My mother-in-law is an amazing seamstress. She doesn't make clothing, tho, but draperies and valances and pillows... and awesomely cute bags and purses, which she sells at a craft market once a month in Pensacola. (I've bragged about her work here before!)
We were visiting a few weeks ago, and I fell in love with a messenger bag she'd created. Well, I fell in love with the *style* - the fabric, not so much. ::grin:: So she said that if we could find fabric I liked, she'd make me one for Christmas. Later that evening, we headed to her workshop and pored through her piles and piles of fabric. I saw a couple of things I liked, but nothing really spoke to me. So I went on an online shopping adventure, and found a fabric I adored at an online fabric wholesaler. WOOT!
Credit card in hand, I placed my order with abandon (I think the grand total was a whopping 15 bucks with shipping). I waited anxiously for the material to arrive, and - voila - a few days later there lay a package on my front porch. I eagerly pulled the fabric out... and...
Not at all what I was expecting. At. All. The print was HUGE - the flowers which in the online pictures looked to be an inch across were closer to 8 inches... way too big to be on a bag. So it's in reserve in her shop, and I hope someday to find a use for it... pillows, maybe, or a valance?
So the moral of this story is - know what you're buying before you plunk down the money. ::sigh::
I think I'll head to Fabric and Fringe this weekend!
