The fabric is what I would call “quasi-ordered” at the moment.

It has been “allocated” to me but I have not received an invoice to pay, so until I get that I don’t know a final cost or time frame, I am hoping to get the fabric within 2 weeks.

Here is what I have ordered:

Normal balloon fabric (know by some as “dura life” IIRC)
Ye0286 428.6mts (234.4m + 194.2m) (Yellow, see gallery for color sheet)
Na0693 318.8mts (50.7m + 213.2m + 54.9m) (Navy, same as the “Fat Boy Balloons” WOFYL navy)

Heavier stronger fabric, equivalent to HTN90 or Hyperlast
Na0693 126.3m (Smallest roll avaiable)

This is quite a bit more fabric than I need, or wanted, but it’s this or nothing.
My plans state that I need roughly 520m of fabric but thanks to some advice from Adam, I added a 35% “whoops” margin.
This still meant that I only wanted 350 yellow, 320 navy and 50 strong navy. The stronger fabric was intended to be used as a “lip” on the parachute and for the top panel, but with the length I am getting now, I could probably do it 3 panels down. One thing to mention that I am not doing this the 100% cheapest way I can, it works out to about $1k more for this stronger fabric, it may seem like alot right now but its all relative, I can afford it and I can have the piece of mind to know that if I trash the envelope I will last that little bit longer.

The fabric is really the starting line for me, once that is paid for its all guns blazing, but until I know that the fabric is on it’s way to me, I don’t really want to start doing much.

Hopefully I will receive an email in the next few hours on how to pay, as I usually get emails from Gelvenor around this time.