Fabricholism...

[Wickedvox]

you know you have fabricholism when your niece wants to make a new set of garb and you pull out the swatch box and she picks all her fabrics out of your stash!!!!

Whoa. No argument there! Lucky niece!

[LadyShadow]

Wow. I need an Aunt like you. Well, I just need a stash like that as well.

[LadyStitch]

Last Thursday I went into Joanns thinking it was going to cost me an arm and a leg because there was no sales on and I was low on useable coupons.  I had to get enough Cotton fabric for 8 greek tunics (At least 3 yards each) and each a different color.
I got blessed because a clerk was going off duty for the weekend and she had a handfull of coupons that customers didn't want, and each had a different barcode on it.  We are talking about 12 different 40-50% off coupons!  I walked out of there with 200 worth of fabric for only $120!  Then the next day I had to go to a different one because the original one didn't have what I needed for a couple characters.  While there I still had 3 left over 50 off coupons.  I used 2 and gave 1 to another girl who was panicing because she didn't realize that the fabric she picked out was $20 a yard , and not on sale.  She wasn't sure if she could afford it now.  Made her day.  When she asked why I gave it to her.  I told her simple, "Pay it forward to someone else, and it never hurts to be kind and share the wealth." 

[gem]

WTG, Lady S, you wicked enabler! 

I met a needlework buddy for lunch and framing lessons at Hobby Lobby yesterday afternoon, and she gave me an armload of beautiful royal blue stretch velvet that she had bought for a friend's wedding that never happened. It's a really nice quality, and there is at least 4 yards of it. Eventually it might want to be a LOTR elf gown/robe, but first it's going into stash to wait until I make the Caravaggio gown, so it can be part of the background for the photo shoot! Hee!  (We won't even discuss the wacky wagonwheel chair we also saw at HL that keeps insinuating that it needs to be part of said photo shoot, as well.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

With 2 commissions already on the schedule for Spring 2012, I will be in the hunt  for the perfect Navy Blue Cotton Brocade for a Venetian Gown ensemble and Doublet, as well as  Black Brocade for a Tudor Gown ensemble.

Anyone care to enable me?

[gem]

Lady K, the cotton-blend damask I'm using for the purple kirtle came from these JC Penney tablecloths. It's been *lovely* to work with. I'm not sure if the blue is exactly navy, though.

[LadyStitch]

Father's Day weekend there are some major 50 % off coupons at Joanns. It is 50 off any regular priced Item in the store. For extra money while on maternity leave I am planning on making my famous Santa hats.   For years the PP was wanting a good quality velvet and fun santa hat.  I made him one a year ago.  Since them every christmas people keep asking for them.  They are realtivy simple to make, but coveted by those who see them.  (The PP keeps getting teased by a lady at the fabric store about being the santa hat guy. )  I'm thinking stocking up on Various colors of velvet (Red, green, blue and black) and the white fur and pom poms.  Our local Joanns will let us use coupons on ordered trims.  I'm hoping I can order a spool of the fur that way.
I have turned into such a coupon snob. If can't use a coupon on it, I don't need it. 

Lady K, the PP saw a beautiful cotton poly blend brocade at Joann's this past weekend.  If he wasn't already decked out in his 'Pinkness' he would have wanted a doublet from it.  Might be worth a look see. 

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

LS

Being the Venetian gown is for a Texas client, I have to stay away from any Poly blend fabrics. Even in late May, the day temps can get well into the 90's at Scarby. We were there 2 years ago for the last weekend. While bearable in our garb, it was plenty warm.

I have plenty of time between now and February when I get going on those commissions. There will be plenty of opportunities to go over to SR Harris not far from where my daughter lives.

[Cofeeguru]

Lady K, I just saw some lovely navy brocade at Mill End by me in B'ville.  I'd be glad to double check the fabric content next time I'm there and PM pics to you. And they have coupons.  Muahahahahahaha. 

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

I have aMil End here in Rochester. I will have to get out that way to check it out.

[Cofeeguru]

There's a mill end in Rochester??? I'll have to hunt it down next time I'm with my DH when he's delivering down there!

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

THat would be great. PM me. Perhaps we could go together. Exchange notes, etc.

[Cofeeguru]

I'll make sure to do so!

[jackrocks]

Ive been working on organizing my sewing space in the basement, and I recently lost the dresser I used to keep some material as my boys needed for their bedroom....I made a commitment to myself to not buy any more material until I had used up a good portion of the overabundance of material I already have.

However......

My poor, widowed MIL is cleaning and organizing her own home, and has found she has 5 large totes filled to overflowing with material she doesnt plan to use. Its taking up space in her home, she doesnt know what to do with it, and what kind of daughter in law would I be if I just left it there, invading her home, stopping her from making room to take care of her disabled sister and elderly father? I ask you, what would you do? I feel I have to take it, just so my conscience is clear.


And I mean, techinically, Im NOT buying any of it, so Im still keeping my promise to myself.

[gem]

All right, gentlefolk & enablers, help me out here.

I have fallen in love with some fabric at Hobby Lobby, and can't think of an application for it. It's a printed cotton canvas with a sort of medallion design, in shades of black, rust, and gold.  It's very similar to this, only with rust instead of purple/grey:




(I've actually been looking at one that was predominantly rust, on clearance for $5/yard... but today I found the black, in the regular section for $9/yard. I'm waiting for a coupon if I go back for it at all.)

I've been staring at it for weeks, and it's screaming at me to bring it home. But what would I make with it? It's very obviously a print and not a woven design, so I'm having trouble picturing it as Fairwear. I don't really want or need another corset, and I'm not sure what else I'd use canvas as a fashion fabric layer for!

Ideas? I need at least the semblance of a plan before I succumb!