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Fabric Shopping Online

  • Fabric Fail

    I love me some linen, maybe even more than cotton, at least for garments.  And every year when the weather warms up, I feel a yen for more flowy, soft, linen…

  • Binge

    This is only one of SIX (or maybe more) giant piles of fabric I’ve begun amassing for my next book.  I have some really (REALLY) amazing apparel fabrics on order, and…

  • How to Shop for Fabric Online

    I’m delighted today to be guest posting for Rae over at Made By Rae as part of her Spring Top Sewalong. I have really, really been enjoying seeing all the entries…

  • Twitteriffic

    I love Twitter. Really, I do. It’s like microblogging–all those ideas that don’t have time or depth enough to develop into full blog posts, but that WANT to get out. Those…

  • Swatch Thursday: Jay McCarroll

    Yes, that Jay McCarroll. He’s done two fantastic collections of quilter’s weight cottons for Free Spirit since leaving Project Runway, and this is my favorite: Woodland Wonderland. I adore the color…

  • Swatch Thursday: Mendocino

    This Heather Ross collection has been around for a while now, but each time I look at the prints, I am reminded how loverly I think it is. Mendocino, a collection…

  • Poor Man’s Silk Screen

    Over at craftgrrl, there’s a fantastic screen print tutorial. A step above the freezer paper stencil, a step below a full-scale screen printing shop in your basement, it’s a great technique…

  • Swatch Thursday: I must be hungry.

    Cupcakes! Check out the print, then check out Cake Wrecks, one of the most popular foodie blogs on the web–and easily one of the funniest. Then come on back for a…

  • Changes to the Westminster Fabrics Pricing Policy

    Posts are zipping around the internet about the new pricing policy Westminster Fabrics is putting into effect beginning Feb 1 of this year–just a couple weeks from now. The company has…

  • Swatch Thursday: Something Completely Different

    So, I was tempted to throw up more rock-n-roll fabric, but enough with the theme, already. Instead, here’s a new arrival in the shop, from Amy Butler’s Daisy Chain collection: Amy…

  • Swatch Thursday: Rustic Guitars

    I love a good theme. Like, when I completed my Master’s thesis on acorns (no lie) I gave all my professors a teensy oak sapling sprouted from acorns that had fallen…

  • Swatch Thursday: Groovy Guitars

    Featured today for Swatch of the Week: Groovy Guitars in Lime, by Michael Miller For those of you newer to quilting, crafting, and 21st century fabric sales, there are a few…

  • Swatchtastic

    Loads of sick babies at our house.  Only thing keeping my spirits up is this: Not even in the shop yet–am too greedy to have it all to myself!  Ah, well,…

  • Wow, Etsy, Thanks!

    Y’all, can I just say how great the experience has been so far at Etsy? What an amazing group of people, all of them truly looking to promote handmade and produce…