Back before I had Home Ec, when I still played with Barbie dolls a bit...my mom had this nifty set of patterns for Barbie clothes. And a lot of worn-out kids' clothes. And a sewing machine. And not a lot of money. So, she made doll clothes for my sister and me. She used all sorts of fabrics...except for old tee shirts. I asked why, once, and she showed me.
Her sewing machine did not play nicely with jersey knit. Not even a little. Where it didn't stretch the material, it puckered. The only stitch that kinda worked a bit was the zig-zag.
Want to hazard a guess what a lot of the material I have on hand is? Yup. Old tee shirts. The other fabric I have a lot of is worn-out jeans, or the legs from cut-off jeans.
I already knew that my sewing machine works really well and without complaint with denim. Multiple layers thereof, even. I wasn't so sure how it would do with tee-shirt material, since it lacks a zigzag stich, and I lack a zigzag attachment.
On a whim, I pulled down a few old tee shirts out of my stash. And I tested out how badly the machine would stretch and/or pucker the tee-shirt material.
The answer was: not at all. I had no problems with it whatsoever. I've got so many old tee shirts in so many pretty colors... and a lot of boring colors, too.
(And maybe I can get the pixie to stop using socks as Barbie mattresses if I make her some from old tee shirts. Practicing.)
That has reduced the new meditation form's financial burden considerably.
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