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Reception => Hi, I'm new... => Topic started by: Queen Bee on January 31, 2021, 22:51:49 PM
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Hello everyone, I am excited to join your sewing community, and I am looking forward to broadening my sewing knowledge.
I have been sewing off and on all of my life but have been regularly sewing during the lockdown to keep me busy.
I am hoping that I can get some inspiration for getting a better finish and fit to the garments I make going forward.
I also hope to start a patchwork quilt ( I have the material, warding and thread) but feel intimidated and keep putting back in the cupboard.
Thanks for reading my post.
Queen Bee
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Hello and welcome.
Come on over to The Dark Side and join us .We'll help with your p and q questions, we're very friendly and chatty and......We have biscuits!! :dance:
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Welcome @Queen Bee :drink: :flower:
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Hello @Queen Bee!
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Hello and welcome @Queen Bee
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@Queen Bee , welcome from me too!
I'm probably closer to you than you'd like :) , although I didn't start life as a Lancashire Lass. I've been up here for the last 38 years so think I've been accepted by the 'natives' ( I'd never go back to where I was born )
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Hello there...
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Hello & welcome!
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Hello and welcome - just in case no-one else mentions it, we love to see pics of everything you make 0_0
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Hi @Queen Bee and welcome. I used to be a regular visitor to Chorley until my friend moved a couple of years ago! Looking forward to seeing your makes.
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Hello and welcome!
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I didn’t know there were biscuits! :meow:
Welcome and enjoy
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Welcome @Queen Bee We're happy to advise, inspire, tempt and corrupt :devil: Once you have taken the plunge into p & q there's no going back :).
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A big welcome from me too! Another here who isn't a million miles away from you!
Grad yourself a brew :drink: and join in!
Jessie
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Hello and welcome to TSP
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Hello from me too @Queen Bee :cake: :vintage:
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and from me, too @Queen Bee ! :toast:
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Hello Queen Bee and welcome from another Lancastrian but this one moved to Bedfordshire in 1982 - still there but with my accent intact. I was 30 when we moved.
I don't know what part of the county you're in but my own love of sewing was born there and really blossomed as a young mum sewing during very tough financial days thanks to fantastic remnants from Leyland Market and Chorley Flat Iron in particular. I don't know if they can still compete with the likes of Abakhan and Immanuel's these days, we rarely get up there (last visit more than two years ago) but I always try to wangle a visit to the chapel when we do.
Talking of biscuits... my former work colleagues became very partial to my regular treat of oat biscuits from Leyland Market which they fondly called my Lancashire biscuits. They never really got the taste for Goosnargh cakes (https://fabulousfusionfood.blogspot.com/2019/04/goosnargh-cakes-recipe.html) (a very local speciality) but I miss those the most. Parched peas too. :P
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Hello & welcome from me too @Queen Bee
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... Leyland Market and Chorley Flat Iron in particular. I don't know if they can still compete with the likes of Abakhan and Immanuel's these days, . . .
Talking of biscuits... my former work colleagues became very partial to my regular treat of oat biscuits from Leyland Market which they fondly called my Lancashire biscuits. They never really got the taste for Goosnargh cakes (https://fabulousfusionfood.blogspot.com/2019/04/goosnargh-cakes-recipe.html) (a very local speciality) but I miss those the most. Parched peas too. :P
@Marniesews Chorley Flat Iron is still there (and hopefully will be again after lockdown) although it is somewhat different with more permanent stalls compared with how it was 20years ago.
There is a useful haberdashery stall for fairly ordinary stuff, thread, buttons, zips, piping and general habby. Don't recall seeing a fabric stall there for some time.
For a while on Preston outdoor market there were a couple of fabric stalls, and the indoor market had another fabric stall but I suspect they've gone now, although I've not been for about 3 years now.
It's a place of last resort and very rare visits for me, but Abakhans at Preston is popular with some and there are/were some smaller fabric shops in the New Hall Lane and Ribbleton Lane Area - they were handy for the odd something different when I was working in Fullwood and Preston a while back.
Now I go to Immanuels and Fine Fabrics at Burnley and occasionally Greens at Blackburn (aka Leons). When it was open to the public we used to call in at Minervas at Darwen on the way back home from Burnely, but now they are on line only I buy very little from them if ever. Other than when I visit family in London or go to a couple of 'shows' , I tend to buy most other stuff on line.
As for Goosnargh Cakes - I've not seen or heard of them for a while. Bit like sugary shortbread with caraway seeds. Quite nice when fresh. There was a small bakery in Longridge that sold them and we'd have them occasionally at work, but we tended to prefer cakes from Lathams at Penwortham. As for parched peas (black peas for those who don't know them)- with or without vinegar, nope, no, not a fan, I never really took to those, even though both my parents loved them.
Glad to see you've joined us @Queen Bee . I look forward to hearing about your sewing projects.
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Thank you all for being so friendly and making me welcome. Just traced off the sew me something Emelia dress pattern, I have a length of blue linen that I think will make up nicely.(I will get my daughter to show me how to download images) so you will be able to see it
Queen Bee
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No need to be scared of The Darkside @Queen Bee .. there are lots of tutorials both HERE (https://thesewingplace.org.uk/index.php/topic,10266.0.html)and on the T'Internet .....
or try some of the BOM's, you've three years worth to choose from but I think for a beginner I would go with LAST YEARS (https://thesewingplace.org.uk/index.php/board,82.0.html) its the most coherent and if you follow it right through, you'll be rewarded with a lap quilt in the end!!!!
So come on over, we'll always be there to hold your hand :devil:
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Hello and welcome from me too, a bit late to the party.
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I'm late too but a warm welcome from me anyway! :) Do come on over to the Dark side - you'll love it I'm sure. :loveit:
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Hello from me too. :toast:
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Hello and welcome, from another newbie.
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Hello there, welcome.