Here we are at another Wednesday's catch up with all our creative friends around the world....my favourite day of the week :-)
Since last Wednesday I've had a steady flow of customers and almost every one of them has collected their sewing when done but brought another job with them for me to do. I've finished all those replacement zips in the factory trousers and have spent a couple of hours working on the wedding dress...it's a harder job than I first thought and can now see why the first alterations lady said she couldn't do what was needed. [I never say never and am determined to get it perfect ....I don't think I've ever seen a bride smile so much than when she came for her last fitting so I know all my effort is soooooo worth it].
On Friday we had a little incident in my sewing room when hoovering and clearing away at the end of a busy day. When my hubby tried to pull out my cutting table unit to hoover up underneath the back of it collapsed and broke under the weight of all the fabric in the boxes [and the effort that was being put into pulling it out!!]. The unit had been made up with two older Expedit Ikea units plus one newer, and slightly smaller Kallax units with a table surface fixed to the top but it had broken and died. :-(
We had a good look at what was left of my cutting table and decided it was beyond repair so I finished work early and we drove to Ikea to buy 3 new Kallax cupboards to redesign it slightly to make my new cupboard rather stronger. We spent Saturday building my new unit and I'm rather thrilled with the results...
The old cupboards were light oak coloured and the new white cupboard makes my room look so much lighter and it's now a lot easier to pull in and out when needed...I love it.
The other thing I have to show you this week it another pair of Memory bears I've made for one of my regular customers who lost her hubby in October....they are made from his favourite shirt and jumper.
I hope you will leave me a little message so I know you've called in and I will do my best to call by to see what you've been up to this week.
Hugs,
Annie x
