Craft-shopping-spree

I went two seperate shopping sprees into London. I was looking for fabrics and beads to make these fantastic baby booties and maybe some stichmarkers and some (zippered) pouches. Also I wanted to buy some small goodies for my International Scarf Exchange 4 pall. I'm knitting a scarf for her and would like to spoil her a little bit more (as far as my finances stretch) with small gifts.

First I went to John Lewis in Oxford Street where I spent about an hour and a half browsing yarn and fabrics. I bought one ball of Cashsoft Baby DK in Blue Boy to make the cute Jelly Beanie hat (from the Classic Bambino Book) for the newborn son of a coleague. I will post a picture of the hat at a later date.

I also bought some fabrics which I will use to make small items from. I got my grandmothers sister's sewing machine. It's an old one (my guess it's from the 70's), but it's an Anker. This is a very good Dutch brand. Still I've not sewn a lot this last decade. My last big project was ages ago. So I need to brush up.


John Lewis booty

Last Friday I could leave work at four (normally I work till six) because of the Bank Holiday. So I used these two hours to go to Covent Garden and Jubilee Market. I picked up some nice little gifts for my ISE pal. Which I will post later when I've finished the scarf and are ready to send the whole fun pack. Anyway after the Covent Garden shop I went to Kingly Court. I had read on Flibbertygibbet (try saying that quickly three times) that there was a nice little yarn shop. So off I went.


Kingly Court

There I found the All the Fun of the Fair shop. The lady working in the shop that day, Rose, was very nice. She greeted me and let me browse, but also answered all my questions. In short it was a very lovely shop with nice yarn and also very nice ribbon I bougth for my fabric projects. Top buy is probably the shell flower buttons.


All the Fun of the Fair

You can not see them very well in the picture, but the shop has very nice wooden (i'm guessing here) letters covered with nice fabrics. They would be fab in a childrens bedroom or something similar. After this little heavenly shop I poped into the bead shop opposite. This is called Buffy's Beads. Quite posh, but the girls where nice. In the end I picked up for stings of beads.


The Bead shop: Buffy's Beads

Last that day I went to Liberty just off Regent Street. They have lovely fabrics, but you pay for it. So in the end I was tempted only by this 'egg'-pattern designed by Amy Butler (check out her fab website, she's also got super cool free patterns) for Rowan Fabrics.


Part of the new stash

In short it was an uber good shop... mmmmm :D