Handmade by Carolyn

Thoughts on sewing, knitting, and looking my best

  • Home
  • about me
  • my patterns

Tag: fabric shopping

Fabric shopping in Tokyo

12/02/201625/04/2019 CarolynUncategorized31 Comments on Fabric shopping in Tokyo

Tokyo is absolutely brilliant for the fabric loving visitor… it even has its own fabric district!!!! how cool is that? very, that’s what.  Nippori is the most well-known place in Tokyo to shop for fabric, but this is my third visit to the city so…

Read More→

the spoils from Scandinavia…

26/06/201425/04/2019 CarolynUncategorized26 Comments on the spoils from Scandinavia…

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…

Read More→

Fabric shopping in Scandinavia

19/06/201425/04/2019 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on Fabric shopping in Scandinavia

When going away I like to buy at least one piece of fabric or some yarn from a place, so I can make for myself a wearable souvenir.  So how fortunate that fabric shopping in Scandinavia is fantastic!! Our first…

Read More→

The Shopping and the Spoils…

22/06/201225/04/2019 CarolynUncategorized20 Comments on The Shopping and the Spoils…

…the lowdown on the fabric and yarn shops I visited whilst in Italy and Paris. First stop, Rome; and before we had headed off on our trip I had read about Fratelli Bassetti Tessuti in a really excellent review which is also on the…

Read More→

Fabric shopping in Tokyo

30/01/201122/04/2019 CarolynUncategorized16 Comments on Fabric shopping in Tokyo

Now this was something I was really looking forward to… Fabric shopping in Tokyo with Yoshimi and Novita.  We were meeting for the first time in reality, although we had met and knew each other virtually before this time.  Isn’t the internet…

Read More→

Fabric and wool shopping, Melbourne

01/10/201025/04/2019 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on Fabric and wool shopping, Melbourne

Having a blast in Melbourne, thus the lateness of the post.  Fabric-wise, twas another extremely successful day.  So I thought it would be helpful to give for you today a list of highlights in my explorations here… The first shop…

Read More→

Copyright © All rights reserved.
Blog Kit by WP Charms
Switch to desktop version
↑
↓