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A different fabric souvenir

 Hello 😀 It's been a long time. There are many reasons.  I've had two blog posts ready; one from a trip with a friend last year to Paris and Amsterdam and then a cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest, and the other from my trip in late May/June this year with my son to Athens, and then I went onto Cyprus (to see my maternal family) and then Paris for a lone few days and then to Lisbon to see some friends who were there staying with their family. I've had some lovely things happen in the last two years but some really hard things too.

Anyway, I had to go back to Athens to fly home alone and did my fabric shopping then! (as Alex is very impatient with fabric shopping 😊... not sure why. There was lots. I bought a few pieces but the one I'm going to show you today is a more unusual fabric souvenir. 


It's a table cloth! I found it at one of the fabric shops in the fabric area; I'll do another post about the area soon. It's quite heavy cotton. I'd say canvas like. This was the last section of a buy off the roll panels. It's square; although I haven't measured it but I would say it's about 1.6m x 1.6 or so. There was another option which had lots more left but was a much busier print. I liked the simplicity of this one.



The selvages were cut with pinking shears and the other two ends were the straight panel cuts. I wanted a bit of white showing after the last stripe and started sewing straight lines at a distance from the stripe and then did a double fold and sewed it down. It wasn't cut evenly so the hem goes a bit narrower in some spots but the thread I used (from Mum's stash) is a perfect match so it's hard to see. I just finished it now and put it on the table.


This has made me enormously happy. Also that it's been done within 8 weeks of getting it home. I love it on my huge deck table. Have you had any unusual fabric souvenirs? 

I'll be back soon. I've made some things, got some unfinished still things, I've repaired some things and sold lots of my machines too. Don't worry, I still have too many. See you soon.
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Patricia said…
Hello Sophie, how lovely to see your blog post. Your tablecloth is absolutely gorgeous, and a perfect souvenir from Greece. How pretty it looks on the deck table. It looks like you have done quite a bit of travelling, and good for you. You had a difficult time the previous year. So many lovely places in Europe; Paris, Amsterdam, Portugal, Greece - what a list! Happy sewing and travels to you.
13 September, 2023 20:16
Debbie Cook said…
Welcome back! Lovely souvenir from Greece. Looking at it should rekindle memories of your trip. So sorry to hear of the hard times. Hopefully, that is all in the past now and only happy times are ahead.
13 September, 2023 22:53
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