Originally Posted by
TanyaL
You had better call and find out for sure what they mean. I would hate to spend money on fabric just guessing on what the instructor wanted. Tans sounds like a color. Shirtings sounds like a light weight fabric for men's shirts. Neither is anything I've heard of in any quilting book, magazine or discussion. Let us know what the definition turns out to be.
I am curious, too, what shirting really means. There's an online fabric store (denverfabrics.com) which offers 527 shirting fabrics. I have also seen the term 'shirting' used in connection with some civil war and early-1900s reproduction fabrics, and Hancock's of Paducah also features some modern shirting fabrics. The 527 samples at Denver Fabrics run the gamut--cotton, seer sucker, stripes, small prints, plaids, solids, etc. Bet they could offer a definitive definition Looking forward to learning what that might be. ;->)