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Member since 5/8/03
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Posted on: 6/25/05 2:15 PM ET
Are you looking to make some great lingerie?

The Fabric and Notions Co-op has a co-op going on silk weight white Malden Mills Power Dry for $7.00 a yard.

I've really enjoyed being part of this co-op. I've gotten some great fabrics at great prices!

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Posted on: 6/25/05 3:52 PM ET
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Looked at the MM store and it's $5.99. Or is that something different?

Nina
  
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Posted on: 6/25/05 5:20 PM ET
Looks about the same to me - pointelle which means some texture. I'll ask the co-op coordinator.

Susan
  
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Posted on: 6/30/05 5:30 PM ET
Oh, I just saw this...The pointelle is thinner, isn't a jersey knit so it has less stretch, isn't silky and catches on other clothes more than the silk weight. I dreamed up the first PD custom color purchase so I had to do all this research, that's how I know.

Our first coop was done at $4.60 (what we figured the costs to us would be with no extra at all) and Jenny, the purchaser, lost big buck on shipping and in spoiled fabric, somewhere, somehow, so the the new purchaser doesn't want to be in the same boat. Also the PD prices have gone up. I do know that if I were to do it over again, I certainly wouldn't do a coop where I made nothing on all the work I did!!! It demanded (for various reasons) unbelieveable amounts of time to coordinate that coop. Just don't want you all to think that the two fabrics are the same and that the coop Ressy is running is making out like a bandit...she's making some, but not much on these coops, I'd say. And as reliable as she is, I certainly am happy to purchase through her. She's cool.
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