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My Fabric Designs allows you create your own custom fabric by the yard! Eileen Roche, a powerhouse in the machine embroidery industry, co-founded the company to give crafters more choices when creating projects involving fabric.
My Fabric Designs Blog
1y ago
Want to learn how to sew but not sure where to start? or maybe you just need a bit of a refresher after not sewing for a few years? Below we put together a list of important basics to get you started, some resources you can use for more specific information on a type of sewing, & some beginner-friendly sewing projects that’ll help you with practicing some of those stitches & techniques that you’ll be using across many of your future sewing projects!
Basics to Learn
Top 5 Hand Stitches for Garment Sewing by Professor Pincushion
Different Types of Thread for Sewing by National ..read more
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1y ago
See how we create Halloween-themed fabric to make oven mitts that are super fun & maybe just a little bit creepy! We break down the process in this blog on how we recreated our sewing pattern as a digital template, used that as a guide to drawing out our characters, and then printed them out on one of our FAV fabric options at MyFabricDesigns, our Premium Cotton!
Choose an Oven Mitt Style
There were two different ideas we wanted to create into our spooky Halloween oven mitts, a pumpkin & a ghost! We thought about how we would want these in an oven mitt and decided that they would be be ..read more
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1y ago
Check out how we designed these super fun custom lunch bags, great for you, your munchkins, or even as gifts! These are completely customizable when you can choose the designs, fabric, colors & more! Once you’re done designing your bags, just sit back and wait as we print your custom fabric creations!
Materials
1yd Custom Printed Premium Cotton Fabric (Self Fabric)
1yd of Insulbright or preferred Interfacing
1yd of Cotton Lining or PUL fabric
Hook & Loop tape – 4 1/4″ per bag
Sewing Machine
Coordinating Thread
Scissors
Fabric Marking Tool
Pins
Lunch Bag Pattern – Click HERE to Print ..read more
My Fabric Designs Blog
2y ago
“Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.” — Chris Rose
Follow along with us as we create this GAUDY, multi-print, brightly colored top for those who are known to be the life of the party at every Mardi Gras! We’ll show you how we chose our pattern, made it into something we could work with digitally, and added all the colors & designs our hearts could desire!
Choosing a Pattern
When you’re creating “Cut & Sew” projects like we are, it would be best to ..read more
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2y ago
Working on your next winter wear project but not sure which fabric to use? No problem! See the list we put together below of our favorite fabric options to have your own design printed on!
We have written a description and put together a short clip to highlight some of the characteristics of each of our fabrics that are great options for winter. In each video, you will see the fabric pulled and draped to highlight the stretch, drapiness, or body of each one. We hope this provides a great reference to choose the best fabric for your next winter wear project!
Stretch Knit Fabric
Polyester French ..read more
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2y ago
Do you have a movie buff or book lover in your life? Not sure what to get them this holiday season? Why not create something featuring quotes from their favorite stories! Follow along as we focus on creating a custom seamless print using only words!
Sizing
As always, we need to start off with sizing. We will be working in the Pattern Creator today, which is built to automatically create seamless repeats by taking any image placed outside the workspace edge and completing the repeat of that image on the opposite side of the canvas (as shown in the image below). The repeated part of your image i ..read more
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2y ago
Do you often have a hard time finding the perfect fabric for your doll projects? Find the right print but not in the right size or find the right size but not in the right fabric. At My Fabric Designs, you can choose ANY design from our Shop page or a design you have created and have it printed on any of the 27 fabrics we have to offer in the scale you need! You choose the print, the size, and the fabric! We even have a Project Creator, which we use in this tutorial to fill a single yard of fabric with an assortment of prints. Since dolls don’t need a ton of fabric, we made use of all the fabr ..read more
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2y ago
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Decorating is one of the highlights of the holidays. Create a stocking with your children’s names, make curtains with dancing reindeer, design a personalized custom tree skirt. With custom printed fabrics the possibilities are endless! In this blog, we’re going to show you how to create a tree skirt using fabric printed at MyFabricDesigns.com
Tree Skirt Sizes
To get started, you’ll need to know the height of your tree to choose the best size skirt in the correct proportions. We’re making a tabletop tree skirt, but you can see the chart below for a r ..read more
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2y ago
There are not many things as wonderful as food lovingly prepared by those people you hold dear. Why not create an indelible connection to those foodie memories with a Recipe Towel printed with your favorite family recipe? Perfect for a gift or a keepsake of your own; we make it easy!
Sizing
We’ll need to decide on the size of the hand towel to get started. Below you will see the information we have gathered as common sizes for hand towels. Whichever size you choose, know we’ll need to add 1″ to the height and 1″ the width of this measurement when setting up our workspace in a later step. This ..read more
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2y ago
Add an extra level of personalization to your quilt by making the back just as beautiful as the front! You can design it to coordinate with the prints and styles seen on your quilt top, add family member names, or your business logo if it’s for a store sample.
Sizing
As always, we need to start off with sizing. Below you will see the information we have gathered as common quilt sizes and the amount of fabric needed to back each size. Whichever size you choose, know we will be adding 4″ all the way around the finished quilt size measurement. This is to make sure you have the added fabric necess ..read more