“Little Jute Owl from Bangladesh” became a household curse. (Aunt and uncle were in the oil exploration business and travelled a lot, and brought back strange useless things.)
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Dick Strawbridge is an engineer, & chef turned into all round good egg. His wife Angela has an interior design business. They have the eye, & ability, & tools to turn / repair broken things & fashion them into summat Noo.
I think that the programme is excellent, a spin off from the hugely successful ‘Escape to the Chateau’ series, which has funded the repairs to their own Chateau over the last 5 years.
Showing a child how to make summat useful, & helping them is great. It’s the droopy wall-hangings I can’t abide…
Carinthia.xx
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Huh. The poppers on a double duvet-cover have died, and it is a nice cover, but where am I going to get decent replacement poppers, and what sort are decent ones that are easy to insert anyway? I mean, I suppose I could do buttons and button-holes, but honestly I wouldn’t get round to it and anyway buttons are a pain to do and undo with every change of bedding…
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You can buy ready made popper tape to sew on, Fishy, or continuous zip by the metre, with as many zip pulls as you like. You would only lose about an inch from the length, which isn’t usually a problem.
Carinthia.xx
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Oh, that’s brilliant! Thank you! (wanders off to look for those on the internet, since I can’t go to a haberdasher’s and ask just at the moment)
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Zipperstation have an excellent range of specialist zips too. I found them via ebay when I needed a particular weight & finish.
Amazon, as ever, & also my beloved Fred’s Haberdashery.
Free postage on orders over £25
Carinthia.xx
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I found Zipperstation, and they allow you to buy 2 metres – which is what I need, since the zip needs to be red, orange or dark yellow, and I don’t really have a use for five metres of which three would be left in a mending box forever – and Amazon don’t seem to, or not the ones I have looked at there. But I’ll have a check of Fred’s too.
edited to add They don’t have red, orange or dark yellow, so Zipperstation it is.
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Hurrah for an Carinthia!
Soo xx
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Slammers for her also!
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Justly deserved.
Soo xx
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That’s great, Fishy.
As the zips aren’t generally seen, people who make cushion covers, & the like, tend to buy white or beige onna roll.
Another way of doing it is to sew a flap of fabric about 12" deep inside, like a ‘Housewife’ Pillock case. Again, it won’t be seen…
Carinthia.xx
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The zip has been ordered, now, so that’s what is going to be used. The postage was more than the cost of the zip, and the VAT brought them nearly level!
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It will do the job, & save the cover, Fishy
If you consider the big Pillockcase idea though, you can use any sheeting you may have, or even buy 1 cheaply, innan strong, dark colour, & use the hemmed ends, & selvages, to save having another damn thing to do…
Said with feeling… 
Carinthia.xx
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I wonder if these posts should be moved to the Knittery/Stitchery thread? [Isn’t that where all thread should be? - Ed.]
Not concerned with “thread drift”, but they’d be easier to find if anyone needs to refer back to them.
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Go for it, Joe.
(And then move your reply to Gus back here?)
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Addendum:
Fred’s has free shipping on orders over £5 during February, so stock up on supplies!
Carinthia.xx
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Aha!
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Your comment about mending boxes, dear Fish, had me rummaging through mine to find my last embroidery project. I’ll give it an iron and possibly post the pic, sometime.
Soo xx
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Extra Gin fer Photies, Soo
Carinthia.xx
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Me, I am unreasonably delighted to discover that tape with poppers on exists. What will they think of next?
Gxx
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