Material,material !!!!

A lot of you that shop at Hancock's may know, it is closing. In 3 weeks, I went to 3 different stores and this is what I got. Talk about fabric. As if I didn't have enough already..

Felting wool.

Now this is something totally new to me,,, I felted wool....... 

I have seen and read about it being done,, but never tried it.. I was cleaning out a storage room, and found some wool I had purchased from Fabric.com,, 3 years ago,, I know,, I am slow,,, uhem,, so slow in fact I forgot whether I had pre-washed it or not,,, well I obviously hadn't ,, cause this is what happened....

I  washed it in cool,, and dried it,,,a side view,, see how thick it is, now this is just from the washer,, the piece on top is before,, the one on bottom is after it was washed,, I was going to take a pic after it came out of the dryer,, but drying it didn't make any more changes....

It literally fluffs the material up,, 

 Trying to get a good picture, sometimes you need to take several,, sometimes you even need to post several,,, ha...

 I also isn't as shiny, now I could have dry cleaned it and kept the flat shiny look,, but i don't dry clean my clothes hardly at all,, so I pre-wash and dry everything the way I am going to use it after I make it,,

This was so much fun,, I think it is nice when you read or see something in blog land that you would like to do,,but are maybe afraid to try,, then you say what the heck and do it anyway,, 

So now I can say I have felted wool.....

I have 4 yards each of the green and blue,, now what to do with them,,, that is for a later post... he he....

Behind, behind....

 I was looking through my computer at pix I was supposed to put on my blog,, I am bad,, really bad,, I take pix thinking I am going to post them, then they sit on my computer forever.... ok for instance... both of these I have had since August 2011,, the ones from Fabric.com. are ITY,, my 1st purchase of this type of fabric,, and,, ( this isn't so hard to believe) I still have to make them up.... the one from GF,, is a very lightweight cotton knit,, somewhat sheer,, should be fun to work with,,

From Fabric.com

From Gorgeous Fabrics...

I see other things on there as well,, project, embroidery,, more,, more,, and still MORE fabric,, hopefully I will get to it soon,, but don't hold your breath....

New fabric

My recent purchase from Fabric.com,, I haven't gotten anything from there is so long I was having withdrawls.. lol.. problem fixed though,,

On the left, is 2 yds of olive, right is 6 yds gray, and that bundle on the bottom, 10 yds of black,, I took advantage of this sale,, a $1.99 sale on twill, light weight twill at that,, the comments said it was light enough for tops... they weren't kidding,, I am used to skirt or jacket weight, this stuff is light,, I was originally wanting to make jean type skirts out of it,, may have to rethink it now, have to look through my pattern stash to see what I come up with, shouldn't be too hard,, I have lots of gored skirt patterns I think will be great on,,,

New fabric

I got a new shipment of fabric from Fabric.com. I ordered it on Mon. night and it got here Thurs. wow that was fast, 2 days to ship?

The yellow and blue are cotton knit, and the bottom 2 are stretch poplin, with lycra,, I was concerned because Fabric.com's info on the poplin was med weight, but I have 2 shirts I ordered from Chadwicks several years ago, that is the same weight at these, and I love the Chadwicks shirts. So this material will work great..

Spring er, Fall cleaning,,

This is SOME of my spring fabric,,,plastic bins are about 14.5 gallons each,,and i still have enough to fill another one,, i think,,,,