#Cotton fabric by the yard

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[atheneergane]

The thing no one tells you about sewing is that it's really an exercise in patience. It's a collection of tedious tasks that all add up to something you personally created. The tedium gives you time to listen to a story, a podcast, music; or you can spend that time in your own head, thinking about the world, maybe mentally writing, etc. If there're other people present, it's a good opportunity for conversation.

Many handicrafts and creative outlets are like this. In order to complete something properly, you must take time to address all the little, humdrum tasks the project requires. A garment made from wrinkled fabric will never fit as well as one where the fabric has been pressed, but you have to be willing to press the fabric in the first place.

[seaseren]

All I want is cotton flannel that isnt too expensive and comes in a pack of precuts with a variety of colors and isnt just plaid. So actually I want a lot. But still

[mainstreamelectricalparade]

i just got some gorgeous green plaid fabric and i'm gonna make myself a cute little hobbitcore waistcoat 🥺 i'm so excitedddd i wanna make my wardrobe more whimsical <3 all the rachel maksy videos i've been watching lately are influencing me so hard and i am NOT complaining

[cantankerouscatfish]

wanna lay down but CAN'T bc my sheets are in the dryer bc I forgot them in the washer for a whole hour. life is suffering and then you die etc etc

[girlblocker]

you could make cute little bandanas with some of the fabric :D

yeah I could! that sounds better than my current ideas which are

1) tablecloth

2) circus tent

[makereadgrow]

RIP Joann, now what?

I wanted to make a post I could copy and paste and or link when I see folks asking where to buy fabrics when Joann is gone. I sew a lot, generally between 100-200 items a year and I don't do it on a big budget. Stores are not in a particular order.

Notions:

Wawak.com - start here, mostly stay here. Wawak is a supplier for professional sewing businesses and have the prices that show it. I will not pay for gutermann Mara 100 anywhere else. I buy buttons, tools, thread, and most elastic here.

Stitch Love Studio - this is where I buy lingerie supplies https://www.etsy.com/shop/StitchLoveStudio?ref=yr_purchases

Fabric:

Fabric Mart - this is one where you want to sign up for emails and never buy unless its on sale. They run different sales every day and they rotate. Mostly deadstock fabrics but I buy more from here than anywhere else. Fantastic customer service and if you watch you can get things like $6 wool suiting or $4 cotton jersey. https://fabricmartfabrics.com/

Fabrics-Store - again, buy the sales not the full price. Sign up for the emails but redirect them to a folder because it is TOO MANY. They stock linen or good but not amazing quality. https://www.fabrics-store.com/

Purple Seamstress - This is where I buy my solid cotton lycra jersey. They have other things, but the jersey is what I'm here for. Inexpensive and very good quality. If you ask she will mail you a swatch card for the solids. https://purpleseamstressfabric.com/

LA Finch - deadstock fabrics with a fantastic remnant selection https://lafinchfabrics.myshopify.com/

Califabrics - mix of deadstock and big brands, easy to navigate and always seem to have good denim in stock. https://califabrics.com/

Boho Fabrics - good variety, nice bundles. I have also gotten some really great trims from here. https://www.bohofabrics.com/

Firecracker Fabrics - garment and quilting fabrics, really nice selection and great sale section. I've bought $5 yard quilting cottons here several times. https://www.firecrackerfabrics.com/

Hancock's of Paducah - Quilting fabric and some limited garment fabric. AMAZING sale section. Do not sleep on the sale section. This is my first stop when buying quilting fabrics. Usually the last stop too. Not particularly speedy shipping. https://www.hancocks-paducah.com/

Itokri - This is something a little different. Itokri is an Indian business with incredible traditional fabrics. Shipping to the US is expensive, but the fabric is so inexpensive it evens out. I generally end up paying like $30 for shipping. Beautiful ikat and block prints. https://itokri.com/

Miss Matatabi - this is a little treat. This isn't where you go to save money, but there are so many beautiful things in this shop. Ships from Japan incredibly quickly. https://shop.missmatatabi.com/

Lucky Deluxe - Craft thrift store, always has an incredible selection and fantastic customer service. I need to close the tab fast because I never go to this website without finding something I need. https://www.luckydeluxefabrics.com/

Swanson's - the OG of online craft thrift stores, but I find their website harder to navigate. https://www.swansonsfabrics.com

Honorary Mentions: I haven't shopped at these places yet but I have had them recommended and likely will at some point.

A Thrifty Notion - https://athriftynotion.com/

Creative Closeouts - https://creativecloseoutsfabric.com/ being rebranded to sewsnip.com on March 1 - quilting deadstock

Hawthorne Supply Co. - I just got this rec and I think I need to not look too closely or I'm going to slip with my debit card. https://www.hawthornesupplyco.com/

This is not an exhaustive list of everywhere you can buy fabric, or even a full list of where I shop. There are SO many options out there in the world. You also need to think outside the fabric store box. I thrift men's shirt fabrics for quilts and sheets for backing fabric. I don't do a ton of in person thrifting and my local stores don't get a lot of craft materials but every thrift store is its own universe and reflects the community it is in. Go out and find something cool.

Oh and final note: Don't shop at Hobby Lobby.

[fabritualfabric]

Easy Ways to Brighten Up Your Space with Yellow Fabric Curtains and Accessories

Looking for a simple, budget-friendly way to refresh your space? Yellow fabric curtains and accessories might be just what your room needs. Yellow is a color that instantly evokes warmth, optimism, and energy—perfect for creating a cheerful atmosphere in any room of your home. Whether you're styling a cozy reading nook or updating your living room, a splash of yellow can go a long way in bringing life and light to your space.

Why Yellow Works Wonders in Home Decor

Yellow is a naturally uplifting color. From soft buttery tones to vibrant sunflower shades, it pairs beautifully with neutrals like white, beige, or grey. The best part? You don’t have to commit to painting walls or major renovations. Just a few well-placed yellow fabric pieces—especially curtains—can dramatically change how a room looks and feels.

Start with Yellow Fabric Curtains

One of the easiest and most effective ways to incorporate yellow into your space is with curtains. Yellow fabric curtains act like sunshine indoors—they help reflect natural light and add instant charm. If you’re unsure about going bold, try soft pastel yellows or light mustard tones for a more subtle, sophisticated touch. For modern or boho styles, look for patterned yellow curtains with floral, geometric, or ikat prints. These not only brighten the room but also add depth and personality.

Bonus tip: Use sheer yellow fabric curtains in smaller spaces or kitchens to let in light while adding a soft glow.

Accent with Yellow Accessories

Once you’ve introduced yellow fabric curtains, consider tying the look together with matching or coordinating accessories. Throw pillows, table runners, or even fabric-covered lampshades can help build a cohesive and inviting color story. These smaller fabric accents are perfect if you want to experiment with the color before fully committing.

Try mixing different textures—linen, cotton, or velvet—to add visual interest. For instance, a chunky knit yellow pillow on a neutral couch or a soft yellow tablecloth on a wooden dining table creates a cozy, balanced look.

Combine Yellow with Natural Elements

Yellow pairs beautifully with natural textures like wood, rattan, and indoor plants. To really make your yellow fabric curtains and accessories pop, add a few green houseplants or woven baskets to the space. These earthy elements ground the color and help maintain a warm, welcoming vibe.

Final Thoughts

When used thoughtfully, yellow can transform any room into a space that feels both fresh and joyful. Whether you choose pale lemon or bold marigold, yellow fabric curtains and matching accents bring a radiant energy that’s hard to beat. Best of all, these changes are easy to make—no major makeovers needed.

So go ahead—open the windows, let the light in, and let yellow brighten your day, every day.

[abigailspinach]

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Premium Muslin and Cotton Fabrics by the Yard at Honey Bee Mee Mee Fabrics

When it comes to high-quality fabrics for sewing and crafting, Honey Bee Mee Mee Fabrics is your go-to source for a wide range of materials by yard lengths, including muslin unbleached fabric by the yard, muslin white fabric by the yard, brown cotton fabric by the yard, and black cotton fabric by the yard.

Our clothes are perfect for quilting projects, creating custom garments, or embarking on a home decor DIY; our premium fabrics provide the ideal foundation for your creations.

Why Choose Muslin and Cotton Fabrics for Your Projects?

Muslin and cotton fabrics are timeless favorites among crafters and designers due to their versatility, durability, and ease of use. At Honey Bee Mee Mee Fabrics, we offer these materials in various colors and types, including unbleached and white muslin, and rich brown and black cotton. Here’s why these fabrics should be your go-to choice:

1. Muslin Unbleached Fabric by the Yard: A Natural Choice

Unbleached muslin fabric is perfect for projects that require a natural, rustic look. Muslin unbleached fabric by the yard is ideal for sewing garments, quilting, and creating crafts that highlight its raw, earthy texture. It is breathable, lightweight, and easy to work with, making it a favorite for fashion designers and DIY enthusiasts alike.

2. Muslin White Fabric by the Yard: Clean and Classic

For those looking for a pristine, versatile fabric, muslin white fabric by the yard is an excellent option. White muslin has a smooth, even texture and is ideal for projects with a clean and bright appearance. It can be dyed, printed, or left in its natural state to create beautiful, minimalist pieces.

3. Brown Cotton Fabric by the Yard: Earthy and Elegant

If you're aiming for a warm, earthy tone in your creations, brown cotton fabric by the yard is the perfect material. Brown cotton offers a rich, natural color that is ideal for both home decor and fashion. Whether you're making casual apparel, stylish accessories, or rustic home accents, brown cotton provides a sophisticated and cozy look.

4. Black Cotton Fabric by the Yard: Versatile and Timeless

Black cotton fabric by the yard is another must-have in any fabric stash. With its versatile, elegant appearance, black cotton suits a wide range of projects, from chic dresses and blouses to home decor and accessories. Black cotton can easily be paired with vibrant prints, textured fabrics or even left as the focal point of a design.

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Visit our website at https://honeybeemeemeefabrics.com to browse our full selection and get the best fabrics delivered straight to your door. Whether you’re a seasoned designer or a DIY enthusiast, our fabrics are designed to inspire your creativity and bring your projects to life!

[bomberqueen17]

How To Shop For Fabric Online

RIP Joann's. Now many places in the US no longer have a local fabric store, such as it even was toward the end.

There are some good posts going around about where to shop for fabric and craft supplies online, like this one for example. But if you're a beginner-to-intermediate sewist, and the way you've always shopped for fabric is by going to the store and touching it, it can be a hard, even cruel adjustment to suddenly be looking at a photo online and trying to piece together from the inconsistent descriptions what you're actually looking at.

So I'm going to just try to bang together a little primer on What Things Are Called, and how to educate yourself, so that you don't have to do what I did and just buy a ton of inappropriate stuff you wound up not being able to use for what you'd thought. And I will link to some resources that will help with this. This will be garment-sewing-centric but will, I think, be fairly broadly applicable.

The first thing is to look carefully at your desired project. If it is a commercial pattern, it will usually tell you what kind of fabric you need, but it will describe it in not the same words it's often sold under. If it is NOT a commercial pattern and you're kind of winging it, it's even harder. So here is how to start figuring out what you need.

Number one: Knit or Woven?

Quilting fabric is woven. If you are making a quilt, you want a woven. Most craft projects are made with woven fabric-- tote bags, upholstery, you name it.

Many garments are knits. T-shirts, yoga pants, cardigans. It is easy to know, because knits stretch. They can either stretch both ways (along the length and along the width) or just one way (usually along the width); this is confusingly either called 2-way stretch or 4-way stretch. Yes, stores are inconsistent. Look carefully at the description, and they will usually specify-- "along the grain" or "in all directions". Some garments require stretch only around the body-- maxi skirts, knit dresses etc-- while some absolutely need stretch both ways, like bathing suits.

No, you absolutely cannot clone your favorite knit t-shirt in quilting cotton. It will not fit. Most knit garments have "negative ease", meaning they are smaller than your body and stretch to fit. All woven garments have "positive ease", meaning they are larger than your body, unless very firm shaping undergarments are used.

SMALL EXCEPTION: There exist "stretch wovens", which are woven fabrics made with elastic fibers. These will be labeled as such. They are actually harder to sew with than regular wovens because they almost never have their stretch percentage labeled; they are NOT suitable for knit patterns. Avoid them, until you are more advanced and know how to accomodate them, is my advice!

Number two: WEIGHT.

How heavy is the fabric? How thick? How thin? This is measured in two main ways-- ounces per yard (denim is often 8oz, 10 oz, 12 oz) or grams per square meter. But many fabric retailers do not tell you a weight, they use words like "bottomweight" or "dress-weight", and you have to learn to figure out what they mean by that.

My lifehack for learning these has been go to go to ready-to-wear clothing retailers and see if they give the weights of the fabric their garments are made from. (Yes, I learned how to shop for clothes online instead of in-store years ago, because I am fat; some of us have had to do this a long time.)

If you are making a pair of trousers, you need heavier fabric than if you are making a blouse. Do not buy a floaty translucent chiffon to make your work trousers, it will not work no matter how cute the color is. Learn how the different weights of fabric are described, and you will improve your odds of finding what you need.

Number three: DRAPE.

Is it stiff? Is it fluid? Is it soft? is it firm? There are a lot of very artsy words used for this, and you may find yourself puzzling over things with a fluid hand, or a dry, crisp hand, or "a lot of drape", or maybe the listing doesn't describe it at all. This segues neatly into another technical thing, which is the WEAVE of the fabric. There is a dizzying array of words that tell you what kind of fabric it is-- twill, tabby, challis, chiffon, crepe, organza, georgette. And these will give you insight into the drape, and thus into the texture/usability of this fabric, and how suitable it may or may not be for your project.

I know it's a lot to think about but I am now going to give you resources for where to see all this stuff.

Number one is Mood Fabrics, which I can't believe hasn't been in any of the posts I've seen so far. They are a huge store in NYC's Fashion District and yes you can go there, but when I went there it overwhelmed me so much I left empty-handed. But what they have is AN INCREDIBLE WEBSITE. They have everything on there, and what's most important for you, their listings are INCREDIBLY consistent. They have VIDEOS of many of the fabrics, where a sales associate will hold it, wave it, stretch it, and tell you verbally what it is and what it's for, in about thirty seconds. HUNDREDS of these videos.

Whether you want to buy from them or not, go to Mood Fabrics, click around, find their listings, and read them. They will tell you fabric content, weight (usually gsm), often weave, they have little graphics that show you if it's for pants, dresses, shirts. And they have those videos. Look at the listings, watch the videos, and you will leave knowing a lot more about how to look at an online listing of fabric and know what you're getting.

Another really excellent website for this is Stonemountain & Daughter. I've actually not bought anything from them yet (they came highly recommended, but they're not cheap), but their online listings are, again, very thorough and very detailed. They always have a picture of the fabric with a fold in it held in place by a pin, which does more to help you understand the weight and drape of a fabric than any other static image ever could-- that visual, combined with how informative the listings are, has helped me learn to estimate fabric weights on other sites very effectively.

And here is a page that's ostensibly about how to wash silk, but I found it so useful because it gives such a clear image of what each weave/type of silk fabric looks and drapes like. I've never bought anything from these guys either, but this is a good resource.

Learn a little bit about fabric so you know what you're looking for, and you can begin to replace some of that "i just have to go and feel it in person" problem. There will still be trial and error, but you'll have a better starting place at least.

[brandkolab]

online fabric shopping

[angelacostumery]

i'm so glad you guys like this costume! it is one of my favorites. but I put my absurd pumpkin pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else.

...literally

anyway, here are some construction/project notes/wip photos in case you don't have 50 minutes to spare for the full video about making it!

inspo wise, The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg [this is an affiliate link] served as the major influence for this. the book is basically documentation of what this man and his son wore to major events in his life over a period of decades. he was getting ootd painted before it was cool.

the base pattern for the pantlegs came from another pair of ridiculous pants I made a few months earlier.

the paned portion is made from homemade piping sewn to strips of jacquard that are backed with twill tape to prevent fraying.

I made so much fucking piping for this oh my god. each of these strips was 20"+ long, both sides have piping, and these are the panes for ONE LEG. there were also sleeves. we're talking like 60+ yards of piping.

perhaps unsurprisingly, these strips were too thick to gather. so instead I had to overlap them to create the shaping over the leg. it looks OK but isn't ideal.

after this was done, velvet ribbon was sewn over the marked point to hold them in place.

oh! I also sewed a layer of mesh over the orange base fabric to dull it somewhat and provide contrast before sewing on the bands.

the upper portion of the pants was made from even strips of velvet and jacquard seamed together and fitted over a cotton base. the appliques were added to cover the fact the stripes meet at an angle at the side seam, and I sewed on orange sequins because I like sequins.

the happiness I felt when this fit was immense, I must say.

the bodice is two pieces, one for the front, one for the back. it laces up the sides with hand sewn eyelets. it wasn't very flattering as just an expanse of orange of the chest, so I added appliques to the front and back, too.

the black detailing around the top edge is made from varying widths of velvet ribbon.

the sleeves have similar elements of everything shown above--a paned upper portion, velvet ribbon trim, and a bit of lace at the cuffs.

unlike most of my projects the sleeves have no lining forcing the shaping, what you see beneath/between the panes is the chemise worn beneath this. it's made from the mesh used as an overlay on the pants with a jacquard/velvet ribbon collar which you can see peaking out above the neckline of the bodice.

oh! and then there is the pumpkin hat! there is a video on patreon about making this somewhere, I think.

and it's just that easy to live out your renaissance pumpkin prince/ess dreams!

[thecozycreationsart]

Indian Hand Block Print Cotton Sewing Craft Fabric, Natural Indigo Blue Color Floral Print Fabric, Sewing Fabric, Fabric By The Yard, INCT03

Look what I found on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1542190749/indian-hand-block-print-cotton-sewing?ref=share_v4_lx