FAYE

Hey OLD is OLD......& I am gathering info up on it & plan on getting there at 99..get real crabby, sock it to everyone who did me wrong over the years, so the next 20 yrs are going to be real busy ones.

Dkm

Lowe's carries screen mesh and yes you can sew on it. The type I bought was plastic and was around $5 for a pkg.

BizyStitches

FabricDepot.com has the mesh for beach bags. If you watch the home page many days they have 30% off orders. Hope this helps.

Alondra

Car people use Coke to dissolve acid caked on batteries. You can use it to clean your toilet, and believe me, you won't have a mineral ring around the toilet when it sits for a while. Think what it does for your stomach (not even counting thinking about what the high fructose corn syrup does for your weight!). Jerry Baker, the garden man, uses it (or some other sweetened soda) in some of his homemade yard/garden treatments. Ah, yes, Coke is very useful - just don't drink it! :-D

Judie

I made some of those mesh bags last year.. I was able to find black mesh at Wal-Mart much cheaper than at the fabric stores.. I think they also carried blue and brown at the time.. It was called Pet Mesh.. Hope you can still find it... It worked up very nicely..

distar2

hi. i'm fairly new here but had to reply to your question. i was a store manager for a fabric store for 24 years. yes, washing denim i have seen will soften with coke. i remember it from about 12-15 years ago.
an older outdoor fabric called textilene is what you sound like you are looking for in making the mesh bags. call you local home decor fabric stores and besides the outdoor decorator fabrics like sunbrella the may still carry textilene. it will work well if you can't find this pet mesh or don't want to use the window screening.

Debra Mc

Saw some cheap mesh laundry bags at Walmart tonight. You can unsew them & use the mesh to make the bag. Holes are bigger so sand will fall out better.

dmackey

Hi Sculpyfan,

My LQS has the mesh in a few different colors because they have a class for beach bags using the mesh. Here is the link for the class:
http://www.classschedule.net/cgi-ser...=19995&locate=

You can contact the owner, [email protected] and she can tell you what she has and a price for it.

Diane

garysgal

That's funny! I am one of the older folks and I never heard of washing anything with Coke. I don't even remember my Grandma or Great Grandma doing it. Maybe we were too poor to waste it!!

seasaw2mch

Just so you know, Coke was originally made to clean car engines so it does a lot in the way of cutting through grease and other such stuff. I would think it also would soft the jeans, not so much by removing the dye as softening the fabric fibers.

We used it a lot in the shop to clean battery cables when they were croded from battery acid. (sorry , my spelling is so bad even spell check can't figure that word out)