Sydney Sewing Meetup

On the weekend twenty lovely Sydney sewists met up for a lunch, gossip, fabric swapping and a little bit of fabric shopping. I've been to A LOT of food blogging meet-ups but this was my first foray into meeting "real life sewing Bloggers/Tweeters/Instagramers" and it was a blast.

A small group of us met up early and scooted out to The Remnant Warehouse in Alexandria for a look around. Massive thanks to both Catherine and Maria who really helped me out with fabric hunting for my upcoming attempt at Tilly's new Coco pattern. As I'm basically learning to sew on my own it's been so wonderful to have the help of the online sewing community when I do get stuck...which is fairly often actually.

I walked away from The Remnant Warehouse with this "mystery fabric" that I think will be good for my first test of Coco.

Because I'd organised this meetup, and cannot organise anything that does not involve food, I'd booked a table for lunch at Parma Cuccina in Surry Hills. Pizza and salads all round. We were a pretty big group so special thanks to the restaurant for letting us take over half of their downstairs area...including sequestering a table for our fabric/pattern swap...

I walked away from the fabric swap with a nice piece of cotton that I think I'll make into my third attempt of the April Rhodes Party Peplum Dress (wish me luck). I also picked up some cotton drill which will become a skirt once I work up the guts to go down that road...a road of zippers, waistbands, interfacing, darts...and tears. 

After lunch we mozied on down to Tessuti and then The Fabric Store. I was very restrained and managed to look but not buy...that must be a first for me!

Thanks to everyone who came along...I hope we get to meet at another sewing meet up soon.