Just a word of warning - if you aren't a fabric maven, or have even a slight interest in fabric, you might want to go away and come back another day...
So, here goes...
The gorgeous lilac silk jersey, next to an envelope so you can see the colour - I just realised it's exactly the colour of my kitchen cupboards!
A large remnant of shirting, 100% cotton, with gorgeous pique stripes and a tiny weeny darker stripe on either side, just to give the white stripes some oooomph...
The palest of pale lilac shirting, in a really fine pique. Very soft.
A kind of weird choice, really, neither vibrant nor traditional... but I liked the colours - it's a sort of rough cotton, I don't really know what the name of it is. Just enough for crafty things, I think. I don't think I'd be seen dead wearing it!
And then, shirting in a really pale pink herringbone, excuse the shadow in the bottom of the picture...
Also a crafty choice - it had such a '60's look I couldn't resist - I'm sure my mother had a dress made of this in about 1964...
And then, a lovely crisp cotton, a bit heavier than shirting, with a sort of Japanese-y feel to it... I have no idea what I'm going to do with this!
And then, just a tad more shirting, in a pale pink, with a nice white square (is that, strictly speaking, a check? I need to check my Fairchild's Dictionary of Fashion, I think.
And finally, the piece de resistance, or 'piatta forte', which Babelfish tells me is the correct interpretation of the French, the Houndstooth silk:
You can see from this that it's actually black and cream, not black and white - but it is still gorgeous!
Sadly, that's it. If I'd only had more time, a shipping crate, another ten credit cards and a more willing husband, then I could have bought more, so some of you are probably quite pleased I had none of those things.
Me, I'm already thinking about my next trip, and how I can survive a month in Europe with only 2 days worth of clothes to make extra room in my suitcase!!!
