A Tale of Two Shops
24 October 2008, 15:04Two different lots of sewing shopping arrived for me yesterday, and my experience with both shops couldn’t have been more different!
The first was from myfabrics.co.uk:
I ordered this stuff on September 12! It was so long ago I could hardly remember what some of it was for, and as it turned out, the jeans buttons were actually elaborate snaps, and what I thought was LauraLo‘s excellent fusible bias tape is actually just hemming tape. Grr. But that’s not the least of it – go read my store review here so as to keep the bile all contained in one place. Needless to say, I will not be shopping with them ever again.
The second parcel that arrived was ordered the day before (Wednesday), from the wonderful Pennine Outdoor:
I just needed an open-ended zipper and some cordlocks for my nephew’s sweatshirt, and they came through just as I knew they would! Less than 24 hours to get it from Yorkshire to London is pretty awesome. This is the third time I’ve shopped with them and I honestly can’t recommend them enough.
And because of their speedy shipping, I was able to complete my nephew’s hoodie this morning before work. Fingers crossed I can bribe our ten year old neighbour with some Wii time to come and model it for me…
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Do you mean this http://www.macculloch-wallis.co.uk/Product.aspx/!88918
? Or a thing without the line of chainstitching?
— anwen Oct 27, 12:28 AM #
Oh I left a comment here ages ago and I see now it has disappeared!!! Or it never went here!!! Yuck. Anyway, I wanted to tell you that here’s what I ordered my fusible tape: http://www.sewessential.co.uk/Search.asp?SearchString=vilene+bias+tape&x=27&y=17. Very nice product, quick shipping, affordable price.
— LauraLo Oct 30, 02:55 PM #