Here’s what I got for the grand sum of $28! The main fabric is a beautiful soft wool. The photo doesn’t show the colour very well - it’s a soft beige and pink with a mottled design. There’s enough for the whole coat, but I think I’ll stick with my plan of using my red fabric for the pockets and hood to make it a bit more interesting.

The other fabrics are for linings, and I got some partly-used reels of matching thread too.

The only thing they didn’t have was suitable interfacing, so I bought that new.

Minnie likes the lining fabric 😆

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I’m delighted that I managed to pick up almost all the supplies for my coat from Stitch Kitchen! It’s a social enterprise that aims to reduce textile waste. Everything in the store is donated - bits of fabric and haberdashery and wool and anything you might need for textile projects. They also run classes etc. Even better, they have a sale on and fabric, already sold cheaply, is half-price (ending tomorrow)!

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Oh that's fun! My partner is on a biz trip to Hamburg and she dropped into their Maritime Museum to see if anything related to our above thrift-shop find is there.

She saw some pieces from the ill-fated ship's porcelain collection. Neat!

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