Found - another (very) local fabric source! Cottye
Last week when I was in our local findings wholesale shop and began talking to a fellow seamstress, I heard her mention a certain fabric shop that was local. Well, not as local as that shop which is only about a half mile from our house, but local - as in about 12 min. away by car.
I decided to give them a visit. They have an extensive on line store, so I first visited there, checking out what they have for sale, and then decided to visit them. My husband and I went to Lidl the other day, and it is just beyond Lidl in a town called Karczew. So, we drove there, and noticed that they weren’t open yet.
Fine. We went home. I went back either the next day or the day after that - I don’t remember which day.
I went. I bought some fabrics. I came home.
First of all, I had decided to buy a few meters of what they called “premium” cottons (5 meteres in fact - cost just over $10/meter) which I’ve never seen elsewhere, and spend some more on some of the other fabrics, which were from Kejt, the producer that my husband and I went to see and buy from about a month ago now.
These are the premium cottons I bought. I’ll admit, I did buy the donuts just because I thought it’d be fun!
The brand on these expensive fabrics is “Indigo”. I’d never heard of this brand, so I will look it up.
The other fabrics I bought - I knew that Kejt didn’t have any more currently, such as bright red, or brown dots. Let me show you pictures from the trip.
When I drove up, I already knew where it was because we had found the exact location when I attempted to come in the early morning but it wasn’t open yet.
It’s a rather quiet looking building. You had to get close to see the name. The entrance was one of the entrances in this warehouse type building.
They are mostly an on line store. That was obvious as I was the only one shopping at the moment.
When I walked in, a young man came out of the office and asked me what I was looking for. I told him “Cotton.” He directed me to the back of the building.
Here it was.
Look to the left as I walked to the back.
Looked to the right on the way to the back.
Here are some close ups of the fabrics - most of these look like they came right from Kejt, the fabric store in Radom that we bought a lot from. I did appreciate that as I could see the fabrics up close and even touch them - something I really didn’t have time to do at the manufacturer’s place.
I could also just buy a meter - and get it out of my system and to see if I really did like the design and want to buy a whole bolt of it (50 meters).
I had wanted some brown polka dots to work with my brown fabrics from the Big Fabric Haul, but that was a color that the manufacturer doesn’t have in stock. I spotted some on this roll! Great!!! Yeah!
I spotted the dark brown polka dot fabric on the roll. I ended up getting 7 meters of it. I think I bought all they had.
The same with the bright red. I did buy red from that big buying trip a month ago now - but what I bought was a darker red so I picked up about 6 meters of a brighter Christmas red. I bought all that they had. I also bought the ends of four other pieces - the two solids and the brown polka dots and the light brown polka dots - I took “all they had”.
The guy who measured fabric for me - looked to be about 22 or so, gave me a small piece (not so small - I measured it - it was a meter) as a “Thank you”.
As it is an animal print - I will be able to use it somehow in with the charity quilts..
This is the angle looking back out towards the front. The guy is measuring the brown polka dots - taking it off the long roll. All the cotton fabrics were in the back of the building. Even here you can see the difference between the red I bought recently and the red I bought a few weeks ago (the red on the right is the darker red).
As to price - they didn’t really cut me a deal - it was about $3.50/yard so I didn’t try to get them down any further. I can buy it for less than that directly from the manufacturer - but have to buy big bolts of it. (13,50 PLN approximately in Polish zlotys)
Here’s what I came home with!
This place also has Eko skora or some sort of imitation leather and a different imitation leather. I’d like to buy a piece of it and try to make a vinyl type purse with it.
So…what did I think?
It seemed “empty” - that was my initial impression. Like they have a lot more room than they have fabric. I imagined my sis with all that space!!! :)
Then, in the back where the cottons were, it seemed very “thrown around” - not very neat. I guess I’m kind of spoiled by stores - even wholesale ones - in the US. But then I remembered that most of these ‘bolts’ aren’t really wound on a bolt - they are folded back and forth, back and forth. It means after you open it and start working it it, it is a mess.
But after I got over that initial impression, I was fine with it. The worker was friendly and they treated me well. I didn’t really get a better price than if I had purchased on line, however. I was thinking I might. Maybe that was where the free meter of fabric comes in, I don’t know. I will definitely go back. I don’t always need or even want 50 meters of everything. Sometimes just a few is all I really want. On the other hand, buying a few meters of it there will let me know if I really want more of it.
Have a great day wherever you are reading this! Thanks for coming along with me on my quilting/sewing journey!
Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store here!
Here’s one of the beauties we have!
