{"id":489,"date":"2007-04-25T20:55:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-11-01T19:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:21:27","slug":"a-little-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"a little walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

well, sort of! I had a little shopping trip yesterday, one I have not done for a long long time, looking at these bags, any ideas?<\/p>\n

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Not very hard : ) Yes I had a lovely stroll going from VV Rouleaux to Liberty via The Button Queen and Macculloch and Wallis. It was trimtastic!!<\/p>\n

So I shall start at the beginning, I had a chance to nip up to London with John, he had a meeting that would just be in the morning, so we trained up, and then I had about 3 hours to submerge myself in trims, buttons and fabrics, and I tried my best to do all of that and more.<\/p>\n

So I took the tube up to Bond Street and went to VV Rouleaux<\/a> and it was amazing, if you haven’t been there then go, now! I spent about an hour in there, and I really needed double that, there was so much stuff, including this,<\/p>\n

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and this,<\/p>\n

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Just wonderful, isn’t it, a lovely soft wool felt with red hearts embroidered along the length, and there is more,<\/p>\n

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they make me want to have pretty little girls with smocked dresses, no, stop that thought now, and there are more, it is a big post this one,<\/p>\n

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I think I will get alot of use out of these, more, more and more,<\/p>\n

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I will use both of these on the next robot I’m making, did I mention that before, yes, I’m making another one, but for the same purpose : )<\/p>\n

Well that was that shop, and then I moved onto The Button Queen<\/a>, a very sweet little shop, which again I really wish I had spent more time in, I really rused the first three places because I wanted to spend time in Liberty, but we are getting to that!<\/p>\n

At the Button Queen I got these,<\/p>\n

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All lovely buttons, the sheel ones are made from Paua, which I have not seen as buttons before, they are all small as well, adding to my collection.<\/p>\n

Next I went to Macculloch & Wallis<\/a> which was another really old shop, stacks of boxes, and all a bit rough and ready, but crammed full of everything you could ever need, I mean they had elastic to mend you bra straps, and industrial reflective stuff for putting on workmens jackets!<\/p>\n

So from there, interesting trim,<\/p>\n

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The bottom trim is like Lycra, which I will use again on the next robot, yay!<\/p>\n

And then I moved onto Liberty<\/a>, which I was so looking forward to, and as with all these things you hype up, it was a disappointment : (<\/p>\n

They didn’t seem to have as much fabric as they did the last time I went, all the fabric was so expensive, and madly so, and it just felt like it was there for tourists, maybe I being too mean, after all I did get these,<\/p>\n

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and these two remnants,<\/p>\n

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So I have lots to play with, I escaped the house and children for a while, and I really enjoyed myself. If you do it spend more time at VV Rouleaux rather than Liberty! And it’s a nice walk too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

well, sort of! I had a little shopping trip yesterday, one I have not done for a long long time, looking at these bags, any ideas? Not very hard : ) Yes I had a lovely stroll going from VV Rouleaux to Liberty via The Button Queen and Macculloch and Wallis. It was trimtastic!! So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovely-things-to-use","category-sewing-fabric","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}