Fishman’s Fabric Haul

I promised to post photos of my haul from Fishman's Fabrics after my Chicago Weekend, a month ago now.  I did have swatches of a group of fabrics for which I was trying to find coordinates.  For the most part I was successful.

First are two pieces of silk organza.  They are two separate shades of gray, a very nice quality of organza. 

They were purchased to go with another piece of organza, to work with a particular set of garments:

Unfortunately in the intervening time my plans have changed so the garment I described to my companions is now going to exist in a different fabrication.  Needless to say these organzas will be used.  I am fairly picky about organza, the cheap stuff really makes me itch and is not worth the agony incurred when using it in a garment.

Two colors of silk duoppioni, the perfect shades to coordinate with a particular fabric, and another piece of duoppioni which coordinates with my original fabric as well as with a stunning piece of linen I found at Fishman's.

Here you can see all the fabrics that I was planning to work with, the original fabrics which were already in my stash, and the new additions:

Well, actually, I don't have the organza in this photo, but you get the idea.  I will be telling you more about these fabrics over the next few days as I plan the garments I intend to make.  At least some of these are also possible for the June Capsule Contest over at Stitcher's Guild, about which I will also be writing.

There is one last piece of fabric I purchased at Fishman's, A stunning piece of linen, destined to be a dress:

I want to write more but now I have to head out to dinner and my hotel for the night, where I unfortunately do not have internet access (because my portable computer is still not working and not yet in the shop).

We had big thunderstorms here this afternoon and lost power briefly, phone/internet service for several hours and we also lost our water supply.  There was one big, really really close lightening strike.   I suppose that the electricity in the ground fried the pump that operates our well.

I won't know more 'til tomorrow.  DH thinks we are going to camp out here without running water for the weekend.  I am not convinced.