fabric....

I am going to be perfectly honest.... JoAnn's needs to TRAIN their workers in CUTTING FABRIC because they are HORRIBLE at it. HORRIBLE. They won't even tear it on grain to make it ON GRAIN, nope they cut like a crazy person all over the place. Not one of my pieces was remotely even or straight. The lady even tried to re-align the fabric.... BY CUTTING IT, not even smoothing it out first, because yes, all she had to do was smooth it from the fold a little and it would have been fine.. but no, this was the result instead... A. she was off grain 1.5" and B. she had a little trouble with the whole STRAIGHT line idea. I mean it is understandable for my brother to do this, or someone who is not trained in fabrics or sewing at all...but the store is called Jo-Ann FABRICS. You would think they could get it right. I would also understand if she was rushed... no again, it took 15 minutes to cut 10 pieces.

Just remember, before any project you must get your fabric "On Grain", otherwise it will not hang properly. Tear or cut on the grain on each side of the fabric, lengthwise, then match selvages and pull/tug on the bias hard and long until all sides match up. It isn't fun, but it is necessary, and you have to do it with ALL fabric from anywhere, but when you buy fabric it should be torn/cut on grain for you already so you don't have to tear off 2 inches that you PAID for, and could possibly have really needed. Plus when it is never cut on grain and stays on the bolt for too long it gets way messed up and is a nightmare. Anyways enough about that.

I got a close up of Brenna's dress. AMAZING. It was inspired by Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress.