First Homemade tank

**vorpallemur** · 8th September 09, 08:27 PM

Looks pretty good to me. good job.

**Midsmed** · 15th September 09, 03:54 AM

Fine looking kilt you got there!

**SFCRick** · 15th September 09, 05:31 PM

nice job

**Paul** · 18th September 09, 05:13 AM

very good work. Keep it up!

**dfmacliam** · 18th September 09, 05:32 AM

Wow, you have done a very good job.

**D.A. Guertin** · 18th September 09, 07:35 AM

Bart,

If this is the same as what I've been finding lately, there are *heaps* of it around here... It's marked as a Black Stewart, PV, 43" from what I can recall, and every Jo-Ann's I've been to has a bolt of it. Doesn't seem like it's moving at all. The pattern I'm picking up on (no pun intended), based on trying to hunt down more of the 96/4 wool tweed in my thread below, is that each store gets one bolt of each fabric, so buy what you can when you find it!

Originally Posted by Bart_In_A_Kilt

No.. I meant are there any more bolts left at that fabric store that you got yours from.

**vorpallemur** · 18th September 09, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by D.A. Guertin

Bart,

If this is the same as what I've been finding lately, there are *heaps* of it around here... It's marked as a Black Stewart, PV, 43" from what I can recall, and every Jo-Ann's I've been to has a bolt of it. Doesn't seem like it's moving at all. The pattern I'm picking up on (no pun intended), based on trying to hunt down more of the 96/4 wool tweed in my thread below, is that each store gets one bolt of each fabric, so buy what you can when you find it!

It depends on the fabric. There are, roughly, three sorts of fabrics at places like Joann's. The first are staples, which you can generally expect to find (with some seasonal variations: seersucker and linen are summer fabrics,), with colorways changing from time to time. Second are seasonal collections (which is what the black stewart is), which the chains have made or order for the appropriate season, and which may or may not be back the next year. (In some cases, you can get the store to order you more of these.) The third is stuff they've bought from a converter. These are usually seasonally appropriate, but what they get depends on what other people don't want. The decline of american apparel manufacturing means there's a whole lot less of this than there used to be.