Organza is a sheer fabric often used in dress. It has a very natural flow, and does so beautifully. Those who know what organza is may think "it does not look curly!" Those who have worked with organza may have an idea as to why I think it is the curly hair of fabric.
I've worked with stretchy fabrics, such as jersey knit, lycra types, polyester blends. I've worked with fabrics that fray with the slightest touch. Think shiny Halloween costume fabric. The name of that fabric escapes me.
The stretchy fabrics curl and shift. The fabric that frays...once you cut it you need to either set it down and leave it alone, serge the raw edges, or get to work because the very second you lay your fingers on it, it will fray. While these fabrics are akin to a child with a slight stubborn streak, organza, in all it's airy beauty, is the high-maintenance not-going-to-do what you say child.
How is that like curly hair? I have curly hair. When it's at the perfect length, the lose curls fall just right. It doesn't take much, just some gel, scrunching, and I'm good to go. Back when perms were in, people paid big bucks to have hair like mine. Much like I paid $7 a yard for the organza.
Organza is pretty on the bolt. You look at it and get all kinds of ideas as to how you can use it to give just the right airy touch just by capitalizing on its natural flow. Let it pool at your feet, and it does so with grace.
But try to get it to behave against the grain? Curly hair.
As I've said, people used to pay bucks, now they spend time with their gels, balms, and curling irons to achieve curly hair. But when you have it naturally and you want it to perform against the grain? Organza.
I'm making curtains out of pink organza for Hannah's room. I thought it would add something a little different to what she has, a nice contrast. Pressing the cuffs for hems going along the grain is like doing so with any other fabric. Doing this against the grain was like getting a clump of my curly hair to curl the opposite direction.
Using higher heat on the organza will burn the fabric, using stiffen it and likely have it stick to the iron, maybe also burn it. Each time I pressed, the cuff sprang back open as if it was spring-loaded.
As some point, you have to give up, take the fabric to the sewing machine, and stich inch by painful inch...curling and tucking a cuff as you go. And no, for me, hand-stitching is NOT an option.
Hours have passed, I have one more side of against the grain hemming to go. I was supposed to have it finished today, along with assembling a bookshelf, before Ted comes home from Atlanta tomorrow.
And I will wear my hair curly.
I've worked with stretchy fabrics, such as jersey knit, lycra types, polyester blends. I've worked with fabrics that fray with the slightest touch. Think shiny Halloween costume fabric. The name of that fabric escapes me.
The stretchy fabrics curl and shift. The fabric that frays...once you cut it you need to either set it down and leave it alone, serge the raw edges, or get to work because the very second you lay your fingers on it, it will fray. While these fabrics are akin to a child with a slight stubborn streak, organza, in all it's airy beauty, is the high-maintenance not-going-to-do what you say child.
How is that like curly hair? I have curly hair. When it's at the perfect length, the lose curls fall just right. It doesn't take much, just some gel, scrunching, and I'm good to go. Back when perms were in, people paid big bucks to have hair like mine. Much like I paid $7 a yard for the organza.
Organza is pretty on the bolt. You look at it and get all kinds of ideas as to how you can use it to give just the right airy touch just by capitalizing on its natural flow. Let it pool at your feet, and it does so with grace.
But try to get it to behave against the grain? Curly hair.
As I've said, people used to pay bucks, now they spend time with their gels, balms, and curling irons to achieve curly hair. But when you have it naturally and you want it to perform against the grain? Organza.
I'm making curtains out of pink organza for Hannah's room. I thought it would add something a little different to what she has, a nice contrast. Pressing the cuffs for hems going along the grain is like doing so with any other fabric. Doing this against the grain was like getting a clump of my curly hair to curl the opposite direction.
Using higher heat on the organza will burn the fabric, using stiffen it and likely have it stick to the iron, maybe also burn it. Each time I pressed, the cuff sprang back open as if it was spring-loaded.
As some point, you have to give up, take the fabric to the sewing machine, and stich inch by painful inch...curling and tucking a cuff as you go. And no, for me, hand-stitching is NOT an option.
Hours have passed, I have one more side of against the grain hemming to go. I was supposed to have it finished today, along with assembling a bookshelf, before Ted comes home from Atlanta tomorrow.
And I will wear my hair curly.
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