Cheap stash!

Posted by Kate XXXXXX on April 19, 2009, 1:20 pm

I had one of those cold calls yesterday, from a charity... This was a
little different! Small local charity that helps with vet bills for
those in difficulty. The lady rang me up because after a house tidy-up,
they had this fabric they wanted to sell to help make some money for the
bills. Could I use it?

Well, I dunno, do I, not without looking at it... So over she came with
4 large carrier bags of fabric. She took one back, with stuff I can't
use at all, but the rest is:

3 yards of 54" wide tweed in beige, cocoa brown and airforce blue...
Old fashioned, but rather nice. I have a couple of Vintage Vogue
patterns for suits and coats that will make up nicely in this.

One 60" wide by 56" long chunk of plain brown hairy tweed. Reeks of
Saxon costume type thing...

4 yards of 35" wide (wool mix?) forrest green crepe with cream coloured
leafy feathery small print... Very 70's, but rather nice. I have a
nice wartime Utility frock pattern that this will make up very nicely...

One offcut of a meter of 36" wide satin lining (heavy duty - will make a
nice waistcoat lining & back)

4 yards of 36" wide (wool mix?) crepe in chocolate brown with a small
dot print arranged in squares... Another very 70's print, but quite
nice. Another nice Vintage pattern for this, I feel.

1 yard of 60" wide fawn & cream checked linen, with zip: a skirt length!
Not sure it's my kind of skirt, but would make a fantastic summer bag
or two.

A chunk 57" wide and 32" long of unbleached calico with a stripe in grey
and pink... Very 70's grandad shirt sorta fing. More bags! Possibly a
few peg bags...

3 yards of 34" wide cotton in cream, with a grean and lilac mini-print
flower. Very 70's 'Victorian' sort of print. I feel this will sit in
the costume box a year or two and then become something slightly mad and
Vicky flavoured.

3 yards of light blue polycotton with dark blue chrysanthamum print.
Has dust/drawer mark that will probably wash out. Bag lining.
Definitely kids' bag project lining.

8 ft chunk of 43" wide crinkle cotton cheesecloth in dark brown. Has
faded bit... I may redye this, along with a brown cotton skirt I have
that got a faded chunk in it. The skirt is one of those embroidered
broomstick things, so the two will go together very well...

2 chunks of black (cotton? Rayon? Mix of the two?) with woven flower
stripe in alternating pink and white, about 1" apart. One chunk is 3
yards, the other 2 yards... This may well become bags.

2 chunks of pink moire bengaline curtain fabric, probably polyester, 48"
wide, and 47" and 50" long respectively. Hm... Could be school
costumes, or it could become Christmas stockings, or it might end up as
bags... Dunno yet.

I paid her £16 for the lot. Not a bad haul, and it helps the charity.
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Posted by Bobbie Sews More on April 19, 2009, 4:11 pm

Buying the fabric to help charity ALWAYS justifies spending the money!!!!
As IF we feel the need to justify!!! HA!!!
Barbara in SC

Posted by BEI Design on April 19, 2009, 6:19 pm

Kate XXXXXX wrote:
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Score!!! Well done, Kate!

Beverly

Posted by Kate XXXXXX on April 19, 2009, 7:52 pm

BEI Design wrote:
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Some interesting fabrics that will allow me to experiment at very little
cost. Me like!

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Posted by BEI Design on April 19, 2009, 8:38 pm

Kate XXXXXX wrote:
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Me too! ;-) I have some fabric in my stash from the 60s
and 70s (and even some from the 30s and 40s - my mother's)
which I will never make into garments, so they can be used
for muslins/toiles or costumes.

Beverly

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