Buying sewing decorations from the USA in Germany
If you've known SewSimple for a while, you probably know that sewing decorations are a recurring topic. You've already found many great ideas for this in the article Decorating handmade items - here's how. During our trip through the USA, we were surprised that you can sometimes find great sewing supplies and fabrics even in a regular supermarket (for example at Walmart). For instance, we found these pretty cotton prints:
Prints with birds and butterflies are among my absolute favorites. You can find a really great example of a successful print in soft colors here.*
However, we didn't find jersey in the USA as often, nor with as much variety as we have back home in Germany. But there were tons of Minky fabrics and flannel fabrics for babies and children. I've seen great Minky fabrics especially on Amazon. You can find them here*. Minky can be used very nicely for play mats, toys, and other baby items. It washes well, is flexible, and dries quickly. Flannel is a brushed cotton fabric. Due to this pretreatment, the fabric is warmer and softer on the skin than non-brushed woven fabric. It is particularly well-suited for pajamas, baby sleeping bags, swaddles, and the like. For this reason, it often comes in soft pastel tones. It's not very easy to see in the picture, but the flannel is sky blue and printed with black and silver anchors:
You can, of course, also get cute flannels* here from us.
But back to sewing decorations. We made some real discoveries there. Super cute mini buttons for doll clothes. Of course, you can also use them to embellish mini bows, little bags, and much, much more. Take a look:
Mini buttons* are what we found on Amazon.
There were also original beads that can be used to individualize bags and zipper pulls:
US flags* were found on Amazon - although, unlike in our example, not made of simple metal but only in the deluxe silver version.
The flamingo is truly a favorite piece. We used it immediately for our new bag! Photo to follow! :) Flamingos are currently a real hype here too. Next up are some super-sweet fairies that also absolutely wanted to travel back to Germany with us:
And the back:
Identical flower fairies* in button form are available from Rayher.
And here are my secret favorites:
Can you stand it? Soooo cute! The mini Kitchen-Aid! :) Unfortunately, we couldn't find anything similar anywhere.
Incredible, right? We saw owl charms made entirely of metal at Buttinette.
Did we give you any new ideas for sewing decorations? Then feel free to leave us a like on Facebook! Happy simple sewing, your Sabine
P.S.: Do you already know our post about total sewing happiness? ;)
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