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
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.
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.
Take a look at these details. Obviously I was helpless to resist, of course.
Wow….those shoes are a work of art!!
Gorgeous! The fish leather is so fascinating!
Shoes, shoes and again shoes… beautiful and fish leather too and birds on upholstery.. enjoy your time in creations.. o my Goth shoes left me mute…
All the best and thanks for sharing with us your jewerly …
Maja
Oh wow, absolutely gorgeous, can't wait to see what the skins become and those shoes!!!
How wonderful, the fabric is gorgeous and the fish leather! Amazing.
The shoes are seriously cool! I love the bird fabric and the fish leather.
I can't wait to see what you'll do with his wonderful fabrics !! KISS
So curious to see what the fish leather pieces will become…
How fun to see these pieces as just cuts of fabric and anticipate the amazing possibilities with you!
wow everything is great but the one that caught my eye is the upholstery fabric with the birds, very pretty, and I am quite interested to see what you make.
Oh the Spoils! Those are fantastic. Thank you for sharing! It's never occurred to me that there is such a thing as fish-leather. Can't wait to see what you do with the fabrics too. Burda had a great blouson pattern in one of last year's books…April's I think… that might work well with a little adaptation for the hoodie. WELL DONE! Following your trip has been almost as good as doing it myself…well. Close to almost 😉
But the leather? What is to become of the leather?
Fish leather! I am intrigued!
Oh what a wonderfully rewarding trip! I can't wait to see how the fish leather is to work with, very intriguing.
That yellow is terrific too.
I always say don't be scared of beautiful, expensive fabric. But, sometimes just the piece of fabric is souvenir enough to be cherished as a piece of fabric.
Nice shoes!
I´m in love with those shoes!!! And with all your fabrics too! I know you´ll make some amazing garments out of those, and I´ll be waiting here to see them!
The pullovers on the knitting book are the only reason I ever wanted to learn how to knit. Love them
Oh la la – very nice indeed. Love the shoes.
Thank you! So interesting and fun. Love the shoes!
Beautiful loot!
Love the fish leather. And the shoes are to. die. for. I just love a well-crafted pair of shoes!
A fabulous haul of fabric, but those shoes – amazing!
So fun to see your fabric haul! And those wonderful shoes are kind of unbelievable.
Gosh, I've never heard of fish leather! Is it a fine leather? What kind of uses is it put to? Looks lovely.
OMG that yellow leather made me weep tears of joy – you lucky gal you, what an AMAZING fabric haul!! And of course, shoes! So awesome, really – all of it!! 🙂
The Icelandic leather had me turning green with envy too!