Fabric Porn, and Cheap Too
Jul. 26th, 2005 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akirluI mentioned to my friend Liz, who does art quilts, that I had found a vendor on eBay who sold Folkwear patterns for less than buying direct from Folkwear and Liz, that perpetual font of Stuff I Need to Know About, shot back, "Denver Fabrics sells them for thirteen dollars apiece."
Which is not quite true, but 20% off MSRP is nothing to sneeze at, either. And besides, more to the point, Denver Fabrics has STUFF. Fabulous stuff. I don't know why I might need a small hide of garment-weight, sueded, fuschia leather, but if I do, I know where to get it at an amazingly good price. (Under $10. For the hide.) And maybe you have to be into beading to get excited by the prospect of an assortment of ultrasuede scraps for just under $2, but I'm pretty excited. And then there's that amazing silk taffeta in a color I can't even name (in Guy Colors, it's pink, but in Girl Colors it appears to be a pinkish, maybe mauvish, magenta-to-blue changeable. Arguably this tells you what you need to know about the various virtues of Guy Colors versus Girl Colors: concision versus precision). And while I have no immediate use for a pinkbrontosaurus apatosaurus iron-on patch, it's charming to note that the sewing world has also taken a stance on paleontological nomenclature, if not representational accuracy. So those of you with a tropism for fabrics, you have been warned. Click links at your own risk.
EDIT: OMG! They have steel boning! Sqeeeeeeee!
Which is not quite true, but 20% off MSRP is nothing to sneeze at, either. And besides, more to the point, Denver Fabrics has STUFF. Fabulous stuff. I don't know why I might need a small hide of garment-weight, sueded, fuschia leather, but if I do, I know where to get it at an amazingly good price. (Under $10. For the hide.) And maybe you have to be into beading to get excited by the prospect of an assortment of ultrasuede scraps for just under $2, but I'm pretty excited. And then there's that amazing silk taffeta in a color I can't even name (in Guy Colors, it's pink, but in Girl Colors it appears to be a pinkish, maybe mauvish, magenta-to-blue changeable. Arguably this tells you what you need to know about the various virtues of Guy Colors versus Girl Colors: concision versus precision). And while I have no immediate use for a pink
EDIT: OMG! They have steel boning! Sqeeeeeeee!
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