After Hurricane Sandy...
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Everything about the fabric, trims and notions stores and shops of New York City's Garment District, plus maps for people who love to design, sew, and create.
Labels: hurricane sandy, speakeasy tour
Labels: hurricane sandy, speakeasy tour
MOOD Fabrics (yes, that's what I said...) Address: | |
225 West 37th Street, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10018 | |
Phone: (212) 730-5003 | |
Store Hours: | |
Monday - Friday: 9:00 am - 7:00pm
Saturday: 10:00 am - 4:00pm Sunday: Closed |
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Big, strong polka dots! |
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Love that blue! |
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Looks kinda like lace from a distance. |
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Love how vibrant those colors are! |
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So pretty, but kinda looks like a dish pattern... maybe... |
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Oddly enough, the very top design is extremely similar to my parents' 1970 wallpaper in the early 1970's. |
Labels: home decor, Mood Fabrics
Guide Fabrics is the store you didn't know you needed.
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A card showing samples of the various muslins and interfacings they offer. |
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Lots of colors, too! |
Labels: Guide Fabrics, muslin, silk tulle
So today, along with my tour guiding partner, Cindy, we walked the route for our next Garment District Tour, which will take place next Friday.
Labels: speakeasy tour
Although I had known about the exhibit for quite some time, I just managed to go visit the FIT museum recently, to experience the Ivy Style exhibit. I wasn't particularly jazzed to see this one, since I don't really get the aesthetic, the meaning, the significance... even after reading the blurbs on the walls of the exhibit, and supporting information.
Part of today's exploration, was a trip to a fabric store with a familiar name...
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What a beautiful double-breasted vest this would make. Just to DIE... |
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And this dangly-disk colorful celebration... so much fun! |
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Oooooh... the textures! |
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A reversible delight! |
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And there is just sooo much more... |
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And what colors! |
Labels: butterfly fabrics
Labels: Joyce Trimming
You know the phrase "Everything s/he touches turns to gold"?
Two years ago, I made a crazy dinosaur costume for a toddler, using fabrics I found at NY Elegant. |
And it had scaly feet you could attach with elastic cord over the child's shoe. |
Labels: garment district tour, Halloween sewing, holiday sewing, NY Elegant, NYC fabric shopping
It may seem that the blog has gone silent, but I assure you that this is a result of having too much, rather than too little to say over the past week. I will update you fully as soon as I come up for air
Many fashion companies, new designers, students and startups send out scrambling groups of interns in the garment district to find, source and buy a wide variety of fabrics, notions and other supplies. In my experience, lately, there is a fairly significant (and growing) customer service problem in the district.
Labels: NYC fabric shopping, speakeasy tour
Did you know you can take classes at Mood? As you know, since moving on to Mood Fabrics, the former owner of this blog is making sure everyone knows big things are a'happenin' on Mood's ever-improving website! When chatting with Meg one day, she let me know that the classes can also be found on their website, which I hadn't noticed before! I had previously only seen the signs in the store advertising classes... So, while looking at their class offerings online, I came across this one, which is one I'm sure many of you would find interesting. Click through for details on this class and more....
Labels: BandJ Fabrics, Metro Textiles, Mood, sewing classes
On the recent "Speakeasy" tour, one of the journeys I noticed many in our group shared, was the quest for better pants. Some are taking classes to learn better techniques, and some were looking for better fabrics. Some just needed some guidance to find the "right" fabric.
Labels: A.K Fabrics, Lace Star, Metro Textiles, NY Elegant, Rosen and Chadick Fabrics, speakeasy tour