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.