(Yeah, so my written French is even worse than my spoken. Please correct any mistakes you read in this post!)
We got very lucky last Saturday and had a beautiful warm sunny day for the 2nd Montreal Meetup in honour of CarmencitaB's visit. I was a very bad host and forgot to take my camera, and then only managed to snap a few blurry iPhone photos! Reminder to self: next time be prepared.
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| At El Chalateco: Rachael, Tammy, Caroline, Katherine, Renee, Rhonda (hiding behind Julie?), Julie, Carmen, Shannon and Shannon's littlest chick entertaining us all at the head of the table. |
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| Carmen brought some little gifts for us from France, and even got Jalie to send us some sewing swag. |
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| Renée and Rhonda |
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| Caroline and Katherine |
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| Julie and Carmen |
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| Swap! |
Montrealers are a notoriously aloof lot, and tend to specialize in flatly ignoring everyone around them, but I think that we got a few stares for our enthusiastic group!
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| Carmen and I (no, we did not get tatouage) |
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| At C&M on rue St. Hubert |
After a quick selfish visit to Ultratex @7186 rue St. Hubert for elastic needs (I needs clear elastic for the Lady Skater dress and 1" elastic for lazy waistbands), we wandered north past my former favourite Aladdin's cave of fabric, Debouk @7476B rue St. Hubert. It's still boarded up after 2+ years, but I hold out hope that it will eventually reopen. Goodman Carlyle (corner St. Hubert and de Castlenau) has a broad selection, but you really need to ask if you're looking for something specific, because fibres are a bit all over the place. Very friendly staff though, so don't hesitate to ask. We even used group courage to brave the very (very) high-end fabrics at Textiles Couture Elle @7359 St. Hubert. The owner remembered Rhonda from the Pattern Review Montreal weekend, and was kind enough to show us around the silk collections. Now we know the difference between dupioni, habotai, satin, charmeuse and sandwashed silk. Whew. We ended up at C&M @corner St Hubert and Faillon, where I bought my only fabric of the day (to be revealed in a FO soon!)
Thanks again for coming out everyone!
Psst! We're getting together again on September 8th at le
Musée du Costume et du Textile de Montréal: Caro is organizing this time around, so go check out the details here and let her know you'll be joining us.
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Textiles Couture Elle is on facebook!! (Maybe they'd enjoy your blogspot article, too)
ReplyDeleteNice, friendly article... looking forward to seeing you again SOON, Vicki ;D
Hopefully THINNER :O
Rhonda in Montreal (PR)
I don't remember anyone saying that we had to get thinner before the next get together?!! HAHAHA. Come as you are; that's what we look forward to.
Deletelast picture made me laugh! With Shanon baby's hanging out with us, so laid back! She was calmly taking it all in! See you soon, Caroline
ReplyDeleteI know. I wish my babies had been so placid; then I would have taken them everywhere too. See you on the 8th!
DeleteSounds like it was fun!
ReplyDeleteIt was! Unfortunately, I was just starting to come down with a virus that afternoon, and I just didn't have the energy to party all night long. Next time? LOL.
DeleteThank you so much for organizing this for us. There will be a next time.
ReplyDeleteNext time I'll organize something a bit later in the day so it can morph into debauchery.
DeleteLooks like fun! You are the meetup queen! Hope to make it up your direction soon-- I'll definitely be looking you up! ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm so busy with meetups that I don't have time to read and comment on other people's blogs - something you wouldn't know about, would you?!? ;)
DeleteOMG! I just look at the picture, I look like a fool!! Funny day, it was great ;O)
ReplyDeleteSorry Katherine! It was the only photo I had of you. You should join us for the next one; probably in the spring we'll go to Chabanel.
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