In her Intro to Fabrics lesson, Brooks Ann links to an article she wrote for Threads Magazine called How and Why to Swatch Fabrics. She includes swatch cards in this article, so I printed some up and went to work swatching my little fabric stash.

None of these are fabrics I’ll be using during the class, but it’s good to have a complete catalog and to get some practice ahead of the swatches I’ll be looking at for the class.

First up, a couple of quilting fabrics I used for my first sewing projects with my new machine (I think I got it in 2020):

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The these are both woven cotton, one with a blue moth print and one with a seafoam green background with white manatees on it. I used the first to make napkins and the second to make a pillow.

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The next two fabrics I bought for making pillows, too, but so far I’ve only made one. These are also quilting cottons. One is a black background with Pokémon in white circles, which I used for the pillow I posted about earlier. The other has dragons and white stars on a navy background. I’m planning to make a pillow for my sister with this one.

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The last couple of swatches are a celestial Jack Skellington quilting cotton I’m planning to use to make my sister a pillow and an interlock knit tarot card print I’m planning to use to make myself a maxi skirt based on the Brit + Co Sewing 101 class instructions.