fabric from Egypt

sound yummy? ;-)

A friend of mine is going to Egypt in January and has asked if she buys
fabric there, if I will make her a quilt. She'll pay me for my time, plus -
I get to keep leftovers. So, I'm figuring a baby quilt would do.... ;-)

Seriously now.... she asked if I only work with 100% cotton and what did I
think about their cotton silks. Now, I'm sitting here drooling over the
colours that she could bring back. I'm not an earthy colour person, but I
can only imagine how powerful those colours are from there so I'm looking
forward to working with them. I'm imagining startling copper, deep greens...
but I never thought about the type of fabric. It sounds like a high quality
cotton silk would be a dream to work with - but I don't want to steer her
wrong either in case it's not.

What should I tell her? Stick with cottons, or if the cotton silks are nice,
to go with them?

I can't believe how much I'm looking forward to seeing what she brings back!

Marijke, in cold..... Montreal

"Kate Dicey" wrote in message
...

Cotton silk IS 100% cotton: it's just treated to behave and look like
silk.

Well there you go then!! LOL I had no idea...but then again, there are lots
of things I have no idea about. ;-)

It's yummy to work with and washes well, but is inclined to
fray. I've used it for garment making (some of the Romeo & Juliet
dresses were cotton silk). Just plan to use wider seam allowances (1/2"
rather than 1/4") and LOTS of quilting so it doesn't shift about and
fray inside the quilt.


Thanks so much!! I'll tell her and I'm really looking forward to this.

Marijke

Please ,I would love to see photos no matter which fabric is chosen. It
sounds very exotic. trish in Sydney

From: " Pete 'n' Trish"

..... It
sounds very exotic .......

One of the highlights of my trip to N'ville a ew years ago for the AQS show
was seeing the fabrics a young man from Africa had for sale! They were LOVELy
and so different in their designs and colors. I still have several nice sized
pieces of stuff I bought from him and I do treasure them and use them sparingly
so that they will last :-)). Very exotic, as you say and so different from
what we can find in the LQS! CiaoMeow ^;;^
..


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