Stitch Festival shopping

 

I am slowly recovering from a wonderful day at Stitch Festival with my daughter, Lizzie. We took almost no photos, but have appeared in a few people's videos. Look out for the cow jacket! 

We both made good time to Islington, arriving at about 9.30am and the show opened at 10am for non VIPs. Whilst in the queue, I gave Lizzie a lovely Tropic bag in emerald green and Lizzie gave me my order from Talking Dog Stitchery. I had forgotten all about placing the order! I also purchased Summr Quaker by Primrose Cottage at the show.

As planned, we followed the Disney method and headed straight to the mezzanine level which was already getting busy. My first purchase was the Moomin bag, which brings a smile to my face. It is filled with a cross stitch project as I have two days of hospital visits in London this week, so there will be a lot of moving around the hospital and equal amounts of sitting waiting. Lizzie is joining me again for a day's shopping and a day of tests. Fortunately, I have been through most of these before so have an idea of where to go.

I also bought these fabrics from Colette Moscrop and they are going to be used for a class with Sarah Hibbert that I'm taking at Pour l'Amour du Fil in Nantes in April. I need to see if I have any other fabrics I can add to this purchase for the class.

We also shopped at Studio 7T7 on the mezzanine floor where I bought purple and pink bag hardware and a ruler for marking rivets. I also bought two sizes of hoop butts before we headed down to the ground floor. We had spotted the lovely pink and blue fabric at Bornella Fabrics but returned after lunch to both make a purchase from this stand.

We had a good look around the ground floor before heading to Ottolenghis for lunch. The ladies sitting net to us had also been to the festival. After lunch we returned to the venue to finalise purchases at Bornella Fabrics, Rainbow Fabrics and of course Rosenbergs. Jeff is always pleased to see Lizzie wearing at outfit made in their fabric. 

By 3pm we had finished our browsing, retrieved my hand luggage from the cloakroom and headed off for a coffee. We were shattered! Lizzie walked back to King's Cross whilst I took the tube back to London Bridge and caught the Thameslink back to London Gatwick airport. I managed to change my flight to an hour earlier and headed straight through security and to the gate. No time to buy food today.

We both thoroughly enjoyed our day and would go again. However, on Wednesday we hope to head to New Craft House as it's a direct bus taking 40 minutes from Southwark.