I want to make myself a poncho/shawl to wear while I'm traveling -- I'm headed to Phoenix in January for a couple weeks with my MIL (we have quilt-making plans, and quilt shop shopping plans, and much talking and sharing plans). I found a perfect, almost NO-SEWING pattern and it calls for 2.5 yards of 60" wide fleece fabric. Well, I don't want fleece. I want some kind of wool. Not the fuzzy, thick, sweaty kind but something drapy and soft. So I'm shopping online and OMG the prices for wool. Except at Fabric.com where it's all pretty reasonable. Now the question, what kind of wool do I want? I have zero experience sewing with wool. Maybe the sweater wool? Or the wool double knit? Or ... I know the suiting is probably too slick for what I want.
Anybody got ideas? Kate, I'm hoping you wade in. You have such gorgeous sewing sense and I wish you were my neighbor. I'd sit in your kitchen and not say a word, just absorb a tiny bit maybe of your genius for making costumes.
Sunny