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[LynneO]

Here is today's collection from Skopos. 12 bags which pretty much filled the car, and is slightly more than a normal fortnightly pickup (as I was on holiday and missed a week, so this is culled from 3 weeks of their remnants - I left behind more than I brought home too).





To add to some of the fabric already in the garage (there is more behind where I was stood ready for Beattie to collect soon!)



It is very nice quality material, so if anyone wants any, please let me know, as I need to get the garage emptied ASAP.

[beattie]

I don't think we're going to make ANY sort of dent in that lot in the garage Lynne! A car-load for you = a car load for us, I would think, approximately. Thanks for collecting it - you're right it's lovely stuff to work with & it would be a terrible shame to throw it away, which presumably is what happens to the stuff you don't take.

[funny sewing]

I would like to take some of the fantastic fabric. I only have to look if I could arrange a trave to you soon. It would be in the second week of Eastern as I have holiday.
I hope that is not too lage for you.
Will let you know soon.

[LynneO]

That would be great, Funny Sewing

Another possibility is that my husband goes to Nottingham for choir practices on some Sundays, so it might be easier for you to meet him around there, so it is not as far for you to drive up? This is how we get the fabric down to Offcuts quite often. If you think this may be easier, send me a message and I can find out some dates of when he is going, to see if any match when you are available. Thank you!

Don't worry Beattie, unless your car suddenly materialises into a Tardis, I know it won't make much of an impact, but every little helps - as they are so fond of saying Or, perhaps if I could find a car show round here that one of the fire tenders could come to, that would fit a bit more in...

By the way, is the offer of some Skopos bags still there? The Skopos lady gave some of the last lot to her church ladies group, who are thrilled with them, so she asked for about another 60 for the rest of them? I still have a few but warned it it may take a few weeks to get that number, so if you have any spare when you come up, I would be very grateful.

[Offcuts]

Great news, Funny sewing! Its lovely where Lynne lives!

[beattie]

if you have any spare when you come up, I would be very grateful.

No problem Lynne! I'll be very happy to trade with you. Does it matter if they're not all Skopos? We have all sorts of materials that we've used up.

[LynneO]

Thank you. I think as long as a good proportion are Skopos, it doesn't matter. I included a few of Offcut2's other fabric ones in last time and she didn't become indignant that she didn't recognise them, as I have explained previously that we get what we can from whoever. The ones I do are all made from Skopos, so when put together it will be alright.

[beattie]

It's OK Lynne, I had an audit of our stock and we've got 60 Skopos bags that we'll bring with us. It's amazing - our rate of production has fallen since November when we went to Vietnam, then we cleared away the sewing machines for Christmas, and haven't really got back into the habit of sewing a few bags every evening, but we still had about 120 in a pile. It's amazing how they mount up when you do a few every day.

[LynneO]

And I have some from the last International day (although smaller ones - which some people may prefer anyway, if they go to the shop every day to just pick up a bit of something and the company). So I will cut out some normal ones for next week's day and they should be happy for a while

[funny sewing]

Hi LynneyO,
I will come back to you when I am back in Leicester. In the moment I am in Paris and tromorrow I go to Bordeaux. I don't forgot to give you more information.

Greats,

Claudia

[Offcuts]

Funny Sewing, we would LOVE to see you at the Greenlight Festival on the 31st at DMU!

[LynneO]

No problem Funny Sewing. Hope you are enjoying your travels, it sounds very tiring but good too

[LynneO]

We are still getting lots of lovely fabric from Skopos, so if anyone wants any please get in touch. We somehow seem to manage a way to get it to most poeple who ask, one way or another. If we can't find someone making a trip your way at some point, there is always the My Hermes courier service, where we can send upto 15kg for around £10 to most places in the UK (and as I pick the lighter stuff to send like that, it is generally a bit more than a crisp box size amount I can squeeze in for 15kg).

After nearly emptying the shed of fabric and taking it to Leicester 2 weeks ago, it is now nearly full again (I can perhaps fit 1 or 2 more bags worth in there - 12 very full ones went in it on Weds!), so there is plenty to go around. Our next exchange to Leics was supposed to be June, but that is going to have to be brought forward now - if at all possible?? Did you say you were going to the Morsroom on a Thursday too at the moment or which Thurs dates, if not all, Offcuts?

[Offcuts]

Maybe I can ask Steve to do a pick up soon and then we can do the June 16th pick up in Notts. Some thursdays yes!

As Lynne says we can move it round the country to a certain extent. We do need homes for the blackout fabric especially! Are there any other allotments out there?!