Delving in one of Aberkhan's big bins of Ponte Roma I came up with this rosy piece. I had wanted a patterned fabric for a Tilly and the Buttons "Coco" tunic and Tilly recommends Ponte Roma so where could I go wrong? I didn't examine the pattern there and then but imagined there would be a pattern repeat. When I asked for 2 metres the assistant said that would leave less than a metre on the piece and every item in the bins has to be over a metre long. I decided to take the whole piece. Rosy together with another piece of Ponte Roma and some fleece felt heavy as I raced for the bus. Ah back at home with the tiny room rearranged so that I could pull out the flaps on the sewing table, I studied Rosy. First - what a lot of fabric sliding everywhere. I pinned it down with every weighty ornament I could find. Now the pattern confused me. The roses looked similar but it was very hard to find ones that looked exactly the same. I'll cut the long story of
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