First Day in The New Shop!

Hurray!

We are open, and the shop looks great. It has been a lot of hard work and it would not have happened without the support and help from a lot of people. It has paid off though, you can see all the fabrics, there is space to move around.

Please come and see us in the new Threads and Patches! our 'Grand official Opening' will be Saturday 18th July but we are there every day in between (except Sundays!)

See you soon!

Sally

Cleaners Wanted!

Hi,

we are getting on with the new building, most of this weekend I have spent putting in the new wooden flooring and Tony has been putting up fibreboard ready for all those gorgeous quilts.

It has been the most glorious summer weekend and we have spent most of it slaving over a hot saw / hammer/ strange floor fixing tool. Many thanks must go to Gill and Keith Thomas who came and joined us for a few hours on Sunday morning and David who is doing a great job of documenting the changes every week photographicaly, not to mention cutting down the weeds in the garden

The next big job is cleaning, all the building, sawing and drilling have created a layer of dust that pervades everything and I need it to go before I can move the fabrics in to the shop, so the next couple of days will be a cleaning frenzy (after I have finished the floor of course!).

On friday Gill Dalgleish who has been comng almost every day to paint left to go on a well deserved holiday! she has done such a great job for me and I am so grateful for all her time and enthusiasm - Have a great holiday Gill!

Hi, well today was more slog at the new shop, but grateful to say I had a good number of helpers, including my daughter Jenny who had not seen the building since before we bought it. Today we almost finished he kitchen, Stephen and Glynis had done sterling work on it yesterday. Jill Dalgleish has been coming to help almost every week day - painting like fury! Mandy Beacham and Evelyn Joy also joined the painters and cleaners today.

Over the last weeks or so the following people have generously given their time to help with getting the shop ready, if I miss anyone, I am truely sorry . Gwen, Thelma, Pam, Mike, Dawn, Neil, Stephen, Glynis, Louise & Man, Nicole & Steve, Rowena, Martin, Steve T, Tom, Anita, Andy, Jenny, Kathy, Evelyn, Sue, Jan, Mary & Peter, Marie, David, Ned, Zannah, Margaret & Doug, Tom W, Cheryl & Mary, Sally-Anne, Jean, Barbara, Marilyn,.

Hope I have got every body, I am bound to have missed someone!

Tomorrow we should finish the Slatwall. Then it will really feel like a shop.

Come and see it when its finished!