Baileys

As my last review (The Wool Pack) reveals, I’m a crafty sew and sew. I don’t just knit, I also make clothes and bags and suchlike. When I’ve time. It’s the kind of thing that comes and goes in phases but I always love it when I’m doing it. As such I have big bags full of material and ribbon and trimmings and needles and cotton and buttons and bits and bobs. I still can’t resist buying more, and also always swing by when sorting out fancy dress for festivals, performances and parties. Netting, dyed feathers and sequins mainly. But also metres of fabric in pretty prints. DG Bailey is great for this. They can cut however much or little you need so it is a really reasonable option for dressing fancy and customizing old favourites.

Fabric can be quite expensive. I don’t know why but I always assumed that it would be cheaper to buy fabric and make up your own clothes but this seems not to be the case. I cannot, I hasten to add, make clothes. At all. I can do that thing where you use wool and hessian to make a little picture of a train (we all did that in primary school, yes?).
But my housemate can. She made my Halloween costume; I went as Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Anyway, she said that she liked to make clothes (and she is often making her own), so I thought I’d take a look around to see if there was any fabric I fancied.
Boy, did I have a lot to choose from. The range was quite phenomenal. I mean, I’ve been in fabric shops before and it’s always amazing how much they have. But this is just a tiny little stall!
It is, as expected, a little expensive to buy enough fabric to make a whole outfit. But I may get some on a return trip to make up some curtains.