Wearing my grey linen sunhat around has garnered compliments and a sense of accomplishment ... and has prompted a new sewing request from hubby. He wants me to make him an "Indiana Jones style" hat from the leftover brown canvas to match his coat.
One problem: I am out of buckram. Hancock says they will no longer carry it, and the buckram at Hobby Lobby is way too thin and light. I had bought what I had at WalMart ... before they shut down the fabric sections. There is still one local WalMart that never had its fabric and sewing section shut down, but it's across town and a royal pain in the (*donkey*) to visit, but I am left with no choice but to brave their hosed-up parking lot and screaming howling (*children*) as a last local resort before springing for buckram through online sources. Can you tell I consider a trip to WalMart to be an ordeal nowadays? (Insert cranky Mom rant about how I would have been backhanded in public for even the milder half of behavior I see in EVERY WM visit ...) (Insert car-owner rant about how all but one dent in my vehicle has come from the WM parking lot ...)
I guess for some things, a woman just has to grab her ovaries and do it, ordeal or not - to quote one of my better Sergeant Majors from my army days. Bleh.
It's either brave WM, or a minimum order of 5 yards of 60" wide heavy millinery buckram for white ... which would probably last me more than a decade. I'll need lunch first.
UPDATE: Online order it is. What's left of that store's fabric and craft section isn't worth the drive anymore.
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