Originally Posted by
WMUTeach
Goodness, rryder, I never thought of looking for thread on e-bay! Congrats on getting the "ugly" fabric out of your stash! It takes courage sometimes to do that.
the key to the ugly fabric was overdyeing it. Changing the color helped immensely. There were two pieces, one was 4 yards of hideous brown- that’s the one I used for the backing. The other was about a yard of ugly pink- it is now back in stash, but will get used now that it’s a purple-ish color. Both were given to me, so other than my cost for the fabric paints that I use as “dye” they were freebies.
on thread- Check out used thread lots on eBay. There are some very good deals to be had if you go through a lot of thread like I do.
Rob