Getting fed up with living in the Highlands! Shopping is not fun!

aliasojo

All I want, is a red table runner that measures 240cm long. Can I get one? Nope, can I heck!

I found one or two online that are a little shorter that might do at a push but even then I can't see what shade of red they are iyswim.

AND one place wants £8.50 to send it to the Highlands. It's a light piece of cotton material for crying out loud! You could tie it to the back of a pidgeon, it's so light! How can they justify that?!

*sigh* any ideas where else I could look? I kinda need it asap.

Kittendreich

Could you make one? Then you could buy the right length of fabric. Still have the hassle of getting it shipped to the Highlands, but they might send you a swatch to allow you to check the colour before buying it....but then that will take time if you are in a rush.

EBay?

aliasojo

Ooooh noooo, crafty doings are not my forte. Looked on ebay last night but couldn't see what I was after.

Debenhams do a 'right colour' red but only for a much smaller table. Next do one that is 220cm long but it looks a bit daft as it literally *just' hangs over the end of the table and no more.

WestonDave

John Lewis do this one - http://www.johnlewis.com/108324/Style.aspx - to my eyes its a bit bright and its still only 230cm.

Amazon have this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mistral-Uniline-Break-Table-Runner/dp/B002KKCP2O

ema_o

Just an idea, but there are curtain companies online (and on ebay) that do made to measure - could you contact someone like this and see if they could make you one?

Or do you know anyone with a sewing machine that might do it in exchange for a bottle of wine or something?!

tasha-debt

Buy two of the debenhams ones and use bondaweb(the fabric irion glue) to glue them together.
x

aliasojo

WestonDave wrote: »

Amazon have this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mistral-Uniline-Break-Table-Runner/dp/B002KKCP2O

Length etc is fine but it looks a wine colour on my screen. :undecided

ema_o wrote: »

Just an idea, but there are curtain companies online (and on ebay) that do made to measure - could you contact someone like this and see if they could make you one?

Or do you know anyone with a sewing machine that might do it in exchange for a bottle of wine or something?!

It was an online made to measure place that wanted £8.50 to deliver. The runner itself cost a shade less than that. (Actually I might phone them and ask them to send it Royal Mail and give them stick for trying to charge too much.

Don't know anyone handy.

tasha-debt wrote: »

Buy two of the debenhams ones and use bondaweb(the fabric irion glue) to glue them together.
x

I did actually think about that but I'm attempting a 'posh' table look and just don't think that would work.

Thanks all. :beer:

SailorSam

Getting away from things like table clothes for a minute.
go and have a look out of the window; what do you see ?
go out of your front door early in the morning, can you hear the birds ? can you smell the fresh air ?
Would you really swop that to come and live i a crowded city, all for the sake of a tablecloth.

aliasojo

Btw...it's not a tablecloth. It's a runner. Much posher you know. :D

I don't see green fields and chirping birds of a morning, I hear next door coughing his guts up and the alarm going off on the shop across the way.

Although we do have a tame seagull that literally chaps on our back door every morning for his breakkie. I guess I wouldn't have that in a city. :rotfl:

plumpmouse

My heart sank when I read your title!

We are hoping to move up to Caithness soon and I thought oh no what could be wrong with living in the highlands!

Had a quick look round but can't find any the right size.

Have you looked at ebay?

slightlyconfused1

Hi

Just wanted to say I empathise completely. I live in the middle of the Cairngorms National Park. Mostly I love it but sometimes it all gets a bit much ...

If you are really stuck for a runner how about a (cheap) red curtain? One glorious day when I was trying to sell my last house and the baby had just spilled juice all over the middle of my beautiful white table cloth I folded a thin curtain in half (cut off the tab tops though) and created a runner "artfully" placed over the stain. I received lots of comments on how well I had dressed my room and how everything blended.