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
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
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
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
what Cin says ;) (she saved me the trubble of typing it all!)
==Marjorie Wilser
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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
Watching news tonight, noticed, again, some woman on national TV, a
national-level government consultant (!) -- her hair looks like a wet string
mop. Like she's been dressing her hair with olive oil to make it look greasy
stringy ON PURPOSE. Or MAYBE? this is supposed to look like it's still
