Hey guys, it's Hayley at Seamwork. Every month we get a ton of questions about the fabrics that we choose for the samples.
So today I thought I'd give you a little tour of the August sample fabric.
Let's start with the Emmie top. Sso the Emmie top is a really romantic kind of flowing
peasanty style top and so for this I wanted to choose fabric that was really drapey and soft and
worked with all of the elastic that's going on with this garment at the neckline and on the sleeves.
So first up I have
this Japanese tencel poplin. I
really love this fabric. You can see it's really
drapey, but what I love about the poplin is that it's densely woven
so it's nice and opaque so you're not gonna have to worry about
showing too much underneath.
Next up, I have this viscose crinkle crepe.
I would liken this most to like a cotton gauze in its texture, but you can see that it's a lot more
crepey than a typical cotton gauze. I just think that this fabric is so
dreamy and ethereal.
A little warning though. It is a little bit more on the sheer side
so you might want to plan in advance to make sure you have something you want to wear underneath. Or not.
You don't have to. And
lastly, I have this really lovely
double gauze. I think that double gauze is pretty well known in the sewing world.
Now this is pretty typical of what you'll find at your local
fabric store.
This is straight out of the envelope. It hasn't been washed.
I'll probably wash this up before we sew samples and it will soften up and
almost get kind of this really
fluffy,
luxurious hand to it. I think it's gonna be really great. What I love about this fabric is it has these little tiny
embroidered metallic dots
And I think it'll just like catch the light and give it that something special.
So let's talk about the Kenzie skirt. The Kenzie skirt is a really classic pleated skirt.
It's about a midi length, and it has knife pleats.
I think the kind of fabric you're going to look for will depend on the look of the pleat you want.
So if you want something that's really crisp and pressed and perfect,
you can do something that's gonna press really nicely. I think wool is a great candidate for that,
or something like cotton that takes really high hot temperatures. But if you want something that's a little bit
more flowy and organic, uou can go with something like a georgette that isn't gonna crease super heavily.
We have two
fabrics on that spectrum today for me to show you
So first I have this really
amazing
blend it is a cupro tencel
linen blend and what I like about it is that it has like the best qualities from all of these different fibers.
The cupro gives it like this really nice silky sheen the linen
provides like a little bit of a slubbiness and then the tencel just makes it hang like
amazingly
and when I like just take my fingers and
run a crease along it without any heat it already
takes it pretty well, so I know it's gonna pleat
alright, you can kind of do this test at a fabric store to see how the fabric is looking. And
then we have this really
yummy silk georgette for the pattern hack this month. We teach you how to do like that quick lining
so I wanted to do something sheer so you can kind of like show off the
like transparency and opacity and I thought I'd just be like a fun little detail.
So georgette is really cool. It's a little bit more opaque than chiffon, but not
totally opaque either.
The yarns that it's made from are made of really really highly twisted and that's what gives it kind of this
almost crepe like
sheen, that makes it different than a chiffon
and
last but not least
can't forget to line our sheer skirt. I have
This really great
bemberg fabric
I'm a fan of bemberg lining
because it's a little bit easier to sew, you can see that it has slightly more body than like a
crepe de Chine
lining would have and I think that it just makes it a little bit easier to sew with and something like this with the pleats
it's gonna stand up to the body of this fabric pretty well.
So those are fabrics for the August issue of Seamwork magazine!
If you have any questions, you can pop them in the comments below and I'd be super happy to answer them for you
Thanks for joining me. Happy sewing!