I've been working on the accessory job I mentioned before and I've managed to go through a while 8oz bottle of glue just on one design! It is about $6.99 at Ace Hardware. I love the stuff. Weldbond is one of my fav glues.
Since I used so much, and it was mostly gluing fabric to ribbon, I was wondering if it would make more sense to get some fabric glue at work, since I could use a coupon to make it cheaper. A bottle of Elmer's Fabric Glue caught my eye. I got the 4 oz bottle and went home to go and do some more gluing.
When I used it I found out that my bottle needs to be opened all the way, or you only get a tiny amount of glue. You can squeeze until you feel like you are going to burst the bottle, but nothing much comes out. Another thing I thought was weird was the smell of it seemed familiar. It wasn't until later when I realized what it smelled like.
I have some glitter-glue that is glitter in a gel kind of glue. This one smells just like that! It also acts like it too. It seems to be a white glue mixed with a clear gel glue. It also says on the bottle that it takes 24 hrs to dry. If you spread it thin, it goes clear before 24 hrs, but remains a bit tacky feeling. Not tacky feeling that makes it feel sticky, but kind of like rubber that is grippy. I have a bit of ribbon where it oozed out a bit and it still has that tacky-rubber feeling.
I've a bit torn about it. I do like it, and it seems strong enough, but it takes so long to dry. It also takes a bit to grab (which is more important to me than the actual dry time) but that would give you a bit more time to mess with things.
I'm going to have to play around with it some more to decide if I would use it for my things.
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