What on earth do I do with this?

Assuming it is all cotton except for the 5% stretchy part. Wash it again just to make sure! No reason why you couldn't use this as the back of a quilt, if you are very very careful with basting and quilt rather closely. Obviously you would have to make sure it didn't stretch while basting. But it has enough body and it isn't slithery, so it should work OK. Would look nice on a casual couch quilt or child's quilt. Roberta in D, never look a gift fabric in the whatever (as long as it's cotton)

"John" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

Send it to our Jill, who will take anything and everything. She makes quilts for homeless, abused, abandoned animals. Last year, she made

1500.........

Patti in Seattle

Very comfortable trousers - his and hers. If you have some left over after this, you could make matching, lined waistcoats (vests), with machine embroidery decoration - or even some appliqué!

There you go ... . In message , John writes

Skirts, to follow on from the trousers. Stretch wovens make up into really comfortable trousers and skirts. I've been making my own skirts and trousers recently and I've been using various sorts of stretch wovens and they've been very comfortable. Just make sure the stretch goes round the body, not up and down.

Patti, I don't know Jill's e-mail address. If you know it, send her an e-mail and have her send me the contact information and if she would like to have it. Thanks

John

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:55:09 -0500, John wrote (in article ):

How much stretch? I'm guessing it could make a very comfortable shirt. I know I've seen woven shirts and pants in department stores made of stretch wovens. Very nice for the days when I'm not feeling to "skinny."

Maureen

I threatened to make a stretch leisure suit and my wife almost spit her coffee across the breakfast table at me, and she couldn't stop laughing. I am definitely NOT the leisure suit kind of guy. Everything I own is 100 percent cotton or wool. The one exception is bicycle clothing. Lycra is the only exception I make, and I have started to make cotton and wool cycling clothes to eliminate that exception. I have a long range goal of producing all of the clothes I wear. I am going to learn to knit this winter, so I can make myself some Merino wool socks and then I plan to get a cover-stitch machine after the first of the year so that I can sew jersey t-shirts. I then can make cotton boxer briefs and with the addition of pants and shirt and jacket, I will have an outfit that is 100 percent custom made by me. I will probably be so stressed out from the endeavor that they will have to bury me in it. But, I will be a rather nattily dressed corpse.

John

Here's Jill's contact information. Critter Comforts: Quilts for Homeless Animals

I don't think you've mentioned: Did your wife survive the nurse care you provided and do you have windows yet? Winter will come. Polly

Animals

I don't think you've mentioned: Did your wife survive the nurse> care you provided and do you have windows yet? Winter will come. Polly>

Thanks for the link. I have a bunch of drapery leavings and other stuff that I can put in the box and ship it out to her. My wife survived the nurse nice care and is on the road to recovery. The windows are installed with only a few problems which they are taking care of. Now we can open the windows without a crowbar and block of wood. The old windows were first generation vinyl windows from 1971 or so and had lived a long and until recently useful life. It was time for a change of appearance also. Slider windows on a Victorian house brings a Citation from the style police. Thankfully I am now in full compliance with all the window style laws.

John

Marvellous!

I just have to tell a story here: On the old TV programme 'The Good Life' (which some of you might have seen), Tom and Barbara were trying to do everything from 'the land' = their garden. They were given some fleeces, as I recall, and Barbara spun this into wool yarn. This was then dyed with dye made from nettles - a very bright green! She then wove this bright green wool yarn into cloth, and made Tom a suit. It was quite well made; but, of course, looked hysterical. It was somewhat of the texture of Harris tweed! They went to some function (I've forgotten what) and Tom wore his hand made suit. He wore a cream trench coat over it, but, when he had to remove the coat, the reactions of those around were predictable >gg< I'm sorry if I'm spoiling the story by bad telling, but it really was very, very funny. So, John, no dyeing with nettles (or other garden weeds perhaps?)! . In message , John writes

Is it really stretchy? I've seen a lot of ready-to-wear that has a very small amount of lycra in it -- maybe 5%, just enough to give it a little "give" when wearing. If that is what it is, you could use it for a shirt or two.

Julia > Here is a question for all you knowledgeable folks. Somebody gave me

Well, maybe hotpants for the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders is a bit out of line. However hotpants for the Penguins ice girls would be OK, especially since some of the ice girls are ice boys. Lord knows they could use some costumeing help, at least as of a few years ago. Since you are an upright married man, I will make the sacrifice and come down and measure all those fine looking bods for you. There are an awful lot of them so those hotpants will have to be very tiny....

NightMist no hotpants for Iceberg

If Jill doesn't want it, I would welcome it gladly....I need to remake some of my blouses (yes, store bought one, with a bit of stretch). Just thought I'd throw that one out for you to consider as well

Larisa

Howdy!

Christo.

You could do a short version of Running Fence or Wrapped Walkway Look at that first pic in Umbrellas: there's your stretch blue chambray right there! Or a Gate, a simple Gate, in this blue instead of orange: Set it in your backyard; charge a small admission fee that signals "we got somethin' worth seein'!" And you can never have too much $ for quilting stash.

R/Sandy-- watching Christo & JeanClaude (& John?) " creating an invitational inner space"

ROFLOL! John, you're too funny -- and it's a good thing I wasn't drinking my coffee when I read this, or I'd have been spewing it all over my computer!

Howdy!

You have a rotary cutter... you can cut that chambray into very thin strips, same width as your yarn (and some yarn has little nubs & knots & flurbs in it, more texture), and knit yourself a blue chambray something. Gonna' have to be open-casket so we can see your nattily-dressed self, John.

R/Sandy--still in Help Mode p.s. I prefer that "eyelash" yarn, myself ...

I loved that show and remember the episode, it was a hoot! We used to get it on our PBS channel in Seattle.

Val

Jill at Critter comforts has contacted me and I am going to ship the stuff off to her. I contacted our local humane society and offered to do what Jill does for the dogs and they said, "They didn't want to bother with beds for the dogs as that would be too much trouble cleaning the cages out". Really puts the humane in humane society. I assume that is a local decision as the one we have is very understaffed and underfunded. Oh well, Jill can do the good deed.

John