Tessuti Fabrics

I like visiting this store when I’m in Chatswood. It is tucked upstairs and at the back of a small shopping mall next the Chatswood Chase. That just means you can park easily. And it’s not far from the station.
There is fabric on two floors of this small shop. The quality of their fabric range is top rate. If you sew alot, this is the place for lovely and reputable fabrics and notions.
Their staff are helpful and know their stuff. The staff love sewing as much as their customers:)

I was looking for some plain, cheap, no-​nonsense block out type fabric to put up in my bedroom so that the streetlight outside my window would allow me to be less nocturnal, more hermit. After a quick Google I came across Tessuti Fabrics. The website is awesome in so much as they have some beautiful original fabrics — stuff that could convince even those with the greatest sewing phobias to get inspired to learn.
Rather than ordering online I decided to got to the Chatswood store and check out the material in the fabric flesh. It’s a pokey little shop upstairs at the back of a raggedy mall. I guess because the online shop is so clean and fresh that I expected to enter a palace of imperial fabrics. Not the case. The fabrics are gorgeous but the actual store looks like any other material/​sewing shop. The young shop assistant gave it a bit of that ‘fashionable’ edge I’d been absentmindedly seeking. Hilarious given I was looking for cheap block out fabric. I found it too in the bargain bucket. $ 10/​metre which is pretty good. A lot of the beautiful fabrics I say were more like $ 50 and up.
I imagine this is a hub for young designers to find pretty fabrics without having to go far. I’m feeling the urge to create… and shop ;)