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Yuwa Sweet Grid

Yuwa’s Sweet Grid has become as ubiquitous in my sewing projects as Kei’s Honeycomb Dots. You can stock up at Charm Stitch (aka Mira and Westie on Etsy).

Not sure when these will be out, but I’m loving this collection of (vintage reproduction?) small-scale geometrics from Kei called Geo Style. There are a few more prints, and all the prints come in several colorways, and you can see them all here.

Japanese Fabric of the Week: Fabric Tales

I’m in love with lots of the traditional-Japanese-designs-with-a-modern-twist at Fabric Tales but this wavy stripe in particular. It’s expensive, but just look at how great it works as a dress.

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Misc. Tessellations – Houndstooth

I guess you could call this an abstracted houndstooth? It’s not a tessellation at all but it seems derived from them. I love this kind of spare geometric design — I’ve been into Peter Nencini and the iPhone game Eliss lately and this reminds me of them. It’s from Vintage Touch on Etsy. The just-short-of-2-yard-piece [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Four-Way

The Daily Swatch features a piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically. Please add your own examples of the theme to the True Up and/or Vintage Fabric Flickr pools. This week we’ll look at the last type of pattern direction, four-way. These are going to mostly be your grid-based geometrics — squares, [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Two-Way

More fancied-up stripes. Vintage cotton fabric, 2 1/2 yards, $42 from Dewitt & Co.

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — One-Way

It’s a little trickier to find geometric one-way designs but I think I’ve done it. Although this print could be turned upside down or sideways and still work, it wouldn’t look exactly the same — the pink/orange/brown rainbows would be frowning and the yellow/black rainbows would be smiling. From Robotic Kid on Flickr.

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Tossed

A couple geometric tossed patterns for you today. Up top, a closely packed design of interlocked leaf-like triangles, a feedsack from Antique Fabric, that still shows some background color. Then below, an example of a densely packed design. This mod 60s cotton is from Niesz Vintage Fabric (shop) on Flickr.

Daily Swatch: Cross Stitch/Pixel

Vintage feedsack from Atomic Sisters on Etsy.

Daily Swatch: Cheater Prints

Here are two shots of a c.1950s cheater print at Antique Fabric. I just adore all these plaids and checks together. It’s 36″ wide fabric, $14/yard, 2 available. Also, I just decided that there are enough cheater prints out there to do another week of them. So keep them coming!

Lecien Color Basic Vol. 2

I wasn’t sure you’d want to see a whole slideshow of just stripes and polka dots in different scales, so I just included a couple images here. But you can see the entire set of Lecien’s Color Basic Vol. 2 in my True Up Flickr account or on the Lecien website. I think I’ve mentioned [...]