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[qplourde]

Christmas card perfect: My Porg-jamas

What's cuter than #StarWars #porgs? Matching porg pajama pants of course! Since I didn't actually make this my Christmas card, I'm posting about this make here, even though it's maybe a few years too late for the novelty.

Patterns: Sewaholic Tofino Pants Thread Theory Designs Eastwood Pants I don’t shop at Jo-Ann Fabrics for actual fabric that often, but it can be a great resource for novelty prints. When the movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi came out, I found this great flannel fabric that featured one of the creatures from the film – the porgs. These little guys were a highlight for me, cute little bird-like…

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#Eastwood Pajama pants #flannel pajama pants #homemade clothes #homemade pajama pants #Jo-Ann Fabrics #porgs #Sewaholic patterns #Sewing #Thread Theory Designs #Tofino pants

[stellaluna33]

All of Padme's costumes from the Star Wars prequels are so fanciful and so gorgeous, that it takes me right out every time that on the dress and headpiece she wears while frolicking in the fields with Anakin... they chose to decorate it with those little rosebud appliques you could find in every single fabric store in the 1980s and 90s. Like, I had a Cabbage Patch Kid doll dress that had one of those little rosebud appliques on it!

#They have a Jo-Ann Fabrics on Naboo? #Dude they're EVERYWHERE!

[alucardsathomewife]

If there is a sewing pattern for Alucards coat

I need it now, PLEASE

It's the only thing I need in life

#hellsing ultimate #hellsing #alucard hellsing #hellsing fandom #alucard #alucard my beloved #alucard simping #alucard simp page #i wanna make his coat in his exact size so it feels LIKE- #i wanna wear it #ive been hand sewing all my life so its something im able to make #Jo-Ann's Fabrics has the fire stuff #sewing #crafts #sewing patterns

[bladeeontv]

Every time I go to Jo Ann fabrics I get followed by security and then when I go to checkout there’s an old lady in front of me fumbling the coupons and a long line forms behind me and I see the cashier freaking out. I wasn’t gonna steal when I walked in but waiting in that line made it so tempting.

#dear diary #Jo Ann Fabrics

[blunderpuff]

i fucking. put the thing on the blocking mats and IMMEDIATELY could tell one sleeve was longer than the other.

two sleeves, both alike in dignity (row count) but one of them is 23 goddamn inches long and the other is about 20 inches long.

i already wove in (weaved in???) the end of it. i thought i was finally done with this fucking thing. it should have taken me 2 weeks tops to knit, but it took 5. and now i have to somehow unpick that tail, rip the ribbing, then rip back unknown number of rows (gonna eyeball it) then REKNIT the ribbing and idk... block??? block only that sleeve??

THIS IS A FUN HOBBY. I LOVE KNITTING. MAKING A SWEATER IS MY FAVORITE THboo hoo hoo hoo i'm so fucking smad (sad and mad) i don't even want to look at that thing.

#the secret world of merry mac #i was going to go to Jo-Ann's (derogatory) to ~buy buttons~ for it (and that strawberry print fabric they advertised to me on insta) #AS A TREAT #but now i gotta do MORE WORK on this sweater and i just wanna DIE AND BE DEAD

[thecrochetcrowd]

Crochet Parquet Blanket Pattern + Tutorial

Crochet Parquet Blanket Crochet Parquet Tutorial Introducing this lovely Crochet Parquet Blanket. An exclusive pattern only found at Jo-Ann. I took this particular sample to a weekend show to exhibit back in the fall. Like a moth to a flame but crocheters to something different, crocheters came to my booth to feel this blanket. It’s one of those blankets where the tactile feeling of the softness…

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#Bernat Bundle #Crochet Blanket #Crochet Throw #Crochet Tutorial #JO-ANN #JOANN Fabrics & Crafts #Yarn at JOANN

[shanie-the-komania-toyaddict]

Me sending that ask to @jeysuso like my most popular story written thus far this year ain't about Sami Zayn DIYing merchandise as a message of Romantic Support. Sami absolutely has a type and it's the CRAFTY type.

#You wanna impress Sami Zayn #You need to know your way around a Jo Ann Fabrics

[ploncc]

I get the layers upon fucking layers of why it's like this but it's still annoying ironic that being intrigued by the Wrong Sort of Monstrousness is so heavily judged

like you're into #darkacademia style intrigue and murder n' shit? enjoy gore? watch scary movies? talk about wanting to go feral and rip politicians to shreds and then eat their entrails?

Cool!

what's that? you're into the bond films and are completely aware that they're light propaganda at best but still find ways to enjoy them and are fascinated by jimmy bond, or even like him as a character?

#i stare at what i hate and i recognize its humanity and all the ways i could have become the same #i cannot breathe without taking in the same air as it #i open my mouth and the same range of human noises come out #i stare at what i hate #will it stare back? #all i'm saying is that being feral over hannibal has a certain acceptance to it that being feral over Military Crime Man doesn't #which isn't a bad thing #but oh boy it sure is a Thing(tm) #''hah hah hah i love the dark things and the scary things and the monsters'' like babe do you actually think they're monstrous #or did you take something with the aesthetics of monstrousness that otherwise isn't that morally intrusive but represents being queer/ #disabled/poc/neurodivergent/fat/what have you pretty well as a way to discuss experience in modern life? coz thats not a bad thing either!! #but are you in love with the disgusting and the monstrous or are you just in love with the aesthetics of it/loving what others hate? #those are different. not bad!! just different! #i have a feeling this is going to be comprehensible to like six and a half people #somehow bames jonds has escaped the 'moral crime of watching a thing' discourse #probably because its a dad thing to like #oh god #where's my jo ann gift card i need to buy fabric and sew a skirt quick someone am i looking like a dad ???

[branchedman]

i love supporting small local businesses except for the fabric store i went to the other day where the older white woman working the shop conspicuously followed me the entire time i was in there like she thought i was gonna stash an entire bolt of fabric in my jacket and walk out with it

#between that & the rancid vibes at my local jo-ann's i'm good fabric/notions shopping online i think #where will this go

[themadlostgirl]

I have had better days. Tried to go shopping and on the way got detoured twice and then had a gun pulled on me by a rando in the lane next to us...so...you know...could have been better

#bad day #got the assholes license plate and a description at least #the cashier at jo ann fabrics was super nice and cool tho! #silver lining to a shitty day

[grandmayardsale]

The four of us if we were quotes from Hunter that I've written down

#hunter is the first person shown here! #donuts #jo ann fabrics #essence

[motorclit]

Have any of you reading this ever been stuck in a rut be it due to depression, stress, Autistic burnout (or even regular burnout) and no matter what you did, nothing helped? And then you decide to go through your subscriptions on YT and a punk rock historian covers an era/genre of music you still adore, and mentions modern/newer bands inspired by such a sound/movement and you check out one of them and discover the ONE SONG that SOMEHOW through GOD/DESS-LIKE INTERVENTION is like injecting life into your veins and you suddenly wanna do shit again? And then you hyperfocus on the song and play it over and over irl and in your head and now you can't wait to get your hands on some supplies and start DIY'ing shit again?

That's me right now. With this song listed above.

The song is "Womanarchist" by Bad Cop/Bad Cop and I now have life in my body again.

And I don't know how or why I didn't think to look this up earlier, but my brain finally realized that I can look up tutorials on how to DIY your own patches effectively without the need for acrylic paint, which means I can make quality patches for myself, including ones of bands I adore but can't find patches (or shirts!) anywhere on the internet.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some jeans to bleach and dye and some supplies to (eventually.. money's tight for about a week) get so I can make shit again! (I'll probably post pics of my political pants in the near-future, just note that they're not done yet because I'm a picky shit).

#I really hope the Jo-Anne Fabrics places got the canvas and fabric paint I need! #I say places cuz we travel to many areas in many directions for about half hour or 45 min for shit #don't lookit me like that #I'm from rural ohio so this is normal #Youtube

[formeryelpers]

Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts, 1000 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA 91204

I haven’t been to a JoAnn’s in years. The Glendale location is HUGE and has much more than fabrics. It probably has most of the craft supplies that Michael’s has but way more fabrics, sewing machines, thread, sewing patterns, trims, buttons, ribbons, quilting supplies, sewing baskets, notions, etc. They even have upholstery fabrics like velvet, faux suede, vinyl, etc. They also have yarn, paints, jewelry making supplies, floral supplies, scrapbooking supplies, rubber stamps, home décor, candles, baskets, etc.

They have custom picture framing and a counter for cutting fabrics, ribbons, etc. There was a clearance section. Prices seemed high but they probably have things you can’t easily get elsewhere.

The Breakfast Club fabric was cute. A Star Wars sewing basket was $59.99, which seems expensive.

3.5 out of 5 stars.

By Lolia S.

#Jo-Ann Fabrics and Crafts #fabric store #fabrics #sewing supplies #ribbons #sewing machines #Glendale

[bomberqueen17]

car organizer

So I wanted to make myself the kind of organizer that hangs over the back of your car seat to hold your stuff, to keep the things that ought to stay in my car in, because with my old car, I hauled so much cargo and loaded and unloaded the thing so often and wound up with so much random junk in there that I lost my tire inflator, foldable shovel, and most of the rest of it. I thought, if I just attach those to the back of one of the front seats then it doesn't matter what I do with the car, if I'm hauling baby chicks or small humans, passengers or cargo or what, I don't have to worry.

I shopped around but I didn't see anything like what I wanted, so I went down in the basement and poked around.

Thus follows not exactly a tutorial, but a description of my thought process. This took forever but if I had to do it again I could do it faster, I think.

I had a weird but perfectly-sized rectangle of heavy-duty polyester canvas (twice as long as I needed, but exactly as wide, so I could use it double thickness), some suit interfacing, and then several yards of an all-plastic but beautiful brocade I bought from Jo-Ann's back when I didn't know how to shop for fabric.

So I bought myself a new tire inflator and folding shovel, and then measured the jump-start powerbank I already own, and made pockets exactly sized for those three things. I also guesstimated a pocket for my motley collection of ratchet straps. And then I laid those out on the bit of canvas, and figured I had room for a wide short pocket across the top-- gathered the bottom, and put a channel at the top and pulled elastic through, then sewed two seams down it to hold it into three separate pockets.

I did french seams on the first square pocket then realized that made it too small so I had to piece a little extension around the back of it. Then I realized that all-plastic brocade ravels horribly... unless you run a lighter along all the cut edges. Bickety-bam instant selvege. So I melted the edges of all the rest of my fabric, and no more French seams means no more excessive seam allowances.

(I didn't exactly follow this method but I did find a good tutorial here for how to make a cargo pocket. It might have worked better than what i did, LOL. I only made one pocket pleated, and one gathered, the others I tried mostly to make to size.)

[image description: a black panel of canvas lies on a table, with three pockets made of brown/black/gold polyester brocade lying atop it, chalked around like crime scene bodies.]

Laid them out, traced with chalk, futzed with the placement. Realized I didn't have to center that top one, and if I off-set it, I could fit the ratchet strap pocket next to it.

Attached the pockets to the canvas, then spray-adhesived the interfacing to the back, then folded the canvas in half, sewed it right sides together leaving one short side open, turned it right-side out, gingerly ironed it (everything is plastic). I had some of those huge thick plastic strips they seal around big boxes sometimes in the garbage in the basement so I pulled those out, carefully ironed them flat under a press cloth, and then cut lengths of them-- it was heavy-duty stuff, I think a dehumidifier had come in the package, solid plastic an inch wide-- and used those as horizontal boning at the bottom, middle, and top, securing in place with a line of stitching above and below wherever there weren't pockets. The top, I closed up by just folding the front over the back; it was the selvedge edge, so I left that raw, and zig-zagged it shut with the piece of "boning" inside, then pushed the boning up against the seam with my fingers and sewed the other side of the channel with a straight stitch.

I could not for the life of me figure out how to measure the straps. so i went out and sat in my car with a lighter, scissors, needle, thread, a pair of old shoelaces, a length of 2" wide elastic torn out of an unsuccessful earlier make (i have a roll of the stuff... at the farm, not here), and a length of heavy-duty twill tape I don't know where I got.

I held the organizer up to the seat, safety-pinned the twill tape to the top, threaded it around the headrest, safety-pinned it to the other side. Decided it needed more support, as the upper corners wanted to flop. Used a drawstring threader to pull the shoelace through the flap at the bottom of the seat, where all the cabling for the heated seat is stored-- there's upholstery covering it, open at both sides, so I threaded the shoelace through that, just to pull the whole shebang in taut against the seat instead of letting it swing freely into the knees of whoever might sit back there. Sewed it down on one side, safety-pinned it to the other. Cut the shoelace off, then sewed the remnant to one upper extreme corner, wrapped it past the headset, safety-pinned it to the other side. Finally took the 2" wide elastic, sewed it firmly down on one side, passed it around the seat, measured it, then passed it behind the seat to sew it down un-stretched to the other side, then put it on properly. So the non-stretch fasteners are only sewed on one side, and can be unpinned on the other if I need to take the thing off.

Then I loaded it up with stuff.

[Image description: the rear of a car driver's seat, taken from the rear seat behind it, with an organizer hanging from the headrest, brocade pockets stuffed full of objects. There's a green object hanging from a keychain at the top left-- it is a folding knife patterned to look like a leaf.]

Now the things that ought to just always be in my car can (mostly) just always be there. I should check that the tire inflator works, and I should periodically charge up the jump pack, but I already checked if the foldable shovel works (it does), and I carefully bundled up the ratchet straps into bags I made out of the cuffs of old crew socks, which sewn shut where I cut the threadbare foot off make perfectly-sized padded stretchy storage bags for light duty ratchet straps.

Top left to bottom right, it's got:

Ratty old work gloves, a clipped-on keychain with a decorative rosary and a functional folding knife, a sock-cuff bag containing a multitool screw driver, a little baggie of tampons, and some Kleenex The tire inflator kit, the jump pack kit three ratchet straps, a folding shovel multitool thingy, and a bag of toiletries with spare socks, chapstick, hand cream, a travel toothbrush and dry toothpaste kit, and a couple other things-- most of it is shit that was handed out the one time I flew business class on Icelandair.

Then, to the right, around my center console, I took a vintage like circa 2004 Old Navy nylon drawstring backpack, threaded those heavy-duty twist tie things they use to close disposable coffee bags through the drawstring bit of the mouth to keep it open, sewed some of the twill tape to the top, and added a magnetic catch to hold a plastic bag in place. The magnetic catch didn't do enough so I have some half-broken old hair clips holding the plastic bag in better position: that's now my car's trash bag, and the backpack's two tiny zippered pockets hold spare plastic bags.

Now the last thing I want to do is to get some hooks to hang from the passenger headrest, and get loops attached to my snow brush and squeegee, and hang those from the hooks, because otherwise they are always scattered around the floor of my car in the way of whatever I want to do.

Anyway. Ready for the inaugural road trip Sunday, when I drive back to the farm.

#about the author #sewing #real life #farm life #subuwoo

[pants-magic-pants]

✧⊹JARETH BALLROOM COAT⊹✧

[This post is part of a series about constructing Jareth's entire masquerade ball costume. Visit the master post here.]

Fabric Selection [Part 2 of 2] The Drama of the Lining

Hello all you fine goblins, goblinettes, masqueraders, bog creatures(?)... I'm back to ramble a lot, and unless you are really into sewing or want to make this coat, this post will probably bore the hell out of you but by all means here it is.

Firstly I want to say that I'm part of a Labyrinth cosplay group now, have a beautiful Sarah waiting for me in just a state above, a masquerade dancer who is already my good friend, and we'd love to do a dreamy photoshoot for everyone at a ballroom or wedding venue somewhere between us. However, I'm financially strained. I'm working extra shifts, offering commissions, etc, but it's only doing so much. If you've made it this far and have been appreciating any of my content, please consider tipping the blog. All the posts have a button that looks like this ($). Please help us unite. Please please, throw a dollar into my guitar case, won't you?

ANYHOO! I'm not good at lining, as I think I've mentioned. There's a lot more I need to learn to get it looking good and structured, and in this case there was so much gravity working against it too. I also am sure you notice that there are ghastly black stitches across the middle of the pleats on the inside... had thought that wouldn't be showing... whoops.

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We’ll start with the creamy, slightly sparkly, crimped(?) fabric that lines the tail first. It doesn’t appear to be lurex/foiled silk or satin, as it seems to be even lighter weight than those fabrics. That’s the first thing that I would say is important about picking this lining: it needs to be something SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT.

The reason being that, at least for the way I did the pleats, there was as much of it needed as the velvet, as it all got folded together. Even if you didn't do it this way, you would only want to add the least amount of extra weight as possible, using something that is still durable and isn't going to blow every which way.

That made the search pretty limiting, as did the fact that it needed to be opaque, flowy, and non-stretchy. Originally when I began searching, I was looking for things like organza or chiffon with crimps/ridges, which looked very pretty, but they were too sheer unless layered, and layering would have made them too stiff. 

After doing further research post-completion of the coat, viscose seems like it would have looked and behaved correctly, since it's soft, light, non-stretchy and not sheer, but apparently it isn't the most environmentally friendly fabric, so it’s something to consider. There's also cupro, though I've never gotten my hands on either of these so it's hard to say that definitively. It’s supposed to have a similar appearance and drape as silk, but it's not quite as shiny. It's opaque, and unless it's mixed with elastane or rayon it's not supposed to be very stretchy either, which leads me to…

What not to use: a stretchy fabric, like for any lining on any project. I already made that clear, but did I follow my own advice? Not this time. I got fed up with fabric drama and settled for a very pretty but stretchy foiled fabric, hell if I know what it was because it was late one evening at Jo-Ann Fabric, and I was Over That Shit™ and suffered a lapse in judgment. The result was slight warping from over-handling, and the entire seam between it and the inner facing was bubbly. I’m still kicking myself. Shoulda’ gone home. Shoulda’ said “no, Jo-Ann.”

Here's what I used. Yeah, it's pretty right? But that's all it is.

Another thing to note is that there are subtle ridges in the bottom lining. Not pleats, but like, crimping? It’s a very similar texture to Sarah’s dress. Searching for terms related to ridges would help find something similar, and as for colors, I searched for mainly creams, or borderline beige. Sometimes “champagne” also yielded good results. It’s definitely not white or even ivory, as white will turn the color scheme of the coat way too cold, stark, and sterile. Ivory (while warm-toned) may have the same effect. 

It helped me to look at a color wheel and decide the most complimentary combination based on the exact shade of blue that my velvet was. The ballroom coat’s actual shade of blue may seem to vary based on the photograph, but after seeing a lot of reference photos, I started to be able to tell which ones had been, em, tweaked, enhanced, etc. and that tended to be the ones that presented it as electric blue or leaning towards turquoise. The true shade seems to be like one shade cooler than true-blue. Am I making sense?

Given that, the lining’s shade of cream would need to be basically a pure cream color, not leaning towards rosy/orange NOR towards green on the color wheel, in order to be complimentary. However, for anyone who’s making the coat who wants to use a warmer shade of blue for the velvet, this is perfectly fine, it just will change just about every other color choice that you make, down to the color of the jewels and buttons. You may find that all your other blues need to be warmer shades, and that a rosier cream lining (champagne) looks best. 

Before moving on to the top lining, I want to mention that there is - strangely – a piece of cream colored tulle in the back? Not sure how that looks if you were to open the coat and look in, and since I couldn’t think of a way to make that look good, I didn’t include it. 

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The top lining! We can’t see what’s in there, so this comes down to intuition and preference. I wanted a fully lined coat that looked good and had an aesthetically pleasing transition from one fabric to another, so I pretty much lined the top as if it was its own mini jacket, and I chose satin in a slightly lighter shade of cool blue. A little too light to be called navy but I’m sure people still would call it that.

I wouldn’t recommend using the same fabric used on the tail for the top because the fabric for the tail seems too textured to be smooth enough to get in and out of without issues. Best to stick with classic lining: silk or satin, in blue or a neutral that would match something else on the coat. Black, cream, maybe even dark/metallic grey or silver? The extra challenge of using a shade of blue is that you’d have to be very discerning about whether or not it matched. I had to take the velvet with me everywhere when making my decisions.

Almost nothing featured here is what I used, but here's me being diligant and bringing my swatches everywhere.

Not only did the color have to match, but the texture and amount of shimmer also mattered. Super matte silks/satins seemed to anchor down the splendor of the sparkling velvet too much. The really shiny fabrics looked best. I settled for something a little more subdued, but okay. It was okayyyy. Again, I was Over It™. 

Well, was that super interesting, or what?

#labyrinth #labyrinth cosplay #jareth cosplay #jareth the goblin king #coat construction #jareth ballroom coat #coat lining

[renthony]

In which Ren goes on a textile rant.

Going to get in a fight with whoever does the listings for Jo-Ann Fabrics, because why the HELL is a listing for "natural linen" actually for a fabric that contains 50% RAYON. I had to scroll halfway down the goddamn page to find a 100% linen, despite that being what I searched for in the first place.

(I know it's because linen-weave fabrics get called linen even when they're not 100% flax, but I think that's a ridiculous practice that we should stop fuckin' doing. I am looking for PROPER FUCKING LINEN, not fake shit!! God damn it!!!!!)

Fucking rayon. I hate rayon. Everyone's convinced it's "natural" and it's fucking not (it's actually classified as "semi-synthetic"), and in 2014 it made up 56.9% of fibers found in deep-ocean environments. Improvements have been made since then, but I still fucking hate rayon based solely on the fact that marketing has deceived everyone into thinking it's more environmentally-friendly than it is.

It's like...how everyone thinks, oh, bamboo fabric is made of natural materials, so it must be all good! But then they ignore how much fucking processing you have to do to bamboo, and how much water it takes.

That's not even getting into cotton manufacturing. The rates of water consumption and pesticide use in cotton farming are fucking obscene, and cotton is right up there with rayon in how much of it winds up in the ocean. Cotton doesn't degrade quickly at all, and while I wouldn't call it as destructive as some all-synthetic fabric, I still don't like how much people think "oh, it's natural, so it must not have a big environmental impact."

The marketing around "natural fibers" is so fucking deceptive in general. Just because the fiber is natural doesn't mean the manufacturing is inherently sustainable. I'd hate rayon a lot less if there wasn't so much "ohhh, but it's NATURAL! Please ignore how much chemical processing we have to do to the fibers!"

I'm not inherently opposed to polymers and synthetic materials. It is fully possible to produce sustainable polymers, and polymer science is making incredible breakthroughs every day. I genuinely hope that we can continue to push the field into new sustainable directions.

It really is the marketing of semi-synthetic and heavily-processed fibers as "natural fabrics" that pisses me off. At least things like spandex and nylon aren't trying to convince me that they're natural and oh-so-sustainable when I know goddamn full well that they're not.

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