We were lucky in Finland, since we had a local guide and she was able to take us directly to a fabric shop!  Actually, it wasn’t quite that simple.  We thought it would be nice to get some Marimekko fabric, since it is a well known Finnish designer and I really like a lot of the patterns.  However, when we arrived at the shop we found out that for a tiny little piece of this fabric we would be paying almost 20 Euros and we just couldn’t bring ourselves to do that.

So we set off again and found a different fabric shop and there we found this beauty.

Finland fabric

The colors seem especially appropriate to me since blue and white are the colors of the Finnish flag, but also it really strikes me as a place of water and ice.  Another fabric success!