#fabric.com

I made my boyfriend a Miles Morales Button Down shirt for our 6 year anniversary ❤️😊

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Now that it’s autumn, I might use this rayon twill for this beach dress. I missed our beach trip this year, but you can’t go wrong with a simple wrap and a patch pocket. I don’t recall why or when I bought this rayon, but I have a lot of it: 4 1/2 yards of 56″ wide. It’s almost twice as much as I need for the dress.

This is a reproduction pattern from a 1940′s beachwear set, Vogue 5108. I’ve made another reproduction from this company and it worked nicely. I made a few mistakes with it, but not because the pattern was lacking. There were some interesting construction quirks--some steps where I felt like “this is not how a modern pattern would do this”--but I’m not necessarily sophisticated enough to explain it.

5108 is more simple than the other one I made (McCall 3603). Other than the hemming, it should not take too long.

If I’m feeling adventurous, I might make the halter and shorts, too. I might have enough disconium left for the halter.

I posted it publicly and then pulled it, since my answer was just “i think it ate your ask, are you talking about the wish app?” xD

I don’t use wish and probably never will (not for any good reason, just because the pandora advertisements annoy me so much), but if you’re confident that the lace they’re going to send you is the same that’s in the pictures, and you can make sure that you know what size it is, sounds like a good deal. Guess how many times I’ve bought lace that I thought was one size and found out it was really big/really small.

Also, if you’re buying lace online, and you’re looking to buy in bulk, you can usually get better than $2/yd for venise lace at dedicated lace and trim sellers. However, $2 isn’t anywhere near overpriced, and if it looks good, go for it!

I get a lot of my fabric from Fabric.com, and they used to have free shipping if you spent over $35, well now they’ve changed that to $50. 

Which sucks ‘cause sometimes I only want a couple yards, and it’s not worth it to pay the $5 in shipping, especially when the fabric is only $5 a yard.

But I found this out last year that Fabric.com sells most of their stuff on Amazon, and typically you can purchase it with free shipping.

Haptic Labs constellation quilt

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RIP Fabric.com #sewing #fabric #fabricdotcom #rip #whatthefabric

So, apparently with little warning, the once ubiquitous Fabric.com is no more. Visitors to the homepage are now greeted with the following: It’s a bit crazy because I just placed an order on a bit of a whim at the start of the month to get a few things to pair with the fabrics I bought in New York. Apparently that was, unbeknownst to me at the time, my last order from the website. I will say,…