Lovely suprises from the mailman

Look what I found in my mailbox after two days (and one night) at work?

I had ordered three patterns from Deer and Doe, the Airelle blouse, the Datura blouse, and the Chardon skirt. I am really excited to try out the lovely patterns from Deer and Doe. I already have some fabric cut out for the Datura blouse, it is the cotton fabric that I painted last week while making the napkins-gone-wrong.. Luckily the fabric came out better looking than the napkins!

Unfortunately the Belladone dress was out of stock, otherwise I would have added that one too! (I just noticed that they have been restocked, so treated myself to another present)

This week at work I had to cover a night shift, which included sleeping at the practice all by myself. This was my first night shift all by myself at the new practice, so I was a bit nervous.. Luckily there were no emergency patients and I could get some sleep :)

Last week I had also ordered the Cascade skirt pattern from the awesome new collection of Megan Nielsen. I ordered it from Backstitch, but I didn't know when it would arrive.
Can you imagine my excitement when I found all four of the super cool patterns had arrived at once?

Yay! It's the Cascade skirt

For the Cascade skirt you need 3m of fabric, so I went to the fabric market to try and find some cheap fabric with the right drape. At first I really liked the yellow and green fabric from the pic below, until they guy told me the price... 10 Euro's for a meter! Hmm too expensive for a wearable muslin.

10 euro's for a meter, quite expensive for a muslin..

 Then I found this light weight cotton, it was only 1 euro a meter, quite a difference! I think it will (hopefully) make a lovely wearable Cascade skirt muslin.

Some pics of the fabric market, to get an impression :)