Did you ever fall in love with a fabric when you first lay eyes on it and then when you go to work with it it is a nightmare to work with?Welcome to my nightmare! Last week, I finally got my fabric order from the supplier that I have been waiting for since November, yes, November. Can you believe it?! Anyway, while I was there I saw these new 100% cotton prints that had come in. Fell in love and had to have them. Got them all ready to use. Had a ton of ideas as to what I wanted to use them for, cut out a few pieces and then started putting them together. That is when my nightmare began. I cut everything at the same time with the same template, but when I went to put the pieces together they ended up being different sizes. One piece was larger than the other. How does this happen? They start off the same but then when I went to pin them together, they take on a new identity. After I make my way through pinning I try and put some stitches in. The nightmare continues... the fabric puckers and bunches and just goes wanky.
It ends up 
being two pieces of fabric with one being the right size and the other trying to fit in and be the right size, but all the while being too big and not lying flat and perfect the way it should. Needless to say, it ended up in the "Heep Pile" where one day the seam ripper and I will have a moment and take the darn disappointment apart and try again, cause I just can't bare to waste perfectly good, but not co-operating fabric. Now I don't give up that easily and I had four more of the same pattern cut out and staring at me waiting for me to put together. So I relucently tried again. I ran into the same problems with the pinning and matching raw edges, but with a little fine tuning was able to put them together and they turned out perfectly. I was still disappointed, though, because I was so excited and eager to use the fabric and figured I would be able to just zip through them, only to find out that that was not the case. Not only that, I have 3 bolts of this stuff that I am not looking forward or eager to use now.
(oh, and just in case you were wondering what that black strip was at the top. It is black twill. Hard to tell in the picture)
1 comment:
what a nightmare!
i've never had that problem. especially with ALL the fabric ... usually it's ME with the problem. i wonder what's going on here.
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