Hello there ....
just a fabric sort of day today ...
read on if fabric 'does it for you'!
As you know we trade for a living ... and I buy lots of fabric ...
I buy big lumps and little scraps ... vintage fabrics ... modern Ikea fabrics .. pretty and jazzy and bright and funky .. anything really ... that might light up someones eyes ... and brings a smile to their face ...
that ' Oh that's just the right colour/design ... has the right feel' look.
I have bags of the stuff stacked around my work space ...
some of it needs washing and ironing to freshen it up ..
most needs sorting and trimming up.
Nice and neat and ready to use ....
I have lots of ladies who quilt and craft and come weekly just to have a browse through the fabrics ...
maybe they just need a fabric fix ..
a touch and a feel of the cotton ... a quest for ideas and inspiration ... well .. you know how it is.
Its a bit like a little sewing group ... one set of friends helping another with quilting problems .. or where to find that lady who knows where that particular thing/pattern etc is ... you know how it is.
So its all very nice and jolly .. I like selling the fabric.
Hubby P was out today and came home with this ... he thought he would take a risk and get it ... maybe I could do something with it ...
He said he was thinking 'around the box ? up inside the box?'
...I think he was trying to say 'thinking outside the box'.
Someone said to us recently that our 'goods' are a little different .. we do things differently .. its as if we 'think outside the box'.
So its Hubby P's new mantra ...when he can get it right.
Whilst I had the fabric out (strewn through out the house) .. I rootled about for some blue-ish bits ..
why is it you never .... ever ... have just what you have in your minds eye....
three suitcases I emptied in search of blue fabric!
I made do with these bits ... not really what I wanted but needs must.
I took the Home Sweet Home off the tatty bit of card it was stuck to ...
and put together a bit of a cushion.
I think its all a bit 'busy' really...
but I find these frilly ..
a bit over the top 'inside/out the box?' ones ...
do tend to sell as feature cushions rather than the more practical ones.
So we shall see ... its something a bit fresh to put out on the stall.
Sorry its been all a bit work related ..
but that's been my day today.
So what have you been up to ...tell me .. do you find fabric expensive ... my ladies tell me horror stories of fabric costing £'s per yard.
It use to be the cheapest thing to get a yard or two from the market ... but who has a market these days?
xx
