Bargains! Bargains! Bargains!
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liadethorneggePlenty of bargains to be found downtown today! First, twelve pairs of hooks and eyes at 17 SKR per packet, and I got two packets (ie 24 hooks/eyes) At the same place, buttonhole silk, one spool of 10 m at 17 SKR. Cheaper than all the other places who carry it in town. W00t.
Then, my friends, I walked over to Olhssons Tyger& Stuvar where I found, in the remnant section, wool. Lovely, lovely, suiting weight wool. Charcoal/black in colour - will look basically black when worn. Two cuts, one at 2.9 metres, the other at 3.9 metres for which I paid 132 and 183 SKR respectively. Which works out at about 60 SKR per metre. This is an unbeatable price to pay. I thought I could use it for lining something which I want extra warm. Say a surcote for example? W00t. Possibly an underdress out of that alone? Possibly as a fashion fabric for another Tudor/'bethan gown? Possibilities are endless! Well, ok not really, but nearly three metres and nearly four metres - I can do loads with that!
That also clinches it - no more buying fabric until I have used up some! I also bought two nifty under-bed storage zipped bags. Emptying out my huge luggage from all of the fabric I filled one up to the brim with wool alone. Then I filled the other not quite as full with linen and sundry (consisting of offcuts of linen and wool, plus the green brocade that I had). I actually left my one and a half fur coats in the luggage, but it now fits the other piece of luggage inside it, takes less space and weighs nothing when I need to move it. Huge improvements. I just slide these two bags under my bed and they're out of the way as well. And, I can see my nifty lables from through the plastic top! Bargains! All in all, a good day of retail therapy, and all of it SCA-related.
p.s. Remember me organizing my fabric, labelling it, measuring it and writing it all up? Yeah, I've kept it up and with the new fabric from Visby and today I also entered in dimensions, price and a small sliver of fabric into my binder where I keep these records. Go me!
Then, my friends, I walked over to Olhssons Tyger& Stuvar where I found, in the remnant section, wool. Lovely, lovely, suiting weight wool. Charcoal/black in colour - will look basically black when worn. Two cuts, one at 2.9 metres, the other at 3.9 metres for which I paid 132 and 183 SKR respectively. Which works out at about 60 SKR per metre. This is an unbeatable price to pay. I thought I could use it for lining something which I want extra warm. Say a surcote for example? W00t. Possibly an underdress out of that alone? Possibly as a fashion fabric for another Tudor/'bethan gown? Possibilities are endless! Well, ok not really, but nearly three metres and nearly four metres - I can do loads with that!
That also clinches it - no more buying fabric until I have used up some! I also bought two nifty under-bed storage zipped bags. Emptying out my huge luggage from all of the fabric I filled one up to the brim with wool alone. Then I filled the other not quite as full with linen and sundry (consisting of offcuts of linen and wool, plus the green brocade that I had). I actually left my one and a half fur coats in the luggage, but it now fits the other piece of luggage inside it, takes less space and weighs nothing when I need to move it. Huge improvements. I just slide these two bags under my bed and they're out of the way as well. And, I can see my nifty lables from through the plastic top! Bargains! All in all, a good day of retail therapy, and all of it SCA-related.p.s. Remember me organizing my fabric, labelling it, measuring it and writing it all up? Yeah, I've kept it up and with the new fabric from Visby and today I also entered in dimensions, price and a small sliver of fabric into my binder where I keep these records. Go me!
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Date: 2005-08-17 07:10 pm (UTC)Dude. I wish I had that kind of discipline!
*eyes garage filled with storage boxes of fabric*
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Date: 2005-08-17 09:15 pm (UTC)I was going to be strong and _not_ buy anything at Visby either, so you see, you are not yet weaker than I - simply not so new as to only have two storage bags of fabric...
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Date: 2005-08-17 09:51 pm (UTC)I think The Stash is about 1/2 of the volume of Stuff heaped in our two-car car-less garage. And that doesn't take into effect the three to six projects IN the house...
*sigh*
I think we need to MOVE... away from convenient access to The Dangerous Store!