Anyway, the fabric I bought on eBay was green. I had my dad pick out which one he wanted a mask made from and he wasn't excited about any of them, but finally chose a dark green.
Which he hasn't worn since I finished it.
I'm sure it's the color, so I set out to find something he'd wear. After some searching for in-stock items, I ended up on the Joann Fabrics website. They had elastic! At this point, I was still waiting for my supposedly-in-California-but-obviously-shipping-from-China elastic to arrive and we were using bulky yarn for the masks which presented its own problem.
So on the Joann website, I ordered a couple of fabrics, a couple of different elastics, and I needed a pin cushion, so I threw one of those in my cart, too.
It started at check out. One of the elastics were unavailable. I deleted it from my cart and increased the number I wanted on the other elastic and checked out. Then the emails started to come from the store.
First one: No elastic. All out of stock.
Second One: No fabric for Dad, out of stock
Third One: The second fabric is cancelled. Out of stock.
That left me with the pin cushion. I was concerned that they'd charge me $7.99 shipping for a $2.99 pin cushion, so I tried to go the website and cancel it. I found that orders can not be cancelled. Items can be returned after the fact. Great.
As it turned out, it was okay. Joann's charged me less than a dollar to ship the pin cushion. That was good. And I have a real pin cushion, not one of the mini versions that came in my sewing kits.
I ended up buying a darker fabric on Etsy. It did arrive and it's sitting, waiting for me to sew it up.
