up with Roisin of Dolly Clackett and her lovely friend Lauren (Third Row Centre). Roisin even managed to find the perfect fabric for her wedding-dress (and it's beautiful!).

I entirely missed Stevie from Beebee's Vintage Dress though... :( !

But, I did see the very delightful Claire-Louise from The Thrifty Stitcher (I do hope that your back gets better soon CL!!). And, sewing is a small world - as we both know Melissa from FehrTrade, and Melissa is a tutor of the Breton Tee, Leggings and Posh Pants classes at The Thrifty Stitcher studio :)

So, what did I buy... here's the pics!!

And, I got to meet Charlotte & Victoria from By Hand London too (note to self - should've got them to autograph my pattern - doh!).

Cottage Patchwork 
2m of Cream & Polka Dot/Spots (£10/m)
½m of Blue & Polka Dot/Spots (£10/m)
FQ (Fat Quarter) of Cream & Anchors (£2.50)
FQ of Blue Floral & Cherries (£2.50)
3 of Wooden Letters S-E-W (£0.80 each)

Favourite Fabrics 
1.5m each of 3 colours: Cream, Blue, Pink - Sewing Machine/Tools/Notions Print (£6.99/m)

Fabrics Galore
1.5m of Grey/Wine-Red Striped Jersey (£4/m)
2m of Dark Blue Chambray (£7/m)
1.5m of Light Sea-Green Blue Polka Dots/Spots (£6/m)
1.5m of Multi-Striped Jersey (£4/m)

Manor House Magazines
6 copies of Australian Stitches Magazine (I think I wiped out their stocks of that title for Saturday LOL!).

They are the only place I've ever found in the UK that stocks this magazine (yay!). They also seem to have a bunch of other crafting titles too.

I bought these issues:
Vol 21: No 7, No 8 & No 9.
Vol 22: No 3, No 4 & No 5.

Coleshill Accessories
2 of Leather Small Scissor Cover/Case (£1.50 each)
Purple Thread Cutter (to hang around your neck) (£3.99 - I think, can't remember!)
Small Scissors (£3.95)

By Hand London
Georgia Dress - Pattern (£14.00)
It includes a very cute little fabric-label that you can include with your me-made dress!

Phew! That's my NOT so little lot of shopping :)

P.S. In other news.... I DID finish my little grey top in time (took me until 2.30am in the morning - due to some silly user errors... but more on that when I blog about it soon) :)

   

Please ignore the "weird" bumps at my waist in the photo on the right-hand side! That's from my chucky leather belt holding up my me-made (unblogged) skirt underneath LOL!! ;)

Work-In-Progress Tonight!

Feeling the need for a new T-Shirt, and this is fitting the bill nicely!

Simple, quick n easy! I should be able to do 99%of the seam construction on my overlocker (serger).

Let's hope that I get it finished before the bell tolls midnight ;-)