A skirt and a sale

Here is the skirt I drafted and sewed back in August. It has been worn quite a lot -- both dressed up with a blouse and pearls as well as dressed down as you see here with a black tee and slippers.

Suck in tummy - check! Angle the body to look slimmer - check! lol :-)

Back view.

I need to make more of these skirts -- they're quick to sew up and best of all, FIT! I think I'll practice drafting and sewing one of these for my 12-year-old niece ... or skinny sister who is built like a 12-year-old (no, no, there is nooooo jealousy in my tone here ... LOL!)

OK, now for the sale news -- the Spotlight sale catalogue arrived today and there are some tempting goodies which go on sale from Wednesday 6th October to Sunday 24th October:

• Butterick patterns are buy 1, get 1 free ... and VIPs get an additional 10% off
• Knits are marked down ... SGD$8.99 - $13.25 a metre (from $12.99 - 18.95 a metre)
• All printed cottons (poplin, sateen & voiles included) from $6.96 - $12.56 a metre
• Adjustable dressforms @ $439.96 (usual $549.95)
• 100% cotton stripes and dots - $6.95 a metre
  

There are Christmas prints and panels too. Guess which mall I'll be valiantly trying to avoid for the next few weeks? :-)

Headsup - Sale @ Spotlight; Burda & New Look patterns cheap!

From this Thursday, 22nd July to Sunday, 1st August Spotlight is holding a red ticket sale. Here are the highlights for those who sew:

• Burda and New Look patterns are just SGD$5.99 each!!! VIP Members (if you're not one, just sign up for FREE) get an additional 10% off and so pay SGD$5.39 each.
  
  You'll need to go through the pattern book for the Burda patterns (and then line up and get the Spotlight folks to retrieve them for you ... pain in the behind, if you ask me), but the New Look ones are displayed out in the open at the section near the quilting cottons.
  
  
• Selected fabric from SGD$6 per metre. The Spotlight folks said that they're slowly clearing out the warehouse, so expect more of these specials in future sales as well.
  
  
• 30% off lace trim by the metre, machine embroidery theads and stabilisers, sewing boxes and trolley bags and the entire range of buttons.
  

I'm avoiding the place! LOL! I have zero self control and certainly don't need to add to the stash. But I'm happy to enable ... hahahahaha!

Address - Level 5, Plaza Singapura, 68 Orchard Road
Phone - +65 6733 9808
Opening hours - 10am to 10pm daily
Website- www.spotlight.com.sg

Vogue pattern sale @ Spotlight & latest LMB

Vogue patterns are going on sale at Spotlight! From the 7th to the 13th of July, all Vogue patterns are SGD$15 (SGD$13.50 for Spotlight members).

This is a good price, considering that once you factor in shipping from Club BMV even when they have a US$3.99 sale, it costs about the same. I so wish we had those 99-cent sales like they do in the US though!!

Also, the July edition of La Mia Boutique (LMB) is out! You can get LMB from Kinokuniya at Ngee Ann City (the Bugis outlet doesn't carry it). June was late and it's out now too. If you haven't seen it yet, LMB is a little like Burda Style magazine, but in Italian. They have pattern sheets where you trace off the designs and there are instructions too ... in Italian.

The fashions are edgier than Burda and some of them are downright bizarre. LOL! But I like this mag and have a subscription with Allscript (http://www.allscript.com/), the Singapore distributors.

Work got in the way

It has been a CRAZY time at work, to put it mildly, and I'm tired of slogging through the weekends. Plus, we're all down with the cold bug at home, so there has been lots of sniffing and middle-of-the-night interruptions.

BUT (and this is a "but" of the nice variety), I'm taking some time off tomorrow to meet a new friend (and fellow fabricaholic) and we're going to go gallivant around the fabric shops in Arab Street and hopefully Chinatown too!!

This new friend is relocating to Singapore soon and we were "introduced" by Jeremy of Hot Patterns. He's so sweet -- he put us in touch with each other when he heard that H was moving to Singapore.

So far, H and I have communicated by e-mail only, so it will be terrific to meet her in person tomorrow. Only thing is, I really have to control myself and NOT BUY ANYTHING. Hahahhaha!

Anyway, here is some fabric news:

1. New Liberty prints at NicoleXavier - I just called Nicole and she said that most of her new shipment is IN! There is a last batch coming in tomorrow, but most of her new Liberty stock is IN IN IN. She has some classics as well as some of the latest from the upcoming season.

2. New fabric at Malin Textiles - I haven't written about Malin yet, but it's one of my favourite stores for cotton, especially Japanese cotton. It's just two shops to the right of NicoleXavier. They have new stuff in, including some Kokka prints!

3. Sale at Spotlight - It's on till 4th July. All patterns are 50% off and it's also 20% off all elastic, buttons, thread and interfacing.