Simplicity 2981 again
I am three-quarters of the way through the next version of The Dress. This time in black polyester fabric I bought for $5 a metre.
Now, sewing buddies – SPOT THE PROBLEM IN THAT SENTENCE.
Woven polyester fabric. Very PRETTY woven polyester fabric, black with little white spots. At a price I couldn’t resist.
Now, what are the three words we need to remember about polyester fabric, if I should EVER EVER EVER attempt to make anything else from this hellish material?
POLYESTER DOESN’T EASE.
(Also, it frays if you so much as look at it wrong. Into teeny weeny very pretty thread snarls that look just like guinea feathers, except are nowhere near as useful.)
(OMG! Just found a shop I could spend most of a lotto win at – Millinery Suppliers! WOOOOOOT! *wanders off singing “heaven… I’m in heaven…*)
AHEM! Back to the business at hand: I bought the fabric from HELL. Straight from Stan’s loom , I tell ya!
Which is why, at 7 pm on Sunday night, I’m just starting to cut out version THREE, in cotton (oh cotton, how I love you!). Remember I want to wear this on TUESDAY. And I have a hat to trim , too. Last time it took about 2 hours to cut (but that was horrible slippery fabric – oh yeah, I forgot to mention – polyester’s SLIPPERY! and I had to mark every piece carefully with right and wrong side, because there was a subtle but noticeable difference…)
Right. Back to it! Just promise me, dear readers, PROMISE ME, that if I so much as LOOK at el cheapo polyester woven fabric again, you will take me by the hand and repeat those three words: Polyester. Doesn’t. EASE!!
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Caity – remember ‘Polyester doesn’t ease!’ and BTW , you know that pretty red bracelet you bought … it has a skeleton and a lady beetle on it….
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Just think of your sense of accomplishment though, when you're finished. In time for the Melbourne Cup???
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