How much fabric?

My new friend Gwen from Gwynhug.com has introduced me to these wonderful little reference tools she has created!

As a fabric lover, I’m sure you can relate to the experience of unexpectedly coming across a must-have fabric and not knowing how much to buy.  After my experiences of way-overbuying too many times, I finally decided to do something about this, and I have created a series of small, plastic reference cards that summarize the fabric requirements of thousands (literally!) of sewing patterns – broken down by garment type, garment size and fabric width.  

• Sometimes the perfect fabric catches your eye and demands to be bought, but you do not have a particular pattern in hand. How much should you buy?

•  These reference cards will help you estimate as accurately as possible, by providing tables that summarize actual fabric requirements from real patterns, broken down by outfit size and fabric width.

• Over 3,000 patterns were used to build the tables, including patterns from Simplicity, McCalls, Butterick, Vogue, Burda, Neue Mode, Kwik Sew, Hot Patterns, & New Look.

I have sets based on patterns for (a) women’s clothes, (b) women’s plus sized clothes, (c) men’s clothes, (d) baby & toddler clothes and (e) children’s clothes. 

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