[Nfb-krafters-korner] Fabric question

[Dixie]

Agreed

Often the fabric is folded so the right side is on the inside while on a
bolt.  

Also, before one uses the fabric in a project, it should be washed.  This
way the shrinking is done before the finished project is made.  Otherwise,
if say in a quilt for example, you use several different pieces of fabric,
from several different fabrics to create the color designs in the quilt,
then wash the fabric for the first time, it is very possible that the
fabrics will all shrink at different rates causing puckers, and other issues
with the quilt.



 Dixie
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Fabric question

Now  That is not always true about the right side of the fabric on a  bolt 
of fabric being face side out.  I do not know if they have changed  things 
in the last 13 years, but maybe.   As when I use to purchase  fabrics when I

could see there was some fabrics that the right side was folded  together 
and then put on the bolts.  They would always have a display of  those
fabrics 
with the corners folded back so you could see the pretty  side.
 
I think it best to ask for some help and then mark it in some way either  
pin, safety pin, masking tape or something so then you know for sure.
 
Some fabrics you can feel the right side, but not all fabrics you can do  
that.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 2/11/2011 11:24:41 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov writes:

Dixie,
When you first purchase your fabric you can mark  it.  The "pretty" side on 
fabric when on the bolt it is always on the  outside.  That is the same way 
with gift wrap.  When the fabric is  cut the pretty side will be on the 
outside.  When you get home, you can  label it in some way.  A Braille card
or 
a special safety pin method that  you know.  We use two stick pins together 
on the front side of the  fabric.  This tells us it is the Pretty side.

Cindy Z.  

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[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dixie
Sent:  Friday, February 11, 2011 6:26 AM
To: 'List for blind crafters and  artists'
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Fabric question

Ok, so how  does a person who is total keep track of the right and wrong
sides of the  fabrics?  Obviously the first cut is the easy one to figure
out, but  for quilting, I have a closet full of scraps.  This sounds like  a
project for the sighted?




Dixie
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