Is this really sherpa?

[botannie]

I just got a bunch of sherpa in the mail, that I ordered through a diaper sewing webiste. Thing is...it just looks like white sweatshirt material. I was thinking it looked more like what kissaluvs are made out of (especially because the website said it was from the same mill).

Ok, I may be sewing impaired here -but is sherpa just plain old sweatshirt material, and if so, why don't they just call it - *sweatshirt material* like the rest of the universe?!

Help!

[DixieChick]

Wash it a couple of times. It does look lots like sweatshirt fleece at first. But you put the yummy part on you and not outside. Good stuff.

[twouglyducks]

Sherpa looks, to me, like clumpy fleece. :LOL I put the terry side out on garments and touching babe on diapers. http://www.alibaba.com/photo/10262995/100__Polyester_Sherpa_Fabric.jpg
Here's a picture. However, I've bought sherpa before and got it and it was different. I didn't like the different stuff as it wasn't "sherpa" like I was expecting.

[CraftyMommaOf2]

i think the content matters as to the texture. kwim? is your sherpa 80/20?

[botannie]

Davina, that's what I thought sherpa looked like too. This looks more like, the soft fuzzy part on the inside of a sweatshirt. Maybe it will look different when I wash it. I'll try and post a pic.

It's still soft and nice. Just not what I was expecting, and I paid alot for it, when I probably could have gone down to fabric mart and paid 4 dollars a yard for the same thing, yk?

[norcalmommy]

Do you have a link that would show a pic? Just curious...the sherpa I have gotten in the past has been very textured and lumpy on one side, not smooth like the inside of a sweatshirt. It sounds like maybe you got cotton terry or frenc h terry? :hmm

[botannie]

Ok, here is a pic. It looks bumpier in the picture for some reason. Maybe because its magnified. If I had to compare the texture to anything it would be microfleece, but its definitely not mf.

Front:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/botannie/Kobessoccerpictures105.jpg

Back:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v607/botannie/Kobessoccerpictures106.jpg

[The MadPatter]

I think the problem is that there are a number of things loosely called sherpa.
1. Sweatshirt material
2. fake fur you make lambs out of.

I used my 20X botany eye piece to look at some of the fabric samples I got from Green Textiles close up, and here is what I found:

The sherpa (pile) is made from plied yarn (at least 2 ply, maybe more, hard to tell) and the ends of the tufts are cut to different lengths. The back of it looks like regular old stockinette stitch. I think its the remnants of the yarn that make the bumps. The ends are fluffed out.

The velour, on the other hand, is made from single ply yarn, and is cut to a single length.

Patti
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