Mystery Fabric

[lendube]

Ah, mystery fabric! Pauline made reference to it in another post and I'm cursing it myself now too. Could have been avoided just by noting what the end of the bolt said.

The stuff is beautiful, silky mossy green with a sheen on one side and dull with a texture on the other. Synthetic something or other. It's very hard to get a good cut with my rotary cutter, feels rough to cut even with my good scissors. It embroiders nicely but gives my machine fits. It doesn't press worth a damn and the water from my iron stained it. It snags from my rough hands (due to the dry weather).

I started off making a lovely little robe for my Mom but when the snagging started I thought better of it knowing it wouldn't stay looking nice because of the snags not to mention the water staining.

Any ideas anyone as to what it could be ???

[DorothyL]

I made a pair of pants of a tan mystery fabric. The pants are nice. They don't wrinkle and wash well. It is a fairly soft, wearable fabric but it was tough to cut though and hard to pin. They were also about the only fabric that made my sewing machine complain. It made the pants but it didn't like it.
I think it was some kind of outdoor fabric.

[bridesmom]

I have something like that which I bought to make a duvet cover. It was almost brocade, shiny on one side, flat on the other, both sides pull snags like crazy, and my hands are so rough from washing so much at work that the fabric would catch on my fingers and snag. Frays like a son ofa gun. The roll said 100% polyester, but I have a feeling that if I wash this stuff, I will have a pile of shredded junk. Pretty though. Won't iron worth a darn either. I think it may be related to your green somehow.

[lendube]

Boy, it sure sounds like the same beast. This one frays like crazy too. It's so pretty though.

I finally got all the variables figured out to get a good embroidery. I think it was the design itself more than anything that was giving my machine problems. I've decided to make little potpourri sachets with fringe and drawstring with an embroidery for the ladies in my family and as a hostess gift or two.

[fabric_addict]

OH. I've been looking for an explanation for a nice drawstring bag so that I could try to make some. How did you make yours?

[lendube]

I'll let you know when I get it figured out. Doesn't seem too complicated. Should be starting on those by the end of the week. Happy to let you know how I've done it. I'll post a picture or two.

[lendube]

Fabric Addict, I finished the sachets (and a pillow). You can see them under the "Finished Projects" forum.

I didn't make them drawstring. I just made them extra "tall", folded the fabric inside the bag and tied it closed with a ribbon. They can be opened and the scents renewed just as easily or used to hold anything at all. Drawstring would have been a lot more work.

[mozeyrn]

Can the top be folded down to make a casing and then run a ribbon through to tie it on top? Seems easier than making a type of buttonhole to thread the ribbon in and out of lke grommets. Did I make sense?

[lendube]

Not sure I know what you mean. The ribbon has to go in and out somewhere if it's to be a drawstring. Try again, you might have an idea I hadn't thought of.

[LeapFrog Libby]

Drawstring bags have 2 openings for strings and 2 strings,(one on each side of purse) My instructions years ago said make small buttonholesin the casing front before finishing and thread ribbon thru from each side, so that you pull from each side to close it..