“I worked hard, all the hours of the day, for many years running my own business, but all along I just wanted to find the time to sit & stitch. I’m about to tell you a tale that I’ve heard many times, in one form or another, over the last ten years, the last example only yesterday. HOWEVER there are huge savings to be made if you’re not averse to profiting by other people’s mistakes. Moths, for example, do not let you know they’ve invaded your stash… I know a lot of people are – cautious – about buying second-hand craft supplies and equipment sometimes things have “moved on” and equipment has been vastly improved, designs are very different to what people wanted 30 years ago, and some supplies may not have been quite as well-kept as one would wish. It’s been a while… but I am steaming towards fully-restored health now, and beginning to take up the reins of my little business, and feel up to nattering with the world again…Ī stall full of vintage oddities, fabulous old fabrics and genuinely useful stuff! Without them, sadly she’s just expensive firewood with them, she’s a beautiful and genuinely useful tool. So that will be a Quest for me over the next few months I either need to track some “orphan” parts down, or find something that can substitute for them. A 1979 Rappard Wee Peggy spinning wheel, originally from New Zealand, but alas, she’s missing her flyer, whorl & bobbins. I’m sure there was something serious I wanted to witter on about, but I’ve entirely forgotten what it was, thanks to finding most of a treasure at the recycling warehouse earlier this week. Some serious work called for over there! But some actual potential crops are thriving I planted Greek Gigantes beans for the first time, and despite the deluge they seem very happy & are racing up their wigwam. Needless to say, the weeds have galloped away one minute they were tiny, hardly worth hoeing off, then it rained for weeks and now they are thigh-high. So I have several sets of plants ready to go into the ground, but no ground to put them in! And my “first early” potatoes & my maincrops are clearly all going to be ready at the same time. The weird weather has left me with another space problem things that should have come out by now over at the allotment are still in the ground, only just starting to go over. And yes, the lawyers pulled it off and the sale went through a day early. Legally it was entirely possible the new buyer didn’t need a mortgage and the paperwork was all ready to roll, but it was still full of a lifetime’s possessions you can’t fit that much into her room at the care home, lovely though it is! So some of those possessions have ended up here with us some will be sold, a few bits used (proper glass lemon squeezies! Oh yes!) but others I will have to make space for until various offspring have homes of their own to house them in. But as the Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday tottered towards its end, we suddenly got a really good offer for it, provided the sale could go through within a week. The estate agents marketing it asked us to leave her stuff there, as it’s easier to sell a home that looks lived in. It had sold previously, but the chain collapsed at the last minute and the sale fell through. In the meantime, our house has filled up with stuff again we had a massive last-minute panic to empty my mother’s bungalow. That and some of the thread – I ran out! – are the only things bought new. There are a few touches that I hope will please the little man some chenilled seams to intrigue little fingers, and it’s bound with satin ribbon, remembering how much his father loved labels and other smooth textiles as a baby & small child. It’s not meant to be an heirloom but a totally practical, wash & wear everyday item. They have a night-sky theme going on in the nursery so the shapes & colours were chosen to fit in with that they look darker in the pictures than they actually are, thanks to the seemingly never-ending gloom in June.
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