Well, I must hand it to Distinctive Fabrics. Although it took them a week to ship my swatches (and I don't mean transit time), they had my actual yardage order out in 24 hours. Now, anyone know how I should prewash this? It's PVC vinyl and Spandex/Lycra. Cold I'm guessing and probably air dry on the PVC? Never worked with these sorts of ( Read more... )

They're so pretty and delicate!

But they're still not pulling my attention away from Batgirl or ordering jewelry supplies for the craft fair or getting aranel13 a couple of graphics before lunch (listed in reverse order of priorities ( Read more... )

Distinctive Fabrics is sort of on my shit list right now, but only in a mild annoyance sort of way. Does it really take a week from the time two swatches are ordered to mail them out in a little first class standard letter envelope? Really? Took less time in transit than it did for them to ship the order. Good thing I'm not in a huge hurry with ( Read more... )

First things first, tried on the shirt yesterday after a second coat of gold dried nicely (really did even things out). Unfortunately there's an issue which I did not anticipate: painting a stretch fabric on a flat surface is going to cause weird wrinkles and cracks in fabric paint that's not quite as flexible said fabric. I mean, DUH, right? I ( Read more... )

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Started painting the Batgirl symbol on my compression shirt last Wednesday night. As I was about 30% done with it, I was thinking I should have stenciled it. At least the outline. Because I'm unsure and wanting to get it just right, I'm very slow at freehanding it. It's looking great though, so I can't complain about the effect at all. Just ( Read more... )

I'll try to make this short because I'm supposed to be planning and preparing to go to the beach in two days (we've moved our trip up a day to try to skirt bad weather coming into Port St. Joe, FL on Sunday).

1. Alice's Blue dress (the down the rabbit hole one) from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Since the buttons have been found and I'm doing ( Read more... )