Liquid Sequins

I saw a costume described as being decorated with "liquid sequins." Does anyone know what it actually is and where to get it. It looked like it must be some sort of shiny material that resembed sequins...but I really don't know for sure. Joy

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Bridal/prom at your local TSWLTH (Telegraph and 18 Mile? Nice store!) It's a meshy knit with shiny circles affixed to it, like sequins but not sewn on. They don't fall off because they're part of the material, and it's easier to sew than sequined fabric. Once you see it, this description will become very clear!

Oh! I might have something like that on (found at a thrift) in the lead photo on my Maison Bleue site.

HTH

--Karen D.

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The Store We Love To Hate, aka Joann's Craft and Fabrics. I'm hitting there in 58 minutes and 30 seconds. Big sale today which means big lines and grumpy employees. You can't beat their prices on some things, but most days, the store is dirty, poorly organized/stocked, and a few employees could use some customer etiquette lessons. Thus, TSWLTH.

-j

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julia

I haven't the foggiest, but in the very late fifties, someone marketed "Liquid Embroidery" -- fabric paint in toothpaste tubes, dispensed through something like the business end of a ball-point pen. It was rather poor as an imitation of embroidery, but an excellent and easy way to maintain an autograph tablecloth.

I still have my autograph tablecloth -- which is done entirely in embroidery floss -- but we no longer have people to dinner, so I haven't added any signatures in this millennium. I used to wonder what the rule would be if I ever had someone famous to dinner. The rule of etiquette for such a situation is "Treat him like everyone else, and don't ask for his autograph" -- but everyone else is asked to sign the tablecloth . . .

Joy Beeson

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Nope, they don't break off, they don't gum up the needle, they just sit there. Uniform sized.

Is there not a fabric store on Telegraph near Long Lake? I might have the mile road wrong.

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Hello Joy,

I like your signature table cloth idea. What type of fabric is best to use? I think it would be a really cute idea for grandchildren to write something on their birthdays or special holidays and then look back at the changes in their writing and thoughts. I don't have grandchildren, yet, so I'll stash away the idea for the future. Thanks.

Liz

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Ward

Mom used muslin sheeting, because it came wide enough to fit the table. (She always used the autograph cloth for holiday dinners, because it was the only one big enough for the kitchen table when it was stretched out to seat twelve.) I used osnaburg because it was handy -- osnaburg was slightly finer and a great deal more durable than it is now.

Anything washable that's opaque and quite plain should work.

Almost all fabrics are wide enough to make tablecloths these days, but they often lack selvages. (In reading a textile dictionary on line, I learned that they are woven even wider than that, and slit into strips after weaving. And I thought it was just because they blow the weft through instead of using a shuttle!) Sometimes you get a "tuck" selvage, in which the ends of the blown weft are tucked back in to make a sheet-style selvage, with a slightly fuzzy streak on the wrong side where the tucked ends poke out. Sometimes tuck selvages are quite good, sometimes they are fuzzy on both sides, sometimes there is a porous streak at the ends of the tucked ends.

White linen is easy to get stains out of, often has a real selvage, and is fairly easy to come by these days -- nothing but crash was available when I started housekeeping -- but you have to watch out for spun lint. Linen-spinning equipment is expensive, but if you grind flax fibers, they can be spun on the cotton-spinning equipment you already have. It can be disconcerting if you use linen for something that is subject to hard wear and then find it shedding like a cat. (Ah, well, I have lots of scraps to make patches with. I'll make the seat double when I have to replace it.) Medium-weight linen would probably be the easiest to work with.

I embroidered dates in counted cross stitch around the edges of the table, then embroidered the names in the same color as the date until I embroidered another one. The last three parties I threw were each embroidered in a different color.

(I've just been editing my 1995 diary, where I mention the last party.)

[snipped: account of embroidering last year's names just in time to wash the cloth for this year's New Year's Day Breakfast Ride (which started at 1:00 pm).]

Joy Beeson

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joy beeson

Joy do you mean that only one person came to your party? How awful....

Michelle Giordano

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Doug&Michelle

Thanks for the fabric tip. I'll look around for some table cloth fabric that will accept, and hold, the Sharpie pen ink.

Liz

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Ward

There are two varieties of mock sequin fabric. One has meshier (is that even a word?), less stretchy background fabric - you'd need to line it to be decent - and it is indeed guilty of all of the above. There's another variety with smaller "sequins" on a denser, smoother, stretchier fabric that's not bad at all to work with.

Kathleen

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I finally hit the store at Long Lake and Telegraph when I read your message and found my sale flyer.....got there 1 hour before closing! Thanks for the "heads up." Luckily my daughter helped me find what we needed for my brothers annual "birthday outfit." Will get that done this week thanks to you and my great cost savings!! Joy....thanks for the idea on the tablecloth. That's a great idea. Joy in Michigan

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Joy Hardie

Not only that, my doctor had forbidden me to take part, so he had to ride around the block all alone. When he came back, he said the roads were horrible -- which is why nobody else came. Also, if I recall correctly, earlier entries in the diary said that I'd forgotten to send out the invitations.

The New Year's Day Breakfast Ride (roll-out at one in the afternoon) was a club event -- I used to be the newsletter editor, and the December issue went out two weeks early because of the election ballot, and there wasn't any January issue, which meant that I had to have the details of the New Year's Day Ride in October -- the only way I could get the announcement that early was to lead the ride myself. When I quit editing, I quit thinking so far in advance, and missed the deadline for putting the announcement in the newsletter.

With nasty roads and no invitations, one guest was doing pretty well. The two of us had a nice visit, and DH grooved on having most of a gallon of whole-milk cocoa in the fridge. But there was always cocoa left over, even the year we had an anomalous warm spell and a dozen people showed up, including an entire cross-country ski expedition, if I recall correctly. Which reminds me of the time a cross-country ski trip I'd planned to take got rained out, but that is a three-page story, and I don't think my account of it mentioned sewing in any way. (The path we chose had been under a frozen river a few days before.)

Joy Beeson

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