Hiya folks, Guess what? I entered a competition in July for a line of Woodrow Studio fabric - Barcelona. I won the first prize, which is £150 worth of new fabric! How good is that? At about £10 a meter, it's 15 meters of lovely fabric and it will be here in the next 3 or 4 weeks. I can't wait to get my hands on it... Sasha (QI) will want to make "tents" out of it and a good time will be had by all! I'm celebrating by making a pound cake and a chocolate marble pound cake with some eggs I got on sale. They're nearly done and it smells like heaven at mine. I'd invite you all over for a piece, but... you're too far away!
Distance never stopped me when fabric and cake were involved! I'll be right over to help you celebrate! With that much fabric, I'm sure you won't notice if a wee bit goes missing...
Jo, Congratu;ations on your big win. This is lovely. I just wanted you to know that I set up a great fabric organization system and have plenty of extra room to help store your new fabrics.
Kris ( in northern Virginia, outside of Washington DC,- , and you can come visit and deliver it yourself )
Not to far away if we take a plane! But, Ill wait so I can come fondle the fabric. If I bring eggs would you make another celebration cake? Congrats on a fun win! Diana
RCTQ- Houston 2004..... A good friend will come and bail you out of jail.... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn... that was fun!"
As they would say round here, "Ken!" I never win those things either. But just think, for the price of a second class stamp, I'll be literally rolling in it in a few weeks. It still doesn't seem real. Sasha helps with each step of fabric acquisition:
1) Actual shopping - usually cat hair on me at this point. Sasha is Siamese, so I suppose I could match the fabric to the brown or the cream hairs on my trousers
2) Fondling - Sasha enjoys making tents or "digging" under the fabric. She thinks she's a dog or a badger or something. Then she hides under said fabric or makes tunnels
3) Washing - she likes to sit and watch the clothes go round in the machine.
4) Preparing for ironing, when the fabric is hung over chairs and radiators in order not to crease it too much - again, for the cat with the active imagination, it is a world of tents and camping excursions.
5) Ironing - I iron the fabric at one end of the ironing board while Sasha sits on the other end. Every ten minutes or so we switch and she gets the warm end. Very comfy all round. (I brush her first so she doesn't shed like a Yeti on the ironing board).
6) Storing in stash - Sasha climbs into the space which is left when I am putting the new fabric into stacks. This is very exciting because she hasn't been there in a few weeks, and you apparently have to re-smell the entire area.
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is very good at guarding the stash, so beware!
7) Recycling the packaging the fabric came in - Sasha enjoys camping out in the large paper bags from Croft Mill, and I generally let her play in them for about 3 days before folding them away for reuse. Also worthy of inspection are boxes (particularly if they are too small for Sasha to fit in - but try telling her that) and the occasional curling ribbon that a package arrives neatly tied up with. This last is so good and so lovely to eat that I have to cut short the pleasure and hide it in a bin. :(
Anyway, just wanted to let you know that Sasha and I will be having a blast when it arrives. She'll be very busy helping me. :)
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