Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
Maybe your daughter is a shapeshifter and didn't tell you? Yours in costumign, Lisa A On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:47:03 -0700 Julie jtknit...@gmail.com writes: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. I made a dress for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
--- Everything that Cin asked and... Which pattern did you use? Is the stretching only in the bodice? Did you flat line the bodice? Did you pipe the neckline, arm holes and waist? Is the fabric a print or a woven plaid? Did you make sure that you were on the straight of grain before you cut out the pieces? Nadine Pelikan On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. I made a dress for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
... Those are all good Qs, too and... are you *SURE* it's not a stretch fabric? Many are stealth-stretch like stretch velour, stretch demin. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nadine Pelikan nadine...@yahoo.com wrote: --- Everything that Cin asked and... Which pattern did you use? Is the stretching only in the bodice? Did you flat line the bodice? Did you pipe the neckline, arm holes and waist? Is the fabric a print or a woven plaid? Did you make sure that you were on the straight of grain before you cut out the pieces? Nadine Pelikan On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
I have bought nice 100% cotton quilting fabric for a quilt project in the past where 2 of the colors of the same exact fabric behaved beautifully but the third color stretched like mad for no apparent reason (even after hi heat wash/dry/iron/starching all three colors). It made piecing the quilt a total nightmare because when I pressed the seams on the blocks the stretchy color stretched and threw the square off badly, even though everything was cut the same. So maybe she just got some of the stretchy quilting cotton that acted like linen and not cotton that I got? On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Cin cinbar...@gmail.com wrote: ... Those are all good Qs, too and... are you *SURE* it's not a stretch fabric? Many are stealth-stretch like stretch velour, stretch demin. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nadine Pelikan nadine...@yahoo.com wrote: --- Everything that Cin asked and... Which pattern did you use? Is the stretching only in the bodice? Did you flat line the bodice? Did you pipe the neckline, arm holes and waist? Is the fabric a print or a woven plaid? Did you make sure that you were on the straight of grain before you cut out the pieces? Nadine Pelikan On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. I made a dress for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
Washing and drying shrinks fabric. Wearing stretches it back out again. The shrinking from washing is not a permanent process, especially for fabric under stress (like tight clothes). On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. I made a dress for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
I've seen this happen with wool and looser weaves. Never cotton quilting fabric though, unless it's on the bias. That is strange. I guess all you can do now is line it. (With fabrics that don't hold their shape, interfacing corrects that but now that you've put the dress together, that would be a bear. You'd have to take it all apart, iron it, add the interfacing, then sew it all together again.) If you line it with something that doesn't stretch out of shape, the dress will only stretch as far as the lining will...I hope!! 'Bella On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Aurora Celeste auroracele...@gmail.comwrote: Washing and drying shrinks fabric. Wearing stretches it back out again. The shrinking from washing is not a permanent process, especially for fabric under stress (like tight clothes). On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. I made a dress for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
Some things to think about for your debugging: Did you put in all the facings, linings interfacings required? Did you pre-shrink your cottons with hot water and then in the dryer on zorch? Does the stretch occur in crossgrain direction? Is your model wearing period unmentionables and, if corsetting, is she corseting to the same dimensions each time? Got pictures inside out? Also, IMHO, the Joann's quilting fabrics on the bargain wall are not particularly high quality. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. I made a dress for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Question for experienced sempsters
what Cin says ;) (she saved me the trubble of typing it all!) ==Marjorie Wilser @..@ @..@ @..@ Three Toad Press http://3toad.blogspot.com/ On Oct 8, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Cin wrote: Some things to think about for your debugging: Did you put in all the facings, linings interfacings required? Did you pre-shrink your cottons with hot water and then in the dryer on zorch? Does the stretch occur in crossgrain direction? Is your model wearing period unmentionables and, if corsetting, is she corseting to the same dimensions each time? Got pictures inside out? Also, IMHO, the Joann's quilting fabrics on the bargain wall are not particularly high quality. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: I have a mystery that I'd like some insight on. I've spoken in person to all the costumers I know and all are baffled. I made a dress for my daughter from decent quilting cottons from Joanne's. It has a tight fitted bodice with boning. The dress stretched so I took it in. It stretched some more so I put elastic in key areas. It stretched some more. Yesterday just for giggles I tried it on. It fits. I'm substantially larger than my daughter (maybe 2 sizes). What the heck? The dress will fit her immediately after washing drying but begins stretching back out within an hour or so. Does anyone have any ideas? The fabric was washed dried before I cut it out. This is very discouraging. I worked hard to make it fit her just right. Now it looks like I'm a lousy sempster. But at least I guess I get a dress out of it. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
