All fabric 50 cents! There was a big box at my local thrift store.
It felt like looking into my mother's fabric stash, were she still alive and still keeping a stash. I'm pretty sure I had a blouse made out of this in 1975.
This one really made my heart sing! It looks to me like the old corelle casserole dishes, like a 1970's kitchen. It puts old country and western songs playing in my head.
Here's another one that I'm sure I had a blouse made up of in the early early 70's. Very sheer with those bars of almost entredeux like strips.
This looks home dec, but it is calico (quilt wieght) stuff, maybe with a bit of poly blend.
An added bonus, not vintage but nice quality broadcloth yardage, $4 for about 7 yards of these two grays.
Of course, I feel guilty buying fabric at all, when I have a fairly large stash of stuff from the 80's all the way up to this winter, waiting to be made. Including some cut out but not yet sewn pajama pants projects from christmas! I have completed some, 6 of the requested 9. After my shopping spree I got busy on the almost-last pair, and the only pair I was sewing from fleece.
The fleece was accidental. I bought all the flannel on line and of the two men's patterns, one turned out to be more feminine than I thought would be appreciated. So I used the fleece, with some heavy cotton plaid from my stash for trim.
I quickly started to remember all those tips for working with fleece, like use a stretch stitch (plain zig zag is a good one) and stabilize for button holes. That's what is happening above, any paper that is within reach I rip into size and use. These button holes were not faced and the fleece is stretchy so I used paper above and below the fabric. Works wonderfully, tears off easily. You don't need an expensive tear away or wash away stabilizer unless you are working on your wedding dress or a baby's baptismal gown, any paper is fine. Some other notions/gadgets I used were:
$1. thread snippers from the dollar store. Performance beat the heck out of some I bought from a well known sewing company. Saves time for lots of pesky thread cutting over scissors. The little bottle of fray check there is a favorite for button holes and many other sewing jobs. I've used it for years, good stuff.
The quick turn fabric tube turner! This was a first time for me, it is an inexpensive tool that I just never bought before because I have safety pins and know that trick, right? And even if it was cheap, I can always spend those dollars somewhere else in a fabric store. I've got those cute girl grands, and I figured I might be wanting to turn some spagetti straps. There are a few different methods but I thought it was time to try this one, and I liked it. Invest if you promise 9 people drawstring jamma pants. I did the other 8 pair without, no biggie but from now on, I've got my quick turn tube turner thing.
What's this? One of my longtime favorite notions, a soap sliver for marking fabric. Preferably dried a day or two, then they last for months of marking. Show up very well and duh, wash out. This one was hard milled lavender, has the benefit of great fragrence everytime I pull it out. I do have chalk markers and disappearing markers, but I love the soap best unless I'm working on very light fabric or need a precise fine line, like darts for a Barbie fine. Otherwise, this works as good or better.
Only 2 more to go, and that Mom didn't want them until she moves into the house she's having built. They might end up waiting until next year for sewing. I'm ready for some other projects.
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