The Shopping List
Jan. 5th, 2020 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crockpotcauldronJust got back from the fabric store, and I am proud of myself for not buying silly stuff. I'm so glutted with fabric that I barely glanced at the quilting cotton section. Here is what I got:
White velcro. I need to finish up my long-delayed laundry hamper, and my mom has a curtain tab project. I have an absolute cheese wheel of black velcro, but some things simply require white.
Blue cotton thread. Medium blue is a decent thread for the orange, dark blue, and light blue hexagons, and technically it should be cotton thread since the hexagons are cotton and I'm putting a buttload of work into those tiny whip stitches. Incidentally, I was sorting out my thread boxes yesterday, and burn testing everything that didn't have a label. Cotton burns quickly to gray ash and smells like burning leaves. Polyester frizzles and hardens and smells like burning plastic. Silk, which I apparently own a few spools of, makes this huge blob of charcoal and smells like burning hair. I have a lot of useless thread, and not a lot of useful thread, unfortunately. Lots of suspicious old polyester on Turkish spools, which means they're at least twenty years old. Lots of waxed hand quilting thread because my dad got enthusiastic about a sale and doesn't know much about quilting. Ah well. I've been using up a lot of the shitty polyester hemming fabric for the wash. It's very satisfying to empty a spool.
White felt. I wanted wool felt for the needlebooks, since the lanolin gives it a bit of an edge against rusting, but there are not a lot of options for wool in Florida for some mysterious reason. I got the end of a bolt of polyester felt, and the lady at the cutting counter offered it to me half off as a remnant so now I have more felt than I will ever need in my life. It was cheap, though.
Quilt soap. Didn't want to leave that antique quilt languishing forever, and I have a bit of antique lace that could use a bit of sprucing up. Let's see how well it works.
I also browsed the clearance section a bit, thinking about the hexagon paper punch I saw a while ago. It was no longer there, alas. I must continue to cut my hexagons out of manila folders by hand, like an animal.
White velcro. I need to finish up my long-delayed laundry hamper, and my mom has a curtain tab project. I have an absolute cheese wheel of black velcro, but some things simply require white.
Blue cotton thread. Medium blue is a decent thread for the orange, dark blue, and light blue hexagons, and technically it should be cotton thread since the hexagons are cotton and I'm putting a buttload of work into those tiny whip stitches. Incidentally, I was sorting out my thread boxes yesterday, and burn testing everything that didn't have a label. Cotton burns quickly to gray ash and smells like burning leaves. Polyester frizzles and hardens and smells like burning plastic. Silk, which I apparently own a few spools of, makes this huge blob of charcoal and smells like burning hair. I have a lot of useless thread, and not a lot of useful thread, unfortunately. Lots of suspicious old polyester on Turkish spools, which means they're at least twenty years old. Lots of waxed hand quilting thread because my dad got enthusiastic about a sale and doesn't know much about quilting. Ah well. I've been using up a lot of the shitty polyester hemming fabric for the wash. It's very satisfying to empty a spool.
White felt. I wanted wool felt for the needlebooks, since the lanolin gives it a bit of an edge against rusting, but there are not a lot of options for wool in Florida for some mysterious reason. I got the end of a bolt of polyester felt, and the lady at the cutting counter offered it to me half off as a remnant so now I have more felt than I will ever need in my life. It was cheap, though.
Quilt soap. Didn't want to leave that antique quilt languishing forever, and I have a bit of antique lace that could use a bit of sprucing up. Let's see how well it works.
I also browsed the clearance section a bit, thinking about the hexagon paper punch I saw a while ago. It was no longer there, alas. I must continue to cut my hexagons out of manila folders by hand, like an animal.
