|
Posted by Roberta Zollner on April 1, 2008, 10:27 am
I post photos on Webshots, it's free and easy. There are other free sites
too. I'd love to see yours!
Fabric in Germany is not a cheap thrill, seems to run 2-3 times the US
prices. Although with the pathetic dollar exchange rate these past many
months, fabric prices in euros have actually gone down! (But since our
pension is paid in dollars :-( I'm not really saving anything, somehow!)
Have you tried online fabric sources in Germany? www.naehwelt-machemer.de is
one of the bigger ones. And I also like www.patchwork.at, which is located
in Vienna.
Roberta in D
> This last weekend DH and I went to Lille France for the weekend. Why
> Lilli? We it was on special for the train and for cheap we could jump
> on a high speed train (TGV) and 2.5 hours later be in a totally
> different part of the country. While there we found the "largest" book
> store in Europe. Don't know if I believe that, but it was rather
> large. I found the sewing section and started looking to see what I
> could find by original French authors in the way of quilting books. I
> found a couple and one in particular was actually worth buying. Now I
> have to find the time to wade through the language. Even when
> directions are in english, very seldom do I actually read the thing
> let alone follow directions! Three more weeks of school and then I am
> out for the summer so I hope to have lots of time... I also found a
> sewing shop in Lilli, well sort of, and they sold rulers for quilters.
> The large one, 6 inches wide by 36 inches (maybe) was 31 euros. Now
> that was sticker shock! I forgot to bring a ruler when I moved her. I
> have the machine, the fabric, the pattern, the rotary cutters...pins,
> needles, thread....I forgot a ruler! I go back the US again late this
> month so they are on my list to bring back. What was I thinking????
> Two fold on that, forgetting them and thinking I could buy one
> inexpensively here. Wow!
>
> Now for fabric, again, what is up with the French??? If you knit, you
> are in heaven. If you sew, forget it! I have to cross the border to
> Germany and even the smaller towns have a number of fabric shops. When
> I find fabric here it is for recovering your furniture. I have found
> the markets have fabric, but it is not quite the same. Oh well, as I
> acclimate here I am sure I will find the places to go, but already my
> new friends in the patchwork club have warned me that I am not living
> in the area to find fabric stores. Well bummer! OR maybe that is a
> YIPPY? I get to do road trips to Germany!!!!!!
>
> Ok, I am going to crawl back deep into my probability book now so that
> I can explain to the students how lognormal distributions work on
> thursday. Three more weeks :>)
>
> By the way, I would be glad to post a picture of the bag the French
> ladies liked and the sweater that I was wearing but... is there a way
> that can be done on this newsgroup or how do all y'all do that?
>
> Jean in Metz
| 
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap