Heather in Pleather

The awesome people I work with got me a fabric land gift card for an unspecified birthday recently. It was burning a hole in my pocket.  

 

The second I had a moment alone, I wandered into Fabricland alone to stock up on some new stuff for my stash and new projects.  I had it in my head I wanted some pleather for a purse pattern I found here.  Lucky me, I found some kick ass pleather on sale and got enough for mistakes and a skirt.  Unfortunately in my fabric-crazed state, I did not notice that a piece of the pleather in the middle of the cut had a nice huge permanent purple marker swipe on it.  I am lucky to have enough still for the purse and the skirt.  Here is the fabric.  Nice right?! 

This is some killer pleather - no animals were harmed in the sewing of this skirt!

I have cut out both the skirt and the purse but have been waylaid by the purse becasue I cannot find the right handles to complete it.  I am heading to Toronto for a few days next week and will take a brief detour to the garment district to try to locate the right handles.  I have been able to find them on Ebay and will pick them up on line if I have too.  I am itchy to get the purse completed - like right now - so fingers crossed that I find those handles next week.

 

I was able to pick up a bunch of fabrics with my gift card (thanks guys!!) and here are some of the other fabrics I purchased, some grey wool for another purse, navy blue wool for a skirt and some pink fabric that may not be in the photo but will be in a future blog and will be a basic top for wearing under suit jackets at work.

I found working with the pleather to be much easier than I had imagined.  I am not sure that I will wear the skirt too often.  It is fun to make it and it brightened up a cold dark winter.

 

 

I will keep you posted on the future sewing projects.  I have recently located some new sewing blogs that have been around the web for a while.  I am, ahem, slightly over 40 and finding blogs that speak to this confusing fashion time is a huge relief!  Today I'm linking here.

 

Until then,

 

Live High,

Heather