ISO a particular fabric

[Claire]

Can anyone help me?

I need a particular fabric...
I want to make this: http://www.emblibrary.com/el/elprojects ... h_070709_C

and I need the sand/beige/lt brown fabric to be able to be velcroed on to... ie I want velcro on the backs of all the figures to stick on to the main part of the calendar.
BUT I dont want to use felt cause I figure it will really quickly get tatty.

so is there a fabric that is like the soft part of velcro but can come in sand colour and wont pill up like felt???

I was reading this blog about making owie dolls that could velcro sticking plasters too
http://www.ikatbag.com/2009/11/owie-dolls_25.html and she found some 'velour' but I've never seen anything like that here.
does suedecloth let velcro stick to it.

sorry very long winded question..

[Bella's mama]

Our pin boards at school are made of a fabric that the the hook velcro sticks to it. It is not hessian, much softer. Can try and find out for you what it is if you want?

[Claire]

ohhh.. yes please!!

[Bella's mama]

Will do some research.

Would be very interested in a set of the embroidered figures if you were to buy them and make them...and pay you for doing it...they're cute!

[Minty]

Hook velcro also sticks to wall sound insulation fabric which they sometimes have at Spotty (like the stuff on the walls of lifts). I made some height charts for niece and friends with little figures that could be moved all over it. No idea whether Spotty would have any now (or what the real name of it is), but I bought it there on a roll a few years ago.

[Bella's mama]

Hook velcro also sticks to wall sound insulation fabric which they sometimes have at Spotty (like the stuff on the walls of lifts). I made some height charts for niece and friends with little figures that could be moved all over it. No idea whether Spotty would have any now (or what the real name of it is), but I bought it there on a roll a few years ago.

Maybe this is it...it is a lot like that.

Can't ring school as it is holidays,but will do some research for you tonight Claire.

[Claire]

interesting... maybe I need to take a little bit of velcro to spotlight and stick it on everything...

[Minty]

interesting... maybe I need to take a little bit of velcro to spotlight and stick it on everything...

That's what I did. Very surreptitiously of course.

[Claire]

gah.. got some suedecloth but found that velcro doesn't stick to it.. so back to square one.
I couldn't see anything at spotlight that looked right.
anyone got any other ideas ??

[Kaz]

The suedecloth I used lets velcro stick, or maybe it depends on the type of velcro.

Wouldn't velcro stick to anything loopy?

[Claire]

Yeah.. I presumed it would stick..! but when it arrived today I realised it isn't actually loopy... I wonder if suedecloths vary??

[Kaz]

Just had a look and the suedecloth I have is loopy. The velcro sticks quite well.

Perhaps you should ask people if the fabric they are selling is loopy I'd love to see their faces.

[goose]

Claire I saw something at Spotlight that might work, it was over near where the felt and nz fabrics are, sort of a woollen felt fabric. Great explanation eh

[Claire]

did I hear you say I should go back to spotlight?

[dodgums]

Will do some research.

Would be very interested in a set of the embroidered figures if you were to buy them and make them...and pay you for doing it...they're cute!

Me too LOL