Pre-washing fabric before cutting is the sewing step most often skipped by beginners — and the one most consistently regretted. It takes an afternoon. It is genuinely important...

There is a difference between a fabric that looks summery and a fabric that feels summery — and for anyone sewing their own clothes, understanding that difference is what...

Most fabric guidance for summer focuses on what to wear — cotton, linen, viscose, the reliable natural fibres that have kept people comfortable in warm weather for centuries...

You are reading through the fabric recommendations on a Fabrico pattern — or any dress pattern — and you see "viscose" in the list of suitable fabrics. You might...

You have chosen your pattern. You know what colour you want. You are standing in the fabric shop — or scrolling through an online fabric retailer — looking at...

This article goes through the comparison systematically, category by category, so that by the end you have a clear sense of which fabric is right for your next summer...

Every spring, without fail, the same colours appear. Navy blue and white in every window. Linen in cream, natural, and pale sand on every rail. The Breton stripe on...

There's a moment in the fabric shop when you fall for two pieces of fabric simultaneously — a deep teal and a warm terracotta, a crisp white and a...

Walk into any fabric shop in May or June and you'll find yourself facing a wall of options: florals in every scale, geometrics in every colour, stripes running in...

Here's a useful distinction that doesn't always get made clearly enough: there's the question of which colours suit your complexion — your skin tone, hair, and eyes — and...