Fabric

Fabric has played a large part in my life over the past week. Elizabeth and I went on a shopping spree, looking for fabrics and art materials. What a lovely time we had, apart from the rain. We started at ZiguZagu's new location in Malvern. They have the most divine fabrics from Japan, new and old. It was very difficult to drag ourselves away from the shop.

Some old

and some new fabrics and threads

From there we headed to Brunswick Street, an artist's haven. We did buy art materials, not just fabric. Neil Wallace and Melbourne Etching Supplies relieved us of some more cash, papers, sketch books etc.

We then discovered another fabulous shop 'Precious Pearl'  for fleece, wool and fabric. I bought some lovely sari silk fabric remnants and gorgeous fleece.

beautiful silk fabrics

silk fabrics and fleece

As if all this shopping wasn't enough I then went to Sassafras in the hills, near where I live, the next day and bought these beautiful tea tins. Mine won't ever see tea though, they're going to be the centres of some more of my yo-yos.

tea tins

I've also been putting together button and fabric kits for the Journal workshop I'm teaching here

I've been dyeing doilies

lace

and buttons and beads. I'm amazed how bright the buttons turned out, they were all white to start with.

and these are fabric pages for my latest journal, this one's an order

Thanks for visiting and for all your lovely comments in my previous post, now off to do more pages.