If the fabric you want to pick for bell bottom jeans is lighter than the jeans fabric

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Can you use a stabilizer or some other stuff on it? I ask because I heard in a how to tutorial that if your fabric is to light it';ll fold and buckle and be more like an accordion than bell botom shape. There's this adorable fabric at hancocks it's raggedy anne and andy, and then there's numbers too and I want the fabric for my pants so much, but it's light weight and the pants are kind of heavy weight.

lampshades

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maybe it's not possible or maybe it's just that my google-fu is broken...

i have 2 wire lampshade frames that i'd like to cover with...something.  i was thinking of buying ribbon & wrapping it around & around the frame (top to bottom) like the strips of plastic that were originally on it. 

will that be safe?  i don't want the ribbon to get overly hot or anything.  my other thought was to buy a cheap fabric that i liked & cut it into ribbon-like lengths with pinking shears (i don't currently have a sewing maching so pinking shears are my favorite tool :P) & using that more or less the same way.  

are there any other no-sew options i'm not thinking of?  will these ideas work? (i can't afford trial & error here...lol this is a one-shot deal so it needs to be pretty cost-friendly)

thanks in advance!

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Two new Tori Amos bags.

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In case you didn't know... Hobby Lobby has a sale on McCall's patterns. ALL of them are only $.99 through Oct 3rd. I sat in there for about an hour today combing through the catalog. I never really understood why patterns were so darn expensive, anyway.

Screen printing shirts

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So I'm looking at screen printing shirts for my brother's band, but not really sure where I should by the t-shirts. I checked on ebay and google shop for cheap packs of hanes t-shirts but am not having any luck. Any suggestions?