SVS about your fabric allergy. I can relate and sympathize because I also have the same thing. Mine was diagnosed a couple of years ago but it was through some backtracking of things I had done, where the little pimples started (on my lap where fabric sits when you're at the sewing machine) that I realized it was the fabric that caused it. After about 2 months of itching and looking like I had some dreadful, contagious disease which had escaladed to huge welts all over my body; steroids and ointments were the only help for my problem besides staying away from a "particular" fabric. I am very cautious now about what touches my skin, where the product (or fabric) is manufactured (China) and things of that nature. Sorry to say....it is something we have to live with but on the plus side, we can still quilt.