Need some tips/ direction for first garb sewing project

[gem]

My favorite material for drawstrings is cotton twill tape, which is what a lot of commercial pants drawstrings are made of. It can be hard to find the all cotton stuff; it's NOT the flat-packaged Wright's twill tape, which is polyester and not good for anything, from what I can tell. I recently found it on rolls/spools at one of our local JoAnn's (you buy the whole spool for about $3), but before that I bought it from ebay.  Or scavenged it from Milord's pj bottoms. 

[Kate XXXXXX]

Polyestr ribbon is really quite strong, but if I want something fine but less slippery than standard poly satin ribbon for things like corset lacing, but more decorative than actual corset lacing, I use narrow grosgrain ribbon.