Beautiful Fabrics for Crafting

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Beautiful Fabric

I'll be honest.  I can't really sew very well.  So, initially, my facination with beautiful fabrics was a bit anticlimactic.  So why am I interested?  Beautiful fabrics are everything beautiful scrapbook paper is but with texture.  The good news is there are so many things a creative crafter can do with fabric that doesn't require sewing at all.  I'd like to share some of the best resources on the internet to find gorgeous fabrics along with resources to inspire you to actually do something with your new finds.  Or you can just be a fabric collector. That's okay too.

Websites to Help Your Fabric Mojo

Once you've spent hours (days?) shopping through all the gorgeous fabrics you can find online, you'll have some time to wait for your purchases to arrive in the mail. Why not grab a snack and head on back into the time-sucking worldwide web and find some inspiration for how to utilize your new fabric finds.

Inspiration on Amazon

There are so many ways to get inspired to use fabric that don't involve clothing and some require minimal to no sewing at all. Here is a list of books that promise to get you out of collecting mode and into creating mode. Make sure to add your own favorite fabric related books too!

Bend the Rules with Fabric: Fun Sewing Projects with Stencils, Stamps, Dye, Photo Transfers, Silk Screening, and More by Amy Karol

Bend the Rules with Fabric: Fun Sewing Projects with Stencils, Stamps, Dye, Photo Transfers, Silk Screening, and More by Amy Karol

You've bent all the rules with sewing, so now what? more...0 points

Fabric Art Collage: 40+ Mixed Media Techniques by Rebekah Meier

Fabric Art Collage: 40+ Mixed Media Techniques by Rebekah Meier

Everything you ever wanted to know about mixed-med more...0 points

Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters by Susan Stein

Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters by Susan Stein

A comprehensive source of all the newest and most popular more...0 points

Fun-to-Wear Fabric Flowers by Elizabeth Searle

Fun-to-Wear Fabric Flowers by Elizabeth Searle

Fashionable fabric flowers seem to be blooming eve more...0 points

Fabric Jewelry: 25 Designs to Make Using Silk, Ribbon, Buttons, and Beads by Teresa Searle

Fabric Jewelry: 25 Designs to Make Using Silk, Ribbon, Buttons, and Beads by Teresa Searle

In this sumptuous new collection of projects, Tere more...0 points

Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur(r): For Quilting, Papercrafts, Mixed Media Art 27 Techniques & 14 Projects Revolutionize Your Craft Experience! by Lesley Riley

Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur(r): For Quilting, Papercrafts, Mixed Media Art 27 Techniques & 14 Projects Revolutionize Your Craft Experience! by Lesley Riley

Add luminous color and exotic effects to art quilt more...0 points

Fabric Leftovers: Simple, Adaptable Ways to Use Up Scraps by D'Arcy-Jean Milne

Fabric Leftovers: Simple, Adaptable Ways to Use Up Scraps by D'Arcy-Jean Milne

25 big ideas for little pieces of fabric * Bags, bowls, more...0 points

One-Yard Wonders: 101 Sewing Fabric Projects; Look How Much You Can Make with Just One Yard of Fabric! by Rebecca Yaker, Patricia Hoskins

One-Yard Wonders: 101 Sewing Fabric Projects; Look How Much You Can Make with Just One Yard of Fabric! by Rebecca Yaker, Patricia Hoskins

With more than 200,000 copies in print, Storey's One-Skein more...0 points

Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Postcards: Keepsakes You Can Make & Mail (Fast, Fun & Easy) by Franki Kohler

Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Postcards: Keepsakes You Can Make & Mail (Fast, Fun & Easy) by Franki Kohler

Create one-of-a-kind mailable treasures for greeti more...0 points

Last-Minute Fabric Gifts: 30 Hand-Sew, Machine-Sew, and No-Sew Projects (Sewing) by Cynthia Treen

Last-Minute Fabric Gifts: 30 Hand-Sew, Machine-Sew, and No-Sew Projects (Sewing) by Cynthia Treen

Cynthia Treen has a way with fabric. She can pick up more...0 points

Layered, Tattered and Stitched: A Fabric Art Workshop by Ruth Rae

Layered, Tattered and Stitched: A Fabric Art Workshop by Ruth Rae

The step-by-step instructions found in Layered, Ta more...0 points

The Latest Blog Posts about Fabric

Keep up to date on what the blogosphere's top crafters and artisans are saying on the topic of fabric. This RSS feed is update daily. Have you blogged about fabric lately?
Eastex Medical Fabrics Hold Air and Can Be RF Welded, Heat and Sonic Sealed
HOLBROOK, MA, Feb 15, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Eastex Products, Inc. is introducing a new line of air holding TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) coated nylon fabrics that are ideal for manufacturing inflatable products and gel packs using various ...
Waldwick couple tests water in TV's 'Shark Tank'
Melissa and Kevin Kiernan of Waldwick will pitch their idea for a fabric garbage can cover on ABC's 'Shark Tank' on Friday, Feb. 17. The fabric lids attach to the cans with Velcro. Garbage is strewn all over the lawn and the lids for the family's four ...
New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: Thom Browne's Tim Burton moment
The showing of Thom Browne's fall and winter 2012 women's collection started with a eulogy delivered before a row of 10 open, coffin-like boxes, each occupied by a gray-suited model whose face and and hands were covered in gauzy white fabric.
Juniper exec gives inside look at QFabric
When you break those bonds, you see a half-rack switch is basically a set of line cards that connect up with a fabric. And those fabrics allow any-to-any port connectivity with fixed latencies, and the box works at its scale. So if you could break that ...

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