Fabric

Yesterday I went to London and visited what was, quite frankly the most amazing fabric shop I have ever seen in my life. It was Joel and son fabrics which I came across a while ago when Jane Brocket wrote about it on her Blog. Literally piled floor to ceiling with the most beautiful silks, satins, lace and velvet, I wish I'd thought to take a photo of the inside of the place but I didn't.

Having requested some samples from them a few weeks back and having been treated with really great customer service (unfortunately not always the case when you mention you're a student) as well as beautiful fabric, I decided to buy all my fabrics for my final collection there. They were friendly, helpful, had absolutely everything I needed in the perfect colours, and packaged my purchases in a gorgeous bag (i'm a sucker for good packaging!) so much so that I didn't mind spending what for me is an extortionate amount of money!

I bought silk satin, silk duchesse satin, silk tulle and silk chiffon. The quality is great and the fabrics are beautiful, it's hard to get perfect colour reproduction in photos (particularly on such a grey day) as the colous are so subtle; shades of ivory, blush, oyster and champagne. I can't wait to start work on my final designs, if I can ever bear to take a pair of scissors to such expensive fabric that is!