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Silk and undies, and old skirt, Korea

 I found a photo of the silk I bought when I went to Seoul South Korea. It's so pretty. I can't remember how much it was but it was a good buy. Earlier that year, when I was at the fabric area in Paris, the silks although beautiful, were very expensive. 


The colour on my monitor is pretty accurate. I love it. There was huge markets with lots of crafty stuff and fabrics but it was overwhelming. The market we went to, Dongdaemun had lots of hand made jewellery too. I bought some capiz shells to make a mobile (I must find those). My friend bought some lovely big feathers.

** from here to the coffee is a repeat. For some reason I didn't remember already putting this up so apologies :)





My friend gave me a big tub of really beautiful quality fabrics. These above were remnants pieces but I decided to make her something. I used the Kwik Sew 2028 pattern and made two sets. There is also a few metres of the brown top in a rayon twill which is such fantastic quality, unfortunately I don't wear brown so I'll sell that. That was part of the box of fabrics from the Bubble 'o Bill fabric I used for togs for my son and his girlfriend. 



This McCall's pattern I made in the eighties I think. I made it out of linen that I got from that designer fabric sale that used to be on for years. They had amazing Italian linen remnants (I still have a lot for prices even then that were just a few dollars for a few metres). I noticed the skirt I made (bias cut view C) was exactly the same pattern and colours scheme. This skirt doesn't fit anymore but I just can't seem to give it away. I really love it.


And I'm going to leave you with a coffee I got in Busan, South Korea. They have great coffee in Korea and this one was so cute it was a shame to drink it... but I did! If you get the chance to go to Korea, I highly recommend it. It was such an exciting place to visit. Can't wait to go again!


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