I have bought nice 100% cotton quilting fabric for a quilt project in
the past where 2 of the colors of the same exact fabric behaved
beautifully but the third color stretched like mad for no apparent
reason (even after hi heat wash/dry/iron/starching all three colors).
It made piecing the quilt a
... Those are all good Qs, too and... are you *SURE* it's not
a stretch fabric? Many are stealth-stretch like stretch velour,
stretch demin.
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
cinbar...@gmail.com
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nadine Pelikan wrote:
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> --- Everything that Cin asked and...
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> Which patter
--- Everything that Cin asked and...
Which pattern did you use?
Is the stretching only in the bodice?
Did you flat line the bodice?
Did you pipe the neckline, arm holes and waist?
Is the fabric a print or a woven plaid?
Did you make sure that you were on the straight of grain before you cut
Maybe your daughter is a shapeshifter and didn't tell you?
Yours in costumign, Lisa A
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:47:03 -0700 Julie writes:
> I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in
> person to
> all the costumers I know and all are baffled.
>
> I made a dress for my daughter
what Cin says ;) (she saved me the trubble of typing it all!)
==Marjorie Wilser
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Three Toad Press
http://3toad.blogspot.com/
On Oct 8, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Cin wrote:
Some things to think about for your debugging:
Did you put in all the facings, linings & interfacings requi
Some things to think about for your debugging:
Did you put in all the facings, linings & interfacings required?
Did you pre-shrink your cottons with hot water and then in the dryer on zorch?
Does the stretch occur in crossgrain direction?
Is your model wearing period unmentionables and, if corsetti
I've seen this happen with wool and looser weaves. Never cotton quilting
fabric though, unless it's on the bias. That is strange.
I guess all you can do now is line it. (With fabrics that don't hold their
shape, interfacing corrects that but now that you've put the dress
together, that would be a
Washing and drying shrinks fabric. Wearing stretches it back out again.
The shrinking from washing is not a permanent process, especially for
fabric under stress (like tight clothes).
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Julie wrote:
> I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in
I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to
all the costumers I know and all are baffled.
I made a dress for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's.
It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it
in. It stretched some more
