Hello!
I love your blog, I was just wondering where you get your soft/fluffy fabrics for plushees?
Thanks! I'll give a rundown of all the places I get plushie fabric (all of these are US-based because I am US-based) A lot of my fabrics, especially faux fur, faux sherpa, and fleece, I used to get from Joanns. Now that they're closed, I've heard Michaels has more fabric selections available, but I haven't tried using them yet When I order online, I get minky from CaliQuiltCo (they have an Etsy and also their own website). They are the only place I have found that lets you buy minky in less than a yard increments, and they let you get it in fat quarters or fat halves, which is a much more usable size for me (aka 18" by 1/2 WOF or 36" by 1/2 WOF instead of 9" by WOF and 18" by WOF). They also have some long-pile minky (the stuff I use that's kinda faux fur but shorter than the bright green faux fur I used for the quilt monster) I also buy Berkshire Blankets (specifically their Extra Fluffy line) for a fabric that is like midway between a long-pile minky and a faux fur, and so so so soft. They cost about the same as minky would for that quantity (though get them on sale if you can, they pretty regularly go on sale), but it is a lot more at once than I usually buy of any one color of minky. I just really love the way they feel (they are doublesided fabric, though, so they can be a bit of a pain to work with since you can't make marks on the back of the fabric and I would not use it for small projects). They are slightly less stretchy than minky, but close enough that they work interchangeably in most patterns, and in my experience they don't really fray on the edges (same with minky; both will shed loose fibers from the edges that were cut when the fabric was, but once those are gone they don't fray in my experience) I get some fabrics, usually in blanket form, from other like random stores like Big Lots or things like that if I find a fuzzy blanket in a color I really like, but that's not often. I order a few fabrics from Spoonflower (just placed an order last week during their sale) but it's like once ever few years, Spoonflower is expensive. I use it for space prints from firesidetextiles and frosting with sprinkles prints for making donut plushies, as well as the occasional print and sew pattern I also was given like three trash bags and a plastic tote full of minky and minky-adjacent fabrics from the local quilt shop back in California because at the time it was popular to back quilts in minky, but none of the quilters in the shop made stuffed animals so they had no use for the scraps. It's been five years and I still haven't used up all that fabric lol
