Thursday, August 13, 2009

Straight, sort of...

Thought you'd enjoy seeing one of my Nehru Place purchases. I asked for half a metre of this checked fabric. The young man behind the counter snipped and tore the fabric to make a straight edge he could measure from. He then cut this piece for me.

It's 66cm at the short end, 85cm at the other. I'm so glad he tore to get a straight edge to start with! To think we used bitch about the fabric not being cut straight in quilt shops in the UK!

3 comments:

Sharon said...

When I moved to the US from Canada, I couldn't believe how inexpensive fabric was, and in OR there was no tax. When others would say "I can't believe the price of fabric" I would pop up and say "I know, it;s so cheap here" Shop owners would be happy to hear and then I explained and customers would say, Oh I guess I shouldn't complain! No kidding, some times you don;t know how good we have things!

Kate North said...

at least it's over half a metre even at the shorter end :)

Jacqueline said...

Oh, well, not that different from some customers quilt backings then!

Jax