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Fashion Fabrics Club, fabric haul

Last week I placed an order at Fashion Fabrics Club, also known as Denver Fabrics.  Often when you order fabric online, you do not get a good impression of the look and feel of the fabric.  You have to trust the listing and the merchant.

Because FFC allows you to order below a yard on most of their fabrics, it is an incentive to try as much as you can for their great prices.  Once your order arrives, take a discrete inventory of what you found worth buying more.

As a craft person, nothing really goes to waste.  You do have to log your stashes so that you remember what you have, what to reorder, and what is basically a miss!

Code: 
green=hit, something I would definitely order more of in the future.
yellow=neutral, not sure must see it on model
red=not likely, not at all what I expected, poor online description
U/A=unavailable, sold out, was not included in the shipment

There were definitely way more hits than misses.  I am pleased with this shipment.  There were so many greats in this order, I think it is best to review the neutrals, just so I pay special attention to these fabrics and give them a fair shot at rising to green!

48912 Dark Ivory Slub.  I was definitely looking for something in the ivory family, but unfortunately one of FFC's major faux pas is its color coding.  They could use some help in that department with visual imaging.  The fabric has a look of wheat which is a bonus.  But it is ribbed.  We will see! 

63393 Soft Blue Check Shirting.  A little thin, but we shall see.  I am sort of 'light green' on this one.  

and the fail...

62807 Heather Charcoal Jersey Knit.  Looking at the picture, I did not expect ash/charcoal...the kind of way charcoal looks after it is has burned...A huge fan of gray, year around, I know my gray and this one did not live up to the expectation at all.  This one was such a disappointment, I may just abort the notion of finding it in another attempted search.

If I decide to give FFC a chance to redeem themselves on 'heather charcoal', I might go with 63823 Heather Charcoal Cotton Jersey Knit.  The name is close, but the color is very different.  

There is my review of this haul.  

BFC Ink Dolls

Looking to expand the collection, months back I started perusing the internet, specifically searching for dolls with movable joints. In the industry they are referred to as "15 points of articulation" or some high variant of that.  This essentially means that the doll has the capabilities to be posed in 100 or so positions.  This feature is essential to expand my athletics/fitness line for dolls.

This does not mean that 5 point articulation dolls, the industry standard for dolls have to stand still! Absolutely not. If my dolls could talk, they would tell you that get a workout on just being the perfect Journey Girl model.

My niece, named Journee asked me what I thought about these dolls.  I told her that I was very interested in them but I struggled to find the right one and a little saddened that I missed out on Scholastic's endorsed the BFC Ink Doll by MGA. The Best Friends Club went away around 2011, just before I purchased a new machine (2012) but my muse was not back yet!  Oh the regret!!!

As I shared before, great things do not last and when they go they increase in value.

I am very excited to inform you that I found Noelle, a friend to the original BFC Ink Collection of Calista, Kaitlyn, and Addison, in the order shown below:

For now, here is Noelle, in the box.  I found her on eBay in the box.  She delivers on or around October 3rd! 

She will receive a review once she arrives!  If she fits the idea that I have in mind, she will be adopted out to one very fortunate doll collector!