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Showing posts with label Kew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kew. Show all posts

Sunday, July 26, 2009

TNA and Tikki

Yesterday the boyfriend had some business at The National Archives at Kew and I went along for the ride and to visit Tikki Patchwork which is just around the corner near Kew Gardens.

Tikki Patchwork

They have a lovely selection of fabrics and whilst the boyfriend was browsing among the rolls of parchment I was easily able to spend an hour browsing the bolts and fat quarters.

I picked out 1 metre of Kaffe Fasset Paperweight fabric for an A line skirt and a couple of fat quarters and one remnant plus some lengths of ribbon to make a crayon roll for Laurie and couple of tag blankets.

Fabric from Tikki

After shopping I pottered back to TNA to meet the boyfriend for lunch in their lovely cafe and to have a look round the gift shop. In fact we managed to have a really nice day out despite the fact that the boyfriend was actually working.

TNA

It would have been easy to go mad buying postcards reproduced from the archive images but I resisted and just picked up these two for Felix.

TNA postcards

I'm going to start on Laurie's crayon roll as soon as I find some (wax) crayons to put in it. It's been a while since I used them myself and I'm not completely confident of making the pockets the right size if I just go by my own judgment.