Lost in a Sea of Fabric!

I spent the day in Cambridge with my brother yesterday, so I went across to the fabric warehouse almost as soon as it opened this morning. I managed to track down something suitable for bias tape, even if it’s not a perfect match for what I’ve been using, and also came away with some lovely, soft beige material, six metres of gold fabric that I think will do for a King’s Willow Weave scarf and, my best buy of the day, a whole roll of red faux-suede for a pound! My plan is to use some of it for a coat and to make a banner to hang from my wheelchair for MCM Birmingham. It’s a shame I didn’t think of coats until I sat down with all the fabric this evening, as there were a couple of tools of faux-suede in brown, but I passed them over. I’ll have to nip back either tomorrow or Thursday and see if they still have them. If nothing else, it will be a decent (and cheap!) fabric to run some test patterns up before hacking into my lovely leather!

I Hate Bias Tape

I figured buying bias tape would ultimately save me some time, but now I really wish I had just bought some fabric asks made my own!  It looks as though the tape I bought to make my Skyhold shirt is not only out of stock, but entirely discontinued. I’ve searched high and low online with no luck, and have now been to three different HobbyCraft stores in entirely different areas of the country in the vain hope that they might have a single, solitary roll left in stock. That’s all I need – about three metres!

While on today’s trip to HobbyCraft, the staff member I spoke to suggested that I have a look upstairs in the clearance section, on the chance that any left overs might have gone up there.  While I want able to find the one I wanted, I did come across a mending tape in a very similar shade, marked down to £1, so I grabbed the last four packs to test out. For £1 each, I didn’t really mind too much if I found it didn’t work for the shirt, but I could guarantee that if it did work asks I liked it, I would never be able to buy another metre of it again!

Unfortunately, the flipping adhesive made it a nightmare to sew, so I’m going to have to come up with another idea and use the mending tape for a different project.  I think my best chance now is to make a trip over to the fabric warehouse and see if I can find something that’s a reasonably close match for the bias tape that I can cut down myself.  And, of course, it’s a good excuse to go over to the warehouse and see what they have in!