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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
I went fabric shopping yesterday... Now you may think 'What has this to
do with losing weight?' and 'Why is this so special for a professional dress and costume maker?' Bear with me... This is what my DH calls a Scottish Story (long, involved, full of digression, but we get there eventually!). A couple of weeks back, at the Rochester Sweeps festival (the one where we had a houseful, and took a bus to see the Morris Dancing!), I met an acquaintance in the street: a bloke I've known slightly for many years. He's getting married again, and his wife to be is a lovely lady, but severely blonde! She said she wanted a wedding dress and LOTS of little bridesmaid dresses, but not your usual bevy of pastel flower girls. Notice that word, 'lots'... We'll get back to it! I gave her a card, and she rang me during the week. We had a meeting last Saturday, and she chose some patterns, and we looked at fabric samples, and she said more bridesmaids... OK, no problem. But the wedding is mid August! Hehehehehe! (Gibber... ) We decided that the best thing to do about fabric was to go up to Wembley, to the Ealing Road, where there is a fantastic fabric shop, like Aladdin's cave! We thought lunch at IKEA would be good, to set us up nicely for the shopping, so this was duly arranged. I went out and got the patterns, so we had an idea or two about yardage, and yesterday off we went... To get to Wembley from Sittingbourne is easy, but takes a while, and involves some of England's most notorious roads: M2 (UK's main artery from Dover & Europe to London and the north); M25 (Terry Pratchet called it the Sigil of Darkness, and he was right! Think 80 mph traffic jam!); M1 (London to the NW via Birmingham and the industrial midlands! England's busiest road); North Circular (ARGH!); Hanger Lane Gyratory System (4 lane square roundabout, with 6 sets of triffid lights: you can go round 3 times before you reach escape velocity!). Oddly, for a hot Saturday in the mid wedding season, there were NO hold-ups, no jams, and even the Dartford Crossing was flowing freely! It took us about an hour and a half each way. Lunch was lovely: I had Morrocan Chicken with couscous, which worked out at about 6.5 points. Very good point and monetary value! Then we hit the fabric shop. Joshi's is fantastic! Doesn't look much on the outside, but INSIDE is like nothing else on Earth! There are thousands of rolls of fabric stacked up the walls, saris hanging from the ceiling, trims in boxes under the counter... And the back shop is worse! We spent quite a while pulling rolls out, grabbing this and that, piling things up, counting colours, making our minds up between satin and shot taffeta... We ended up buying: One 50m roll of 72" wide white bridal satin One 50m roll of 58" wide poly taffeta lining Twenty 2m pieces of nice shot poly taffeta in 20 different colours 5m of 70" wide white tulle veiling Lots of diamante crystals, iron on... 3m red cotton for a tunic 7.5m braid for the tunic project... I also bought some fabric for myself and a couple of customer projects, and paid an outstanding bill for other bridesmaid fabrics and a roll of lining... All my slimming and wardrobe clearance means I need NEW CLOTHES! YIPPEEEEE! The girls and the uncles in the shop were having a real giggle with us about all this fabric, and having a bit of a time keeping the two piles separate! 155 metres of fabric later, we were justabout done! One of the uncles loaded the fabric in the car for us, and as we were chatting, I had a wonderful NSV. Now, keep in mind that the girls and the uncles know me well. I shop there fairly often, I do quite a lot of business with them over the phone, and via my web site Fabric List, put a lot of business their way. They KNOW what I look and sound like. One of the girls said: THAT'S not Kate! Kate's MUCH bigger than THAT! Then she heard me speak: Oh! It IS Kate! Wow! You ARE looking good! Woo Hoo! Now I like Joshi's shop even better! So there you are - the results of a high fibre diet! And the lots of bridesmaids? There will be 20 of them. All in different coloured tops and white skirts! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
Wow, all the sewing will definetly keep you out of the kitchen. Nice NSV.
Kristine "Kate Dicey" wrote in message ... I went fabric shopping yesterday... Now you may think 'What has this to do with losing weight?' and 'Why is this so special for a professional dress and costume maker?' Bear with me... This is what my DH calls a Scottish Story (long, involved, full of digression, but we get there eventually!). A couple of weeks back, at the Rochester Sweeps festival (the one where we had a houseful, and took a bus to see the Morris Dancing!), I met an acquaintance in the street: a bloke I've known slightly for many years. He's getting married again, and his wife to be is a lovely lady, but severely blonde! She said she wanted a wedding dress and LOTS of little bridesmaid dresses, but not your usual bevy of pastel flower girls. Notice that word, 'lots'... We'll get back to it! I gave her a card, and she rang me during the week. We had a meeting last Saturday, and she chose some patterns, and we looked at fabric samples, and she said more bridesmaids... OK, no problem. But the wedding is mid August! Hehehehehe! (Gibber... ) We decided that the best thing to do about fabric was to go up to Wembley, to the Ealing Road, where there is a fantastic fabric shop, like Aladdin's cave! We thought lunch at IKEA would be good, to set us up nicely for the shopping, so this was duly arranged. I went out and got the patterns, so we had an idea or two about yardage, and yesterday off we went... To get to Wembley from Sittingbourne is easy, but takes a while, and involves some of England's most notorious roads: M2 (UK's main artery from Dover & Europe to London and the north); M25 (Terry Pratchet called it the Sigil of Darkness, and he was right! Think 80 mph traffic jam!); M1 (London to the NW via Birmingham and the industrial midlands! England's busiest road); North Circular (ARGH!); Hanger Lane Gyratory System (4 lane square roundabout, with 6 sets of triffid lights: you can go round 3 times before you reach escape velocity!). Oddly, for a hot Saturday in the mid wedding season, there were NO hold-ups, no jams, and even the Dartford Crossing was flowing freely! It took us about an hour and a half each way. Lunch was lovely: I had Morrocan Chicken with couscous, which worked out at about 6.5 points. Very good point and monetary value! Then we hit the fabric shop. Joshi's is fantastic! Doesn't look much on the outside, but INSIDE is like nothing else on Earth! There are thousands of rolls of fabric stacked up the walls, saris hanging from the ceiling, trims in boxes under the counter... And the back shop is worse! We spent quite a while pulling rolls out, grabbing this and that, piling things up, counting colours, making our minds up between satin and shot taffeta... We ended up buying: One 50m roll of 72" wide white bridal satin One 50m roll of 58" wide poly taffeta lining Twenty 2m pieces of nice shot poly taffeta in 20 different colours 5m of 70" wide white tulle veiling Lots of diamante crystals, iron on... 3m red cotton for a tunic 7.5m braid for the tunic project... I also bought some fabric for myself and a couple of customer projects, and paid an outstanding bill for other bridesmaid fabrics and a roll of lining... All my slimming and wardrobe clearance means I need NEW CLOTHES! YIPPEEEEE! The girls and the uncles in the shop were having a real giggle with us about all this fabric, and having a bit of a time keeping the two piles separate! 155 metres of fabric later, we were justabout done! One of the uncles loaded the fabric in the car for us, and as we were chatting, I had a wonderful NSV. Now, keep in mind that the girls and the uncles know me well. I shop there fairly often, I do quite a lot of business with them over the phone, and via my web site Fabric List, put a lot of business their way. They KNOW what I look and sound like. One of the girls said: THAT'S not Kate! Kate's MUCH bigger than THAT! Then she heard me speak: Oh! It IS Kate! Wow! You ARE looking good! Woo Hoo! Now I like Joshi's shop even better! So there you are - the results of a high fibre diet! And the lots of bridesmaids? There will be 20 of them. All in different coloured tops and white skirts! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
Sounds like you had a great day, topped with a wonderful NSV! I 'd like to
see those bridesmaids' outfits, make sure to post them on your site when they 're ready! -- Nathalie from Belgium 134.1/95/minigoal 94.1/ Goal 68 Kg 295.6/209.5/minigoal 207.5/Goal 150 pounds WNM: 216.3/209.5/203 lbs 98.1/95/92 kg "Kate Dicey" wrote in message ... I went fabric shopping yesterday... Now you may think 'What has this to do with losing weight?' and 'Why is this so special for a professional dress and costume maker?' Bear with me... This is what my DH calls a Scottish Story (long, involved, full of digression, but we get there eventually!). A couple of weeks back, at the Rochester Sweeps festival (the one where we had a houseful, and took a bus to see the Morris Dancing!), I met an acquaintance in the street: a bloke I've known slightly for many years. He's getting married again, and his wife to be is a lovely lady, but severely blonde! She said she wanted a wedding dress and LOTS of little bridesmaid dresses, but not your usual bevy of pastel flower girls. Notice that word, 'lots'... We'll get back to it! I gave her a card, and she rang me during the week. We had a meeting last Saturday, and she chose some patterns, and we looked at fabric samples, and she said more bridesmaids... OK, no problem. But the wedding is mid August! Hehehehehe! (Gibber... ) We decided that the best thing to do about fabric was to go up to Wembley, to the Ealing Road, where there is a fantastic fabric shop, like Aladdin's cave! We thought lunch at IKEA would be good, to set us up nicely for the shopping, so this was duly arranged. I went out and got the patterns, so we had an idea or two about yardage, and yesterday off we went... To get to Wembley from Sittingbourne is easy, but takes a while, and involves some of England's most notorious roads: M2 (UK's main artery from Dover & Europe to London and the north); M25 (Terry Pratchet called it the Sigil of Darkness, and he was right! Think 80 mph traffic jam!); M1 (London to the NW via Birmingham and the industrial midlands! England's busiest road); North Circular (ARGH!); Hanger Lane Gyratory System (4 lane square roundabout, with 6 sets of triffid lights: you can go round 3 times before you reach escape velocity!). Oddly, for a hot Saturday in the mid wedding season, there were NO hold-ups, no jams, and even the Dartford Crossing was flowing freely! It took us about an hour and a half each way. Lunch was lovely: I had Morrocan Chicken with couscous, which worked out at about 6.5 points. Very good point and monetary value! Then we hit the fabric shop. Joshi's is fantastic! Doesn't look much on the outside, but INSIDE is like nothing else on Earth! There are thousands of rolls of fabric stacked up the walls, saris hanging from the ceiling, trims in boxes under the counter... And the back shop is worse! We spent quite a while pulling rolls out, grabbing this and that, piling things up, counting colours, making our minds up between satin and shot taffeta... We ended up buying: One 50m roll of 72" wide white bridal satin One 50m roll of 58" wide poly taffeta lining Twenty 2m pieces of nice shot poly taffeta in 20 different colours 5m of 70" wide white tulle veiling Lots of diamante crystals, iron on... 3m red cotton for a tunic 7.5m braid for the tunic project... I also bought some fabric for myself and a couple of customer projects, and paid an outstanding bill for other bridesmaid fabrics and a roll of lining... All my slimming and wardrobe clearance means I need NEW CLOTHES! YIPPEEEEE! The girls and the uncles in the shop were having a real giggle with us about all this fabric, and having a bit of a time keeping the two piles separate! 155 metres of fabric later, we were justabout done! One of the uncles loaded the fabric in the car for us, and as we were chatting, I had a wonderful NSV. Now, keep in mind that the girls and the uncles know me well. I shop there fairly often, I do quite a lot of business with them over the phone, and via my web site Fabric List, put a lot of business their way. They KNOW what I look and sound like. One of the girls said: THAT'S not Kate! Kate's MUCH bigger than THAT! Then she heard me speak: Oh! It IS Kate! Wow! You ARE looking good! Woo Hoo! Now I like Joshi's shop even better! So there you are - the results of a high fibre diet! And the lots of bridesmaids? There will be 20 of them. All in different coloured tops and white skirts! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
that is wonderful, good for you!!!, Lee
Kate Dicey wrote in message ... I went fabric shopping yesterday... Now you may think 'What has this to do with losing weight?' and 'Why is this so special for a professional dress and costume maker?' Bear with me... This is what my DH calls a Scottish Story (long, involved, full of digression, but we get there eventually!). A couple of weeks back, at the Rochester Sweeps festival (the one where we had a houseful, and took a bus to see the Morris Dancing!), I met an acquaintance in the street: a bloke I've known slightly for many years. He's getting married again, and his wife to be is a lovely lady, but severely blonde! She said she wanted a wedding dress and LOTS of little bridesmaid dresses, but not your usual bevy of pastel flower girls. Notice that word, 'lots'... We'll get back to it! I gave her a card, and she rang me during the week. We had a meeting last Saturday, and she chose some patterns, and we looked at fabric samples, and she said more bridesmaids... OK, no problem. But the wedding is mid August! Hehehehehe! (Gibber... ) We decided that the best thing to do about fabric was to go up to Wembley, to the Ealing Road, where there is a fantastic fabric shop, like Aladdin's cave! We thought lunch at IKEA would be good, to set us up nicely for the shopping, so this was duly arranged. I went out and got the patterns, so we had an idea or two about yardage, and yesterday off we went... To get to Wembley from Sittingbourne is easy, but takes a while, and involves some of England's most notorious roads: M2 (UK's main artery from Dover & Europe to London and the north); M25 (Terry Pratchet called it the Sigil of Darkness, and he was right! Think 80 mph traffic jam!); M1 (London to the NW via Birmingham and the industrial midlands! England's busiest road); North Circular (ARGH!); Hanger Lane Gyratory System (4 lane square roundabout, with 6 sets of triffid lights: you can go round 3 times before you reach escape velocity!). Oddly, for a hot Saturday in the mid wedding season, there were NO hold-ups, no jams, and even the Dartford Crossing was flowing freely! It took us about an hour and a half each way. Lunch was lovely: I had Morrocan Chicken with couscous, which worked out at about 6.5 points. Very good point and monetary value! Then we hit the fabric shop. Joshi's is fantastic! Doesn't look much on the outside, but INSIDE is like nothing else on Earth! There are thousands of rolls of fabric stacked up the walls, saris hanging from the ceiling, trims in boxes under the counter... And the back shop is worse! We spent quite a while pulling rolls out, grabbing this and that, piling things up, counting colours, making our minds up between satin and shot taffeta... We ended up buying: One 50m roll of 72" wide white bridal satin One 50m roll of 58" wide poly taffeta lining Twenty 2m pieces of nice shot poly taffeta in 20 different colours 5m of 70" wide white tulle veiling Lots of diamante crystals, iron on... 3m red cotton for a tunic 7.5m braid for the tunic project... I also bought some fabric for myself and a couple of customer projects, and paid an outstanding bill for other bridesmaid fabrics and a roll of lining... All my slimming and wardrobe clearance means I need NEW CLOTHES! YIPPEEEEE! The girls and the uncles in the shop were having a real giggle with us about all this fabric, and having a bit of a time keeping the two piles separate! 155 metres of fabric later, we were justabout done! One of the uncles loaded the fabric in the car for us, and as we were chatting, I had a wonderful NSV. Now, keep in mind that the girls and the uncles know me well. I shop there fairly often, I do quite a lot of business with them over the phone, and via my web site Fabric List, put a lot of business their way. They KNOW what I look and sound like. One of the girls said: THAT'S not Kate! Kate's MUCH bigger than THAT! Then she heard me speak: Oh! It IS Kate! Wow! You ARE looking good! Woo Hoo! Now I like Joshi's shop even better! So there you are - the results of a high fibre diet! And the lots of bridesmaids? There will be 20 of them. All in different coloured tops and white skirts! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
Nathalie W wrote:
Sounds like you had a great day, topped with a wonderful NSV! I 'd like to see those bridesmaids' outfits, make sure to post them on your site when they 're ready! They'll be there! I promised the bride I'd document the whole process, and diary the lot! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
Michelle Guy wrote:
Sounds like you are going to be very busy between now and the middle of August, no time for nibbling. Michelle : Ozzie in Switzerland 69.8/???/61kg There HAD to be an up side to this somewhere! ;P -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
On Sun, 16 May 2004 23:32:04 +0100, Kate Dicey
wrote: I went fabric shopping yesterday... Glad you had a nice day and what a great NSV M1 (London to the NW via Birmingham and the industrial midlands! England's busiest road); Englands biggest car park North Circular (ARGH!); Hanger Lane Gyratory System (4 lane square roundabout, with 6 sets of triffid lights: you can go round 3 times before you reach escape velocity!). They KNOW what I look and sound like. One of the girls said: THAT'S not Kate! Kate's MUCH bigger than THAT! Then she heard me speak: Oh! It IS Kate! Wow! You ARE looking good! Woo Hoo! Now I like Joshi's shop even better! So there you are - the results of a high fibre diet! Wonderful Ray -- rmnsuk 273/193/182 |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
Kate,
That's wonderful!! To be so slim someone didn't recognise you!! Congrats!! 20 bridesmaid dresses...ack!! -- Cheers, Connie Walsh 241.5/191.5/155 WNM 193.5/191.5/181.5 30 lbs to go 191.5/191.5/185 "Kate Dicey" wrote in message ... I went fabric shopping yesterday... Now you may think 'What has this to do with losing weight?' and 'Why is this so special for a professional dress and costume maker?' Bear with me... This is what my DH calls a Scottish Story (long, involved, full of digression, but we get there eventually!). A couple of weeks back, at the Rochester Sweeps festival (the one where we had a houseful, and took a bus to see the Morris Dancing!), I met an acquaintance in the street: a bloke I've known slightly for many years. He's getting married again, and his wife to be is a lovely lady, but severely blonde! She said she wanted a wedding dress and LOTS of little bridesmaid dresses, but not your usual bevy of pastel flower girls. Notice that word, 'lots'... We'll get back to it! I gave her a card, and she rang me during the week. We had a meeting last Saturday, and she chose some patterns, and we looked at fabric samples, and she said more bridesmaids... OK, no problem. But the wedding is mid August! Hehehehehe! (Gibber... ) We decided that the best thing to do about fabric was to go up to Wembley, to the Ealing Road, where there is a fantastic fabric shop, like Aladdin's cave! We thought lunch at IKEA would be good, to set us up nicely for the shopping, so this was duly arranged. I went out and got the patterns, so we had an idea or two about yardage, and yesterday off we went... To get to Wembley from Sittingbourne is easy, but takes a while, and involves some of England's most notorious roads: M2 (UK's main artery from Dover & Europe to London and the north); M25 (Terry Pratchet called it the Sigil of Darkness, and he was right! Think 80 mph traffic jam!); M1 (London to the NW via Birmingham and the industrial midlands! England's busiest road); North Circular (ARGH!); Hanger Lane Gyratory System (4 lane square roundabout, with 6 sets of triffid lights: you can go round 3 times before you reach escape velocity!). Oddly, for a hot Saturday in the mid wedding season, there were NO hold-ups, no jams, and even the Dartford Crossing was flowing freely! It took us about an hour and a half each way. Lunch was lovely: I had Morrocan Chicken with couscous, which worked out at about 6.5 points. Very good point and monetary value! Then we hit the fabric shop. Joshi's is fantastic! Doesn't look much on the outside, but INSIDE is like nothing else on Earth! There are thousands of rolls of fabric stacked up the walls, saris hanging from the ceiling, trims in boxes under the counter... And the back shop is worse! We spent quite a while pulling rolls out, grabbing this and that, piling things up, counting colours, making our minds up between satin and shot taffeta... We ended up buying: One 50m roll of 72" wide white bridal satin One 50m roll of 58" wide poly taffeta lining Twenty 2m pieces of nice shot poly taffeta in 20 different colours 5m of 70" wide white tulle veiling Lots of diamante crystals, iron on... 3m red cotton for a tunic 7.5m braid for the tunic project... I also bought some fabric for myself and a couple of customer projects, and paid an outstanding bill for other bridesmaid fabrics and a roll of lining... All my slimming and wardrobe clearance means I need NEW CLOTHES! YIPPEEEEE! The girls and the uncles in the shop were having a real giggle with us about all this fabric, and having a bit of a time keeping the two piles separate! 155 metres of fabric later, we were justabout done! One of the uncles loaded the fabric in the car for us, and as we were chatting, I had a wonderful NSV. Now, keep in mind that the girls and the uncles know me well. I shop there fairly often, I do quite a lot of business with them over the phone, and via my web site Fabric List, put a lot of business their way. They KNOW what I look and sound like. One of the girls said: THAT'S not Kate! Kate's MUCH bigger than THAT! Then she heard me speak: Oh! It IS Kate! Wow! You ARE looking good! Woo Hoo! Now I like Joshi's shop even better! So there you are - the results of a high fibre diet! And the lots of bridesmaids? There will be 20 of them. All in different coloured tops and white skirts! |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
You're going to be quite busy!
What a great NSV, thanks for sharing. :-) Julie "Kate Dicey" wrote in message ... I went fabric shopping yesterday... Now you may think 'What has this to do with losing weight?' and 'Why is this so special for a professional dress and costume maker?' Bear with me... This is what my DH calls a Scottish Story (long, involved, full of digression, but we get there eventually!). A couple of weeks back, at the Rochester Sweeps festival (the one where we had a houseful, and took a bus to see the Morris Dancing!), I met an acquaintance in the street: a bloke I've known slightly for many years. He's getting married again, and his wife to be is a lovely lady, but severely blonde! She said she wanted a wedding dress and LOTS of little bridesmaid dresses, but not your usual bevy of pastel flower girls. Notice that word, 'lots'... We'll get back to it! I gave her a card, and she rang me during the week. We had a meeting last Saturday, and she chose some patterns, and we looked at fabric samples, and she said more bridesmaids... OK, no problem. But the wedding is mid August! Hehehehehe! (Gibber... ) We decided that the best thing to do about fabric was to go up to Wembley, to the Ealing Road, where there is a fantastic fabric shop, like Aladdin's cave! We thought lunch at IKEA would be good, to set us up nicely for the shopping, so this was duly arranged. I went out and got the patterns, so we had an idea or two about yardage, and yesterday off we went... To get to Wembley from Sittingbourne is easy, but takes a while, and involves some of England's most notorious roads: M2 (UK's main artery from Dover & Europe to London and the north); M25 (Terry Pratchet called it the Sigil of Darkness, and he was right! Think 80 mph traffic jam!); M1 (London to the NW via Birmingham and the industrial midlands! England's busiest road); North Circular (ARGH!); Hanger Lane Gyratory System (4 lane square roundabout, with 6 sets of triffid lights: you can go round 3 times before you reach escape velocity!). Oddly, for a hot Saturday in the mid wedding season, there were NO hold-ups, no jams, and even the Dartford Crossing was flowing freely! It took us about an hour and a half each way. Lunch was lovely: I had Morrocan Chicken with couscous, which worked out at about 6.5 points. Very good point and monetary value! Then we hit the fabric shop. Joshi's is fantastic! Doesn't look much on the outside, but INSIDE is like nothing else on Earth! There are thousands of rolls of fabric stacked up the walls, saris hanging from the ceiling, trims in boxes under the counter... And the back shop is worse! We spent quite a while pulling rolls out, grabbing this and that, piling things up, counting colours, making our minds up between satin and shot taffeta... We ended up buying: One 50m roll of 72" wide white bridal satin One 50m roll of 58" wide poly taffeta lining Twenty 2m pieces of nice shot poly taffeta in 20 different colours 5m of 70" wide white tulle veiling Lots of diamante crystals, iron on... 3m red cotton for a tunic 7.5m braid for the tunic project... I also bought some fabric for myself and a couple of customer projects, and paid an outstanding bill for other bridesmaid fabrics and a roll of lining... All my slimming and wardrobe clearance means I need NEW CLOTHES! YIPPEEEEE! The girls and the uncles in the shop were having a real giggle with us about all this fabric, and having a bit of a time keeping the two piles separate! 155 metres of fabric later, we were justabout done! One of the uncles loaded the fabric in the car for us, and as we were chatting, I had a wonderful NSV. Now, keep in mind that the girls and the uncles know me well. I shop there fairly often, I do quite a lot of business with them over the phone, and via my web site Fabric List, put a lot of business their way. They KNOW what I look and sound like. One of the girls said: THAT'S not Kate! Kate's MUCH bigger than THAT! Then she heard me speak: Oh! It IS Kate! Wow! You ARE looking good! Woo Hoo! Now I like Joshi's shop even better! So there you are - the results of a high fibre diet! And the lots of bridesmaids? There will be 20 of them. All in different coloured tops and white skirts! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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A really good fun NSV! Results of a High Fibre Diet! ;)
What a shopping NSV for you. You are going to be a very busy lady for a few
months. "Kate Dicey" wrote in message ... I went fabric shopping yesterday... Now you may think 'What has this to do with losing weight?' and 'Why is this so special for a professional dress and costume maker?' Bear with me... This is what my DH calls a Scottish Story (long, involved, full of digression, but we get there eventually!). A couple of weeks back, at the Rochester Sweeps festival (the one where we had a houseful, and took a bus to see the Morris Dancing!), I met an acquaintance in the street: a bloke I've known slightly for many years. He's getting married again, and his wife to be is a lovely lady, but severely blonde! She said she wanted a wedding dress and LOTS of little bridesmaid dresses, but not your usual bevy of pastel flower girls. Notice that word, 'lots'... We'll get back to it! I gave her a card, and she rang me during the week. We had a meeting last Saturday, and she chose some patterns, and we looked at fabric samples, and she said more bridesmaids... OK, no problem. But the wedding is mid August! Hehehehehe! (Gibber... ) We decided that the best thing to do about fabric was to go up to Wembley, to the Ealing Road, where there is a fantastic fabric shop, like Aladdin's cave! We thought lunch at IKEA would be good, to set us up nicely for the shopping, so this was duly arranged. I went out and got the patterns, so we had an idea or two about yardage, and yesterday off we went... To get to Wembley from Sittingbourne is easy, but takes a while, and involves some of England's most notorious roads: M2 (UK's main artery from Dover & Europe to London and the north); M25 (Terry Pratchet called it the Sigil of Darkness, and he was right! Think 80 mph traffic jam!); M1 (London to the NW via Birmingham and the industrial midlands! England's busiest road); North Circular (ARGH!); Hanger Lane Gyratory System (4 lane square roundabout, with 6 sets of triffid lights: you can go round 3 times before you reach escape velocity!). Oddly, for a hot Saturday in the mid wedding season, there were NO hold-ups, no jams, and even the Dartford Crossing was flowing freely! It took us about an hour and a half each way. Lunch was lovely: I had Morrocan Chicken with couscous, which worked out at about 6.5 points. Very good point and monetary value! Then we hit the fabric shop. Joshi's is fantastic! Doesn't look much on the outside, but INSIDE is like nothing else on Earth! There are thousands of rolls of fabric stacked up the walls, saris hanging from the ceiling, trims in boxes under the counter... And the back shop is worse! We spent quite a while pulling rolls out, grabbing this and that, piling things up, counting colours, making our minds up between satin and shot taffeta... We ended up buying: One 50m roll of 72" wide white bridal satin One 50m roll of 58" wide poly taffeta lining Twenty 2m pieces of nice shot poly taffeta in 20 different colours 5m of 70" wide white tulle veiling Lots of diamante crystals, iron on... 3m red cotton for a tunic 7.5m braid for the tunic project... I also bought some fabric for myself and a couple of customer projects, and paid an outstanding bill for other bridesmaid fabrics and a roll of lining... All my slimming and wardrobe clearance means I need NEW CLOTHES! YIPPEEEEE! The girls and the uncles in the shop were having a real giggle with us about all this fabric, and having a bit of a time keeping the two piles separate! 155 metres of fabric later, we were justabout done! One of the uncles loaded the fabric in the car for us, and as we were chatting, I had a wonderful NSV. Now, keep in mind that the girls and the uncles know me well. I shop there fairly often, I do quite a lot of business with them over the phone, and via my web site Fabric List, put a lot of business their way. They KNOW what I look and sound like. One of the girls said: THAT'S not Kate! Kate's MUCH bigger than THAT! Then she heard me speak: Oh! It IS Kate! Wow! You ARE looking good! Woo Hoo! Now I like Joshi's shop even better! So there you are - the results of a high fibre diet! And the lots of bridesmaids? There will be 20 of them. All in different coloured tops and white skirts! -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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