[Echo-chan713]

and takes up a LOT of room

[Fey]

Oooooooooh yeah, and now it's not all that compressible...it's gonna be interesting just moving it unworn in the car....

[Echo-chan713]

LOL that would be a youtube video to watch, I'm making a loli wa kimono dress for my dotta using the same brocade as my Dotta Dress

[Fey]

sounds interesting :)
now to work on my dress...bleh

[Echo-chan713]

I know and I've never worked with brocade before so it's going to be interesting

[Fey]

if you have access to one you should use a serger on the seams...or at least french seam it, that stuff loooooooves to fray out.

[Echo-chan713]

We don't have a serger but what's a french seam, I've heard of a poor man's serger seam

[Fey]

if you google french seam it'll explain it better than I can, but yeah, even a poor man's serger seam may not be enough if it's the cheap borcade found at joanns

[Echo-chan713]

yea it's from joanns

[Fey]

yeah, frays like it's trying to escape, so those are my recommendations.

[Echo-chan713]

ok, thanks. I've heard of the french seam at NDK, but not really in detail.

[Fey]

I've used it a few times on borcades, antique satins and some sheer materials, it's the most effective to prevent the seams from fraying out.

[Echo-chan713]

I made drawstring bag out of brocade and it failed because of the fraying

[Fey]

hence my personal loathing of that material...if I can avoid using it I do.

[Echo-chan713]

well, brocade feels amazing, then my dick of a friend burned all the edges of my dotta dress that was made out of brocade then it itched like hell so I had to cut all of the burned edges off

[Fey]

::wincing:: attempting to melt the edges I assume? that never works since at least a small percentage is rayon, which is a man-made silk alternative that doesn't melt.