{"id":1471,"date":"2012-03-14T05:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2012-03-14T05:27:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T10:27:48","slug":"wonderful-fabric-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1471","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Fabric Find"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flowlines #2, 12″ x 16″<\/p>\n

I found this lovely plain, soft grey fabric several weeks ago on a remnant stall at the sunday markets. \u00a0It jumped up and down saying “Pick me! pick me!” and so I bought 5m @ what I thought was a good price, 100 pesos\/m \u00a0(about \u00a0US$5 \/ meter). \u00a0 It’s \u00a0cotton, about 60″ wide, which is unusual here in uruguay, and has a very slight sheen on one side. \u00a0It also contains about 5% viscose according to the stall holder. \u00a0 While I worked with it during the following week, I had two thoughts – (1) ‘cheap’ as it was in Aus or US terms, \u00a0I should have haggled a bit over it, and (2) I should have offered to buy the lot – it was after all a remnant of hard to find cotton fabric, likely to never be repeated, etc. \u00a0 It was so nice to work with, and these thoughts persisted, so last weekend I went back. \u00a0And after a search, the woman found the rest of the bolt which amounted to 6 and 1\/2m, and sold the lot of me for $300, \u00a0 US $15. \u00a0So averaging, yes it was a good price\/metre. \u00a0I have also done some very small pieces using it as a background, and am having them photographed today.<\/p>\n

So I’m happy with about \u00a08-9 m in my stash, and will be using a lot more of this wonderful grey, until it runs out ! \u00a0The stall holder is always there, I have bought things from her before, and this time left a card with my contact details on it asking her to \u00a0please phone me if she gets in any other plain cotton fabric with no designs on it. \u00a0Such stuff is needle-in-haystack value for patchworkers here. \u00a0And yet this fabric is so nice, a finer quality than any of the plains I have brought back from Aus or the US down the years. \u00a0 I’ll be sorry when it’s all used up – but hey, it’s a wonderful thing about fabric that no matter where you are there is always some wonderful find of unusual quality or marvellous colour that \u00a0pops up unexpectedly to demand a purchase….<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flowlines #2, 12″ x 16″ I found this lovely plain, soft grey fabric several weeks ago on a remnant stall at the sunday markets. \u00a0It jumped up and down saying “Pick me! pick me!” and so I bought 5m @ what I thought was a good price, 100 pesos\/m \u00a0(about \u00a0US$5 \/ meter). \u00a0 It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,187,295,186],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-flowlines-series","tag-free-machine-quilting","tag-inspiration","tag-wandering-strip-piecing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-nJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}