Hi All

After my week at Denman I now need/want an Overlocker, thought I would ask here if anyone has one collecting dust that they might want to sell before I try Ebay.

Thanks,  Jacqui

Things are progressing and taking shape in the sewing room, we have all started and made some fine tuning to the bodices of our dresses.

We are a keen group starting are classes half an hour earlier than timetabled.  Today Christine asked us not to come back from lunch to early as she needed time to get the overlockers up and running, which if you have ever seen one looks like a fidley task that requires concentration and no interruptions. This seemed a good opportunity to drive into Abingdon to the highly recommended Mansons purveyors of fabrics, haberdashery, cake decorating equipment and basically anything to bring joy to the members of the WI. Mansons is spread over 3 shops.  I needed buttons but the rest of the group came too and better still Penny has a coveted blue badge so with some rather impressive reverse parallel parking (even if  I say so myself) we found a spot right outside.

Our journey was not without incident.  As we were leaving the car park I stopped as an approaching car was dropping off and letting passengers out.  Then I noticed the car moving towards me with the passenger door open It was as I was thinking silly idiot he hasn’t shut the door that I noticed that the driver/chauffeur wasn’t actually in the car but that he car was rolling towards me un-manned.  The driver did managed in true Frank Spencer style pull himself along the moving car and launch himself towards the handbrake just in time to stopp inches from my front bumper.  The biggest surprise of all was that from the back of the car came Alison Hammond off the telly. (Google her and you know who I mean).  She was very apologetic which is more than can be said for her Addison Lee ‘professional’ driver !

Quote of the day
Your boobs should be nearer your eyeballs that your a***!

 

Have risen and taken breakfast in the Lady Denman Resturant we were at our workstations by 9.00am.  The day began with aking and recording our measurements, from which our tutor esetimated our sizes and gave us each a pre-made callico bodice/come straight jacket which were worrn and pinned to our body shape.  These meaurements have now been transferred to paper and have created our own block templates that we each now have to take away and can form the base from which we can create more items of clothing at home to our own exact size.

Using our block template we have each created a new pattern unique to each of us nd based on our choosen design, mine is plain and simple with no sleeves others have chosen far more complicated deigns with pleats and wrap overs.  The word of the day has to be bossom. I dont think I have ever heard it used so often in the course of 12 hours !

There is not much time to relax during the day its full on classes right up until 9.00pm but I managed a half our walk around the grounds after lunch.  Here are some pictures of the gardens and the architecture

 

At the end of day two most of use are ready to start transferring our pattern shapes on to our fabrics and start cutting there was even talk of sewing tomorrow.

Appolgies for typos I only have a mini keyboard and a small tablet and very tired eyes.

Hope you all enjoyed the WI meeting this evening and the new tea regime went well.  More from Denman tomorrow

Regards Jacqui