Tuesday 14 October 2014

Good news, very good news and not so good news

 Firstly I have most of the border twists sewn on. I just have to draft those corners. Yay me! I cannot fit it all in the photo, the top now measures 95" X 95" and I have nowhere with this amount of free space. I think when it is done, I can dismantle the table, move the chairs elsewhere, set up my quilt stand and use the height of the vaulted ceiling in the dining area to get a shot. I think. I will not know until I try and as it will be such a big thing to organise, it won't happen until it is finished, quilted and bound.

Remember the lovely book I recomended in my last post? I thought the fabric looked familiar. I went through my stash and found it. Mine is not 200 years old like the one on the cover, just 29 years old. In 1985 we lost Laura Ashley in a tragic event. In this same year she developed this fabric. I wonder if she roamed the floors of the Victoria and Albert museum? Her version lacks a few of the tiny details, but the difference is negligible.
And the dust jacket opened out on the fabric.
I know I have shown other chintz of vintage Laura Ashley fabrics before. My stash of them is slowly growing.
This Chinoiserie one I picked up just this week.

And the bad news? My hard drive died on Sunday. I bought a whole new PC yesterday and it was delivered today. It is plugged in and all the bits and bobs, screen, keyboard, mouse, speakers etc are all plugged into it. I have not turned it on yet, tomorrow will be early enough to come to terms with the dreaded Windows 8.

This time I decided to go the route most people take and bought it from a retail shop (John Lewis). Normally we buy our kit from company suppliers but they really don't give a tuppence ha'penny when things go wrong. And like cobbler's children who don't get new shoes, the amount of PC support I get at home is lamentable. It is a long drive to find a shop selling PC's and John Lewis department store give free next day delivery to their sister company, Waitrose Supermarkets and we have one of those just 3 or 4 miles down the hill.
I couldn't resist picking up these lovely flowers.
I always feel it is a delightful extravagance to buy flowers for the kitchen (and I have a couple of large vases of lillies on the dining table when it doesn't have a quilt top draped over it) but when we spend more time in here than any other room, it makes sense.

13 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh that is such a large quilt and how lovely it looks with its edging going on now. Fabulous fabrics there to play with some time in the future, and what a treasure you have with the book. You can never have tow many flowers in a house LOL. Cheers Glenda

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  2. Oh my gosh that is such a large quilt and how lovely it looks with its edging going on now. Fabulous fabrics there to play with some time in the future, and what a treasure you have with the book. You can never have tow many flowers in a house LOL. Cheers Glenda

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  3. G'day Sally,
    Looking forward to seeing this awesome quilt finished. - I have to take my big ones outside to photograph. Grab my DS#2 and his professional gear and pretend we are doing a magazine shoot! ;-)
    Cheers Wendy.

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  4. I wondered about using tables pushed together at a local church. I have decided to skip Windows 8 and go straight to 10.

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  5. Your appliqué is beautiful and thanks for the picture of the beautiful Laura Ashley fabric. So sorry about the PC. When they work......

    ginabeth

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  6. Beautiful quilt - hope that you do manage to get a 'flat shot' of it when it's finished so that you can show us!
    So interesting to see the book cover / fabric.
    Hope that your PC adventure goes well. Always a time wasting activity, setting everything up anew, isn't it?

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  7. That quilt will be a glorious finish!! "Laura Ashley"....a name I've not thought about in ages!!! Love EVERYTHING "Laura"!! The book jacket/fabric is exquisite....luxury, elegance personified. A treasure!!! Dreamy post! Hugs from across the pond!

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  8. That quilt is just beautiful. I love the design you came up with for the border. So interesting about the fabric. Thanks for sharing.

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  9. Your quilt top is lovely. Can't wait to see the finish. I recently purchased that book online, arriving Friday. You are so lucky to have some of the fabric from the cover. Wish I could find it. Sounds like you have a nice collection of vintage fabrics.

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  10. How fun to have the fabric on the book. :) And it sure is a gorgeous one, too. And: WAY TO GO with your quilt! So much love and work in it - you must be excited to be this close to the finish.

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  11. How fun to have the fabric on the book. :) And it sure is a gorgeous one, too. And: WAY TO GO with your quilt! So much love and work in it - you must be excited to be this close to the finish.

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  12. WOW that fabric sings out to me! I love it! As for your PC, I have had no end of computer troubles and I think I'm just too old to keep upgrading every few years (although I do, you have to) and I am *just* getting a grip on Windows 7 and I'm not ready for 8. My DD has it and I hate it, I really hope they do something else before I have to upgrade.

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