present delivery for meeeeeee

sophie, a student from my philly days, who is now taking a gap year in china to learn chinese, came up to the city today to go bootshopping (yes, bootshopping is such an ambitious endeavor that i have coined it a single term...  she wanted my stellar shopping advice hahahahahhaah) and brought me this really cute mousey pincushion (it also came with purple thread!) from the mansion in "downton abbey" in london:

and this really pretty green ikat satin from xinjiang province in western china, home of the uyghur people!

it's soooo vibrant!  i want to use it for these cowl neck shirt patterns that jimmy scored for me at joann fabrics... yes, i have my bro shopping for me at joann fabrics (and he then recommissions the project to his gf hahahha)