Printed cotton Gauze fabric

If you guessed that my green gingham here is the cheap stuff, you'd be right.Double Gauze. This lovely stuff is a favorite of Japanese fabric designers. It's essentially two layers of cotton gauze (a beautiful, ethereal fabric in its own right) woven together to form a two-ply fabric. Because of the double layer action, it's opaque and fairly firm, but it still has the softness of gauze. Excuse the wrinkles here, I couldn't bring myself to press it just for the sake of throwing it over the dress form.Silk and Cotton Blends. This isn't really a type of fabric, but it's an amalgam worth mentioning. I love silk and cotton blended together and I've never regretted a purchase of this fabric. It has the best properties of each fabric. Silk/cotton blends come in many different types: charmeuse, voile, poplin, sateen, etc. Radiance is a brand I've seen often, and they sell it at Fabric.com.

For my Crepe, I've picked out two silk/cotton blends from my stash: a black and white zigzag print for the body, with the hot pink voile for the sash:

Does this help? Let me know if you have questions!