Thursday 9 September 2010

London Day #2

I am finding it quite hard to write these posts. I want to write about what a great time I had meeting people from the internet, but do not want to write anything that makes anyone uncomfortable.
Elizabeth, my gracious host for example, seems happy to be exposed as a nefarious mastermind with an evil laugh, as she wrote this in response to my last London post.

"I sound rather like a nefarious mastermind from your blog. Excellent. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha."

This relieves my mind considerably. I now feel completly free to reveal her plans for us on day 2. Be warned, it is a terrible story, you may be shocked and amazed.

Ruthie and I arrived at Elizabeth's after sundry husbands and children had been gently encouraged to be elsewhere (no witnesses were needed). In the way of all masterminds, only mild encouragement occurred before the dastardly machines came out, with Elizabeth detailing her plans for each exotic and peculiar device.

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Evidence of her previous plots was presented. Her skills and work, nefarious as they might be, are considerable.



To be honest, I think there was something peculiar in the cups of tea we drank, because I cannot remember if we sewed discrete tote bags to identify Elizabeth's minions to those in the know, before or after we tried on all of the clothes in Elizabeth's wardrobe. Here Elizabeth's possible superpowers were exposed. There are trousers in Elizabeth's wardrobe that fit me perfectly - something that has NEVER happened before. Scary.
How did I end up with Elizabeth's blouse in my suitcase? How did Ruthie know to bring the materials for the bags -with tracking microchips I presume? I suspect there is a deeply held plot out there somewhere.

At one point, Elizabeth had claimed that we would take part in an excursion - no doubt with evil intent - to an excellent trim and notions shop, which closed at 4.
Through our incredible chatting powers, Ruthie and I managed to delay this excursion until the window had passed. The owners of the trimming shop should be grateful.
Little did Elizabeth know that Ruthie and I had been in collusion (Remember, I had overpowered Ruthie already and stunned her with excess wool exposure, so she was putty in my hands). There was a 0.6mm crochet hook that had evaded my searches at Knit Nation, but was reportedly at Loop, in Islington, with much later closing hours. After various threats and tortures, Ruthie and Elizabeth agreed to accompany me there. I did have some trouble dragging them away from vintage clothing shops etc, but my nefariousness being even greater than Elizabeth's, eventually I had them trapped exactly where I wanted them.
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See the looks of horror on their faces?
Unfortunately, I did not have things all my own way. I was foiled in my crochet hook quest, and this induced such weakness (albeit temporary), that Elizabeth was able to drag us back to her flat to eat home made pizza.
She had also recruited her husband to make champagne cocktails.
The combined efforts were shockingly effective.
Hen arrived once we were already weakened, but even her strength was insufficient to resist the rest of Elizabeth's plot.
Here we are trapped on Elizabeth's couch, listening helplessly to her plans to take over the world with vintage Singer sewing machines.
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You should see what was in store for us the next day.
I will write about it later - if I can face it.

7 comments:

Carol said...

I'm coming with you next time!

Anonymous said...

It's too bad no one was around to take pictures of us! The shared sewing session was the most fun I had! Karen, I will have her readers know, has Mad Sewing Skills! I could only watch in awe as she blithely chatted while hand rolling a seam. Her tote bag had french seams! French seams, readers! I assure you I copied her every stitch. When she held a match to the handle webbing, so did I. I tried to give her the featherweight, but she revealed that it had a (scary to me) intermittent electrical fault, so didn't take it.

Sewing Geek said...

I can tell by the look on everyone's face in the last picture that everyone was having a horrible time! Lucky you!

SewRuthie said...

Yes the quality of the tote bags varied considerably it must be said! The idea was that they would have been little gifts for the others but I didn't plan ahead enough and instead took all the bits down as 'make your own tote bag kits' which actually was a whole lot more fun. I've never sewn on vintage machines before and that was great fun!

Anonymous said...

I would not call her nefarious, but Elizabeth's plans for world domination are undeniable. It looks like you had a great time.

Suit Yourself Couture said...

How fun for all of you to meet up and share your lives and loves.

Sharon said...

What a lovely time you all had and yes can I come along next time?