"How Much Fabric?"
I can hear the girl behind the cutting counter asking me, again , as I stand there on the other side, holding the queue behind me up (sorry ladies), feeling guilty for actually loving yet another piece of fabric that I have no immediate use for. My usual answer to this question is ..."I have no idea but I just have to have it! So cut me off about ..." and the guesstimate begins. Then I panic What if I haven't asked for enough??? So I add on an extra 20cm just in case. And another 10cm to allow for shrinkage/error in my future unplanned sew-up. It won't kill me to buy that little bit extra. And it is soooo close to the meterage that I will just round it up - naturally thinking of the poor girl cutting. Why, it must be easier for her to measure out 2 metres of fabric instead of 1.8! What a considerate customer I am... Well, without a doubt, I buy too much. But then not enough. In other words, I never have an idea on how much to buy when I see fa...