Humpday was Exhausting
We brought home another load of leaves (#13) on Wednesday afternoon despite the colder temperatures and Jollyson helped me spread them and at least one other load of leaves.
We were both exhausted after dealing with all of it.
I have no idea if the weather will allow Jollyson and I to work outside Thursday afternoon or not. I have to admit it wouldn' ( Read more... )
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I've gotten my hands on so much wonderful fabric over the past three months that I'm going to have to call it quits on buying any more fabric from here on--unless it happens to be truly extraordinary fabric, of course.
:^)
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I know what you mean!
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Like the piece of silk I found today--there's maybe 3 yards so I'm thinking a sleeveless shell or a dolman short-sleeve, if I get lucky.
:^D
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BTW--you're not far wrong in terms of the amount!
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:DD
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I went gallivanting again. This time I found some badly needed winter tops and a heavy winter jacket that should fit me properly by January (I hope!) and a pair of black pants that fit nicely right now.
But miracle of all miracles--I found a piece of silk fabric! Or at least I think it's silk fabric! It's got that feel, you know???
8^)
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"Or at least I think it's silk fabric! It's got that feel, you know???"
Do a burn test on it---outdoors, though.
Pardon me, please, if I'm preaching to the choir, here, but in case you haven't ever done this before:
If it's silk, it'll smell of burnt hair, burnt [finger]nails.
If it's a synthetic other than rayon (which is cellulose-based and smells like clean-burned paper or burning leaves), it will smell of celery seed, or of something man-made and chemical.
And use a tweezers to hold the fabric sample so you don't have actual burned fingernails or skin to compare the burnt fabric's smell, to.
Once you ignite the fabric (use a match), let it get burning and then snuff it out. Do NOT try to blow it out. You can dunk it into a small can of water, or you can have some aluminum foil at the ready and you can place the burning fabric into that and close the foil on the fabric as if in a book by stepping on it. Ideally, you'll do this where you can't set anything else alight.
Now, right away, smell the burnt fabric.
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Thanks!
I've never owned any fabric (other than marked silk scarves) that I thought might be silk before now.
These days it's so rare to come across a fabric which is made entirely of only one material, that the old tests are all but useless these days.
And even when the label says "100% cotton" you cannot trust the label these days and the reason why is this: Most manufacturers like to start with the tiniest synthetic thread for strength and use it as a base for spinning cotton thread over it. That's where the term "ring-spun" comes from, I think.
There's an iron-clad test for making sure that a fabric or a lace is 100 percent cotton and nothing but.
(I know about it because I've been doing ceramics for decades.) The test is very simple. Only a lace that's pure cotton and nothing but cotton can be dipped in clay slip, applied to a greenware figurine, dried, and then fired in a ceramic kiln. Pure cotton lace will burn out leaving a pretty clay "lace" behind after firing. Even 1% synthetic impurities in the lace will cause it to ( ... )
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