It's definitely a treasure hunt, but that's what makes it fun. My best finds? A lovely heavy white moire satin in cotton/acetate for my DIL's wedding dress. 60" wide and it was a dollar a yard. I also found some first run reproduction fabric, the lovely smooth sateen hand and straight on grain printing for $2 a yard. I had passed the same thing up at a specialty shop earlier in the day for $11 a yard.
I also haunt my local Pendleton outlet. I dropped the better part of $250 there today, but that was for a total of 64 yards of beautiful Pendleton wool. I was a happy. I walked out with nothing every time I went for the past three or four months, because there wasn't anything worth taking home, at least for me. LuAnn ----- Original Message ----- From: Pierre & Sandy Pettinger<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 9:24 PM Subject: [h-cost] Re: Wal-Mart fabric Well, our last competition costume (for Archon 2006 in St. Louis) was designed at 11 pm at our local Wal-Mart around the fabric they had in stock. It included black/blue/brown chinese brocade (acetate probably), yellow quilting cotton, a variegated brown crushed panne velour, and a stretch yellow patterned ruffle trim on clearance. It also included some of the same crushed panne in burgundy and lining for same, and light yellow sparkle rattail cording. Title: The King in Yellow (from an 1895 horror short story - obligatory historical content ;-) ) Result: Best in Class Master Division It was built in 2.5 weeks after the originally intended project crashed and burned. If you were at CC25 - my costume was what I wore judging the F/SF masquerade. We also buy bolts of the $1/yard stuff for mock-ups, and sometimes find decent generic lining there too. Not our first choice for fabric, but sometimes has "interesting" stuff. Sandy > Walmart carries garment quality fabric? I suppose it does depend > on location. > > Annette T "Those Who Fail To Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It; Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly -- Why They Are Simply Doomed. Achemdro'hm "The Illusion of Historical Fact" -- C.Y. 4971 Andromeda _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com<mailto:h-costume@mail.indra.com> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
