Horrible fabric

I bought some linen from fabric-store.com and can't believe how much I dislike it. It's a beautiful beautiful blue in what they refer to as an all purpose weight linen. My Rotary cutter, with a brand new blade can't cut through it.I used 3 different pairs of scissors that I just had sharpened and the result is 3 pairs of scissors now have to be sharpened again. The seam lines look like I tried to cut with a child's scissors. crooked as can be. DH thinks I should just chuck the whole thing. I said I'll probably try to finish just for practice. It will never be wearable Then again I may chuck the whole thing. Why waste my time. Seems like the ware basket is calling louder every minute; Juno

Reply to
Juno
Loading thread data ...

I bought some linen from fabric-store.com and can't believe how much I dislike it. It's a beautiful beautiful blue in what they refer to as an all purpose weight linen. My Rotary cutter, with a brand new blade can't cut through it.I used 3 different pairs of scissors that I just had sharpened and the result is 3 pairs of scissors now have to be sharpened again. The seam lines look like I tried to cut with a child's scissors. crooked as can be. DH thinks I should just chuck the whole thing. I said I'll probably try to finish just for practice. It will never be wearable Then again I may chuck the whole thing. Why waste my time. Seems like the ware basket is calling louder every minute; Juno

So sorry you wasted your money on what should have been a beautiful cloth for a wonderful piece of clothing! This sounds like something that might have happened to me------finding out that I've goofed in buying it. Barbara in SC

--- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: snipped-for-privacy@netfront.net ---

Reply to
Bobbie Sews More

I'll chalk it up to live and learn. I ordered from them for the first and last time.

Reply to
Juno

Didn't you get a swatch beforehand? And - are you sure that it's really linen? Because, if it isn't I'm sure you can get a refund. What you wrote sounded like they sold you plastic. I can't believe that any real linen can be that damaging to your blades & scissors. Or is nature that tough?

U.

Reply to
Ursula Schrader

I'm not a big fan of 100% linen, so I rarely (never?) use it, although I have a couple of pieces of linen/rayon blend I like. Curious, did you pre-wash it? It sounds like it has some sort of heavy duty sizing. But that's just a guess. So sorry your purchase didn't work out.

Reply to
BEI Design

washed twice

Reply to
Juno

I got swatches in 3 weights,The problem with the swatches is they are so > small you can't do anything but see the colors and get some idea of the > weight. They supposedly sell only linen. > Ordinarily I would try to get my money back but right now I have so > many things more important going on in my life that I'm not up to a > fight. I will contact them but I don't know if I'll do much more than that. > Juno

Reply to
Juno

forgot to say I've used linen/rayon before and loved working on it.

Reply to
Juno

Did you do the burning test? Take the whole amount of fabric and put it on a nice roaring fire, if it goes up in a 'wooosh!' it was synthetic. ;-)

U.

Reply to
Ursula Schrader

Did you prewash the fabric? Or is it just as it came? And what do the edges look like? The only times I've had trouble cutting fabric, the sizing was some sort of PVA mixture, or it was really, really limp and the scissors were mis-adjusted enough that the fabric wanted to slip vertically between the blades instead of being cut. (yes, that was before I learned the "cut with paper" trick).

Drop 'em a note and tell them what troubles you're having... I've never had a problem with fabric from there. It's not the best quality linen I've ever used, but it was good enough to get on with.

Try "resharpening" your scissors by wiping the blades down with alcohol on a bit of cotton fabric. If the problem is a coating or fuzz caught on the edges or between the blades, that usually fixes it, in my experience.

Kay

Reply to
Kay Lancaster

I prewashed it twice, lint galore. I've written to them. No it's not floppy.The selvages have a very tight weave. The more I cut the worse it got and tomorrow I'll try cleaning the blades,right after I go to the store and get some alcohol, unless a little good scotch or cheap vodka will work, No I don't drink cheap stuff I make extracts with it.;) Then again I don't drink good stuff either. Juno

Reply to
Juno

Cheap vodka or whiskey does fine for cleaning blades... you just want to avoid using 1) the good stuff or 2) the sticky stuff like drambuie or creme de menthe on your scissor blades. Since you've seen a lot of fuzz, there may be lint packed into the pivot point -- might need some q-tips in that area to evict all the dust bunnies.

I've had scissors come back from sharpening with so much oil in the pivot area that they become lint magnets. Usually a quick wipedown and then a tiny, tiny drop of sewing machine oil works wonders in that case, too.

Kay

Reply to
Kay Lancaster

Kay Lancaster wrote: [...]

Do you have a special tool for regulating the size of oil drops?

Reply to
BEI Design

Hmmmm if you find it,the tool let me know where I can get one;)

I think I might be able to save the top with careful pinning sewing and trimming with my serger.

Reply to
Juno

What about making a tiny loop of wire or even using the eye of a needle, dip it into oil and apply to the object in question. Perhaps one of those old-fashioned needle threaders might work, too.

Just my 2 cents of thought... U.

Reply to
Ursula Schrader

You don't?

Kay

Reply to
Kay Lancaster

"Kay Lancaster" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@hub.fern.com...

I am truly impressed. I might put that on my birthday wish list. Or buy it myself. ;-)

U.

Reply to
Ursula Schrader

"Kay Lancaster" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@hub.fern.com...

Oh, where did you get that one? I just googled for it and found that there is just one manufacturer, a company named Sommerhoff, not too far from here.

U.

Reply to
Ursula Schrader

:"Kay Lancaster" schrieb im Newsbeitrag :news: snipped-for-privacy@hub.fern.com... :> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:01:34 -0700, BEI Design :> wrote: :>> Kay Lancaster wrote: :>> [...] :>>> I've had scissors come back from sharpening with so much oil :>>> in the pivot area that they become lint magnets. Usually a :>>> quick wipedown and then a tiny, tiny drop of sewing machine :>>> oil works wonders in that case, too. :>>> :>>> Kay :>> :>> Do you have a special tool for regulating the size of oil drops? :>> :>> :> :> You don't? :> :> :>

:Oh, where did you get that one? I just googled for it and found that there :is just one manufacturer, a company named Sommerhoff, not too far from here.

Pen oilers are widely available, and pretty cheap. At least the chinese ones are; if someone is still makng them in Germany or Switzerland, they'd be less cheap.

Reply to
David Scheidt

Reply to
Juno

InspirePoint website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.