Comfortable easy-fit clothing for Lycra blend knit and woven fabrics with instructions for professional results

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Transition to Spring 2012 Fabric Collection

All Transition to Spring Fabrics

Purples & Greens

Black, White & Red

 

This holiday season I offer a brand new fabric collection for you to peruse.  At a time of year when everything is usually winding down I have chosen instead to gear up for a new year of creativity in design and sewing. Getting excited about sewing is easy for me when I see my new fabric collection take shape, and I hope it will have the same effect on you. Each fabric in the collection has been carefully selected and edited to reflect the style and quality that you have come to rely on.

Favorite fibers and fabrics of this collection are a new lightweight bamboo “terry”, three Missoni style “crush” fabrics of amazing color combinations, a superb Ponte double-knit that is second to none, and an awesome offering of special Eileen Fisher rayon/LYCRA  jerseys. The sweater knits are finely knitted and beyond delicious as are the unique prints. These fabrics are also chosen for their ease of sewing and I am very careful to choose fabrics that are not difficult to handle and encourage alternative ways to sew garments by incorporating many production sewing techniques into my patterns.  

  • Transition to Spring 2012 Swatches: This swatch packet contains more than 80 quality knit and woven fabrics. It also includes the fabric information sheet with the content, care, width, stretch and recovery of each fabric. We offer these swatches to give our customers a chance to feel, stretch and see each fabric in hand before buying online.
    Special Offer: Each swatch packet comes with a coupon for $5.00 off of you next order of $25 or more!
  • Fabric Information Sheet [PDF] for Transition to Spring 2012. (Fabrics are listed in the order of the swatches.) You can print the PDF pages with all the fabric information from the current collection, including the % of stretch and the type of recovery the fabric offers and then order from the photos in our online store.

 

Remnant/Bolt End Fabrics-
50% off!

Discontinued and end-of-bolt fabrics from past collections are marked 50% off!

  

Clearance Fabrics - 30% off!

Remaining Transition to Fall Fabrics are now on sale.

Shop Sale Fabrics
Shop Remnants/Bolt Ends    

 

 

 

Fabric Descriptions

A Note About Recovery

Imagine holding the fabric with two hands, stretching it, then letting go.

  • Snappy fabric will snap back to its shape quickly and not show any indication that it was stretched.
  • Good recovery fabric will recover but not snap when released.
  • Soft recovery fabrics will slowly recover its original shape with no snap at all.

The snappier the fabric the less wearing ease it will offer. So, if you are using a snappy fabric, your pattern needs to be a bit larger (around) to give more room. If the fabric has soft recovery, a garment will fit larger.
The best way to get the fit you want using knit fabrics is to:

a) Use the Perfect Sizing Worksheet to figure out the ease in the pattern, fabric and take your measurements into consideration.

b) Make a sample garment using a knit with similar recovery.

c) Choose the pattern size using your upper bust measurement and add to the side seams and pin fit the garment side seams.

 

 
 

Need help deciding which fabrics to order? What pattern to use? Call or e-mail Christine for help.

Due to the limitations of the Internet, the color samples are approximate only.
To obtain swatches, please order the current Swatch Packet.
(Swatches dependent on availability)