Fabric Source Website?

Lily Abello's site is always a good place to start:

Joy has gone to the Dark Side!

--Karen M. who wouldn't be caught dead in one of them things!

I was talking to a friend about that stuff this evening. She once had a ball dress with it in the skirt. Very pretty dress, looked fantastic, felt like she was dancing in knitted barbed wire!

The secret is to have an inner lining to keep it off your legs. Not so useful for square dance dresses, but works for longer dresses.

Oh, this thing was fully lined! But it needed more than lining protecting the legs. Plate armour, possibly.

On 2005-05-25 snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net said: >Newsgroups: alt.sewing >I know somebody posted a website once that had all types of fabric >resources. I can't find it for the life of me. >Usually when I "Google" for a certain type of fabric I come up empty >handed......ie. specifically right now I am trying to find some >crinoline net for making a square dance petticoat. Netting of all >types seems to be particularly difficult to find.....I need the >stiffer kind that you can't get at JoAnns. >Thanks, >joy Mebbe - Last year at Hancock's in Albuquerque I found some stuff they called "mosquito netting" which was closer to white window screen than the net in my tents, but it might work for you. Mind you, I haven't seen a crinoline since the '50's!

(I used the "netting" in water strainers for my roof-harvesting rainwater system, first layer.)

Tom Willmon Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA

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Oh, what a blessing! I am so happy for all of them! Emily

Oh, Joy! How wonderful, I hope the rest of their trip goes well, and they come home with feelings of having "done good".

Yay! Great news! We'll keep those prayers comming that everything else turns up safe and sound! I know what you mean about those instruments being special. I had a pal who had a guitar built for his girlfriend... Didn't look out of the ordinary, but she loved that thing because it 'fitted'. :) Just like us with out sewing kit, I suppose! ;D

...found that horn gorn! I'll take up the tuba instead! (Thank you, Flanders and Swann)

That's just wonderful news!

Tom.....no wonder you havn't seen a petticoat or crinoline since the '50's.........you're up on the roof! Your're goin' to have to get down a little lower!!!

Joy (from the dark side) ... and I >

Try looking for 'dress net'. :)

On 2005-05-27 snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net said: >Newsgroups: alt.sewing >Tom.....no wonder you havn't seen a petticoat or crinoline since the >'50's.........you're up on the roof! Your're goin' to have to get >down a little lower!!! Discression suggests that I leave that line alone. Or at least fetch my 12 foot canoe pole (for those things we won't touch with a 10 foot pole!)

(Britnote: I think you call it "punting", standing up in a boat and pushing it around with a long stick?)

Tom Willmon Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA

No life need be wasted; one can always be a bad example.

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I'm sure it is sewing blasphemy, but there are some things that just don't seem worth the effort... Blue jeans and standard issue ordinary crinolines come to mind (all that gathering!). There's the opportunity cost of another great project, if nothing else. This is only my opinion.

-Charlotte

Naw, it's mine, too. Why waste the time on something that won't show? Put the effort into the cool dress to be worn atop it...I'm sure the Michigan State Fair judges won't mind nor care.

Other items in this category, from my view:

--socks

--shoes

--most gloves

--hoopskirts

--T-shirts

HTH

--Karen M.

Peeling mushrooms, stuffing grapes, making tablecloths and napkins... Must be YEARS since I last used a tablecloth for a meal! I only ever use them for buffets!