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I am making my sister and her fiance a set of Christmas stockings and a tree skirt as their wedding present. It coordinates with their china pattern, but isn't too "matchy". My mother will embroider their names on the stockings and their last name on the tree skirt. I think it will be very nice.

I want to put a "cuff" of white/ivory/ecru velvet on the stockings. I don't care which of those colors it is, at this point I'd be happy with anything. The name will be embroidered on this cuff. I also want enough to put a heel and a toe of this same fabric on each stocking. Particularly in the case of my sister's stocking, which I made by weaving ribbons and wonder-under fusing them to the silk I've been using throughout, this will provide some visual continuity, as well as a place for the embroidery to show.

I cannot find velvet in any of those white-like colors for the life of me! I found 5 yards of silk velvet on eBay, but I only need .5-1 yard, so buying 5 would be awfully expensive. As Santa is expected to put lots of weight in these things I don't want to use stretch velvet. I've checked all my local stores, fabric.com, eBay, Froogle, and some of the stores that come up when you query on Froogle. I've considered going to chenille upholstery fabric, but I really want to keep with the luxuriousness of the rest of the project and so I'd hoped for the light-manipulating properties of velvet.

Has anyone seen white-like velvet? I'd really like to get this project

*done and over* before I move.

Thanks for any leads!

-Charlotte

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usually carry silk/rayon velvet in creamy white. Thai Silks will have more color selection than Dharma Trading (Dharma's market is mosty fabric artists who will dye their own velvet), but the velvet from Dharma is quite nice (I've got a couple yards in the workroom, dyed peacock blue).

I don't know if Denver Fabrics

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nayy

jenn

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Here are two:

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Description: Inexpensive, generic velvet suitable for a wide variety of uses Color: White Fiber Content:

65% Acetate/35% Nylon

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Code: 14184 Price: $13.98 Description: Rayon Velvet Color: White Fiber Content:

100% Rayon

I have ordered from Denver Fabrics and was very satisfied with quality, price and service. NAYY

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Thanks all! I'm back on track now, thanks to your help!

-Charlotte

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Wow, in May?!?!? Girl, you are ORGANIZED!!!! (I would be finishing that bad boy up about 2 am on The Day.)

(I was going to type something about waiting until after the wedding or closer to The Holidays because ya never know how these modern relationships are going to pan out. But I won't.)

I found some nice white velour-like stuff at Wally World last December. Washable, can take mistakes or abuse better than velvet, etc. etc.

Just a thought.

HTH

--Karen M.

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Their wedding is April 15 of next year! But I'm moving abroad for the year and expect to be doing other things so I want it DONE.

LOL! Aren't weddings fun? I wouldn't marry this man if he were the last man on earth but my sister seems to love him. He's already played the "you'll never see your grandchildren if you don't do things my way" card on my mother. She tells me she just laughed. Sheesh, the wedding is a year away and things are already this keyed up! It is a good thing I'll be out of the country for the lead up .

I'll have the wedding present all DONE so my lack of participation in the drama will hopefully be mitigated in the eyes of those who care by a beautifully wrapped package waiting for the present-opening time. It can go through the drama in my place. Oh, yes, you better believe I'm organized!

-Charlotte

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How about chain stitching on his name? Make it easier to remove when the day comes.

--Karen M.

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-Charlotte

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Oh save some fabric for any future kids stockings. I made some for us when we first got married, then came two kids, no matching stockings for them boohoo

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When my brother moved around alot he only got a post it note in my address book. Would work for this application too.

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Joy

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I thought of that! I did, I did! My mother will be embroidering their names before I close them up, so I didn't want to make loads of possible kids stockings now.

OK, here's my plan - I laminated the stocking shape I drew up and labelled it with *whose* pattern this one is (I'm one of 6 girls, 7 kids in a blended family, I'll be doing this again, and I'll make a different pattern for each). The tree skirt is white fabric with ecru Christmas lace (a tablecloth off eBay!) over it. There is a border of green-grey silk (with a bit of channel quilting for interest), and the whole thing is edged in very rich and heavy green-grey bouillon fringe (matches PERFECTLY!). There is silver trim at the interface of the silk and the white center, and a few smaller motifs of the silver at that edge, as well as an inner ring of silver. All this is based on her china pattern:

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Amherst OK, so his stocking is just going to be the grey-green silk with the velvet cuff on top, and a heel and toe in velvet. Manly. Her stocking, as I mentioned, is made with woven ribbons. It is primarily grey-green but with lots of highlights in silver and gold. Some of the ribbons have organza bits to them so I fused it all to the grey-green silk and the silk shows through in places. She will also have the velvet cuff and heel and toe.

Thus, when kiddos come along, all I have to do is come up with something that coordinates (brocade? crazy quilting? something else?) and pull out the leftover velvet and the pattern. They'll each have something new, but in the same shape, with the same cuff, heel, and toe. They will all be the same but different! I just have to keep the velvet in good shape. I'll fold the nap over on the nap so hopefully it will keep itself from getting crushed.

-Charlotte

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Watch, they'll turn Buddhist on ya. Or Quaker, get rid of those earthly goods. Maybe the china pattern will get smashed against the wall.

HTH

--Karen M. kidding!!

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