Quick and Easy Tips on Buying QUALITY FABRIC from Dad Sews

Have you ever wondered if there is a

quick

way to tell if I am

buying

quality

fabric

or cheap

fabric

? Well, today is your lucky day because I have the answer for you. Greetings to sociopaths as always. I really appreciate you stopping by. Well, just a couple of notes. Before we started, we had a really amazing live episode with twisted needle textiles. In fact, today I'm featuring some of their fabrics and you know, we just passed 8,000 subscribers so in the next few weeks we're giving away a Jukey Sewing Machine and I have more news on that this week so what you want to make sure you do is subscribe on youtube.com.

Like Tad Zoe on my Facebook page and I'm also on Instagram at Dad Sews. We'll be spreading news throughout the week about how you could win a free Jugee sewing machine. That's so awesome, okay, you're here to learn about the fabric. Go for it. The

quality

of cotton is determined by the length of the fibers, so the more fibers you have. You will have a more durable fabric or garment, but that doesn't mean you need thick cotton for it to last a long time, you just need those threads to be tightly packed, so as long as it is thin and dense, you are really going to have a durable fabric density. what you're looking for now before we talk about a

quick

way to check your fabric in the store.

I want you to stay because we will also talk about knits and fabrics. You have a different trick to make sure the quality is good, so when you pick up a piece of cotton fabric from the store shelf, you should feel it and think if it feels too thin, brittle or rough. All three are bad. sign, think of it like baseball, three strikes, you're out, you don't want that stuff now, what you're going to want to do is take the fabric, unfold it a little bit and hold it up to the light, can you see through your fabric now, that doesn't mean you can see light through your fabric if you can't see light through your fabric you might have something thick like canvas or upholstery fabric but can you see through your fabric now if you have Been to the big box store and you go to their 99 cent or 50 cent rack you'll know what I'm talking about you hold the fabric up to the light and you can see the beams you hold the fabric and you can see your child through If you don't want this to be a very good quality piece of fabric, yes I can see the light.

You might be able to make out the shape of one of the light boxes in my studio, but that's about it. I can't see anything else, it has a nice feel to it, you can hear a nice snap, it doesn't stretch which I don't want it to do and that's the quickest way to determine the quality of a cotton fabric. Now, let's tune in, here's a beautiful, beautiful stretch fabric made with a twisted needle. textiles, it's actually part of the fabric that we're giving away later this week and next, but it's really something incredible. Look at the stretch there now.

You can also do the light test for knitting, but knitting is more dense. packaged so that you don't see much through it, there is a better way to determine if the fabric is of good quality, so what you will want to do is grab a corner somewhere you won't be using it if you already bought it and you want to stretch that fabric and let it go, it needs to close back, you don't want it to stay stretched now again if you already bought the fabric, don't do it in the middle where you can use it, but go to a corner, stretch the fabric and it should jump to back, it should have a lot of fit, it should feel solid in your hands and that's how you know you're getting quality. density in your knit fabric, now I have three terms that you should memorize when you buy fabric and that is the texture, the drape and the shiny texture, which we have already covered, that is the density of the fiber, that is the elasticity of the fabric that I want to check it before

buying

now.

The drape of the fabric is how it will lie on things. You can't always determine this in the store because many times you need to run that fabric through a proper wash cycle first. It will have the right fall. It's been wrapped around a piece of cardboard for three six months, who knows, so you won't necessarily be able to see the proper drape of the fabric in the store. The third term is a shine. Now I shine. It is in the eye of the beholder, you know it when you see it and when you feel it, it looks shabby, it looks cheap, it has transparent fabric, it can match the texture, the shine is the beauty of the fabric, the more extra shine it has. pop of color and you want to make sure that that fabric isn't already faded, you want to make sure that you're not buying fabric that's been sitting in front of the store where the windows have been shining for three weeks to three months and it's faded.

When you take it out, you can unfold it to see if the outside has deteriorated compared to the inside, so I always recommend feeling the texture, looking at the curtain and taking a good look at the shine. I hope you enjoyed those

tips

. If I forget something, I would do it. I'd really like to know, so leave a comment below, give it a thumbs up, and like it. I would really appreciate it if you would share this video on Facebook with your sewing friends. I think here are some

tips

that can help you choose new fabrics.

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