Gifts for the Dressmaker: Fabric Mart
Since the holiday season is upon is, you may be thinking of gifts for the dressmaker. It is not always easy to buy them fabric unless you actually can go shopping with them. Usually, a dressmaker or tailor has a specific garment they have imagined and they are willing to allow it to remain imaginary until they can find just the right fabric. But it is easy to get them a gift certificate, so see if they have a favorite local fabric store.
I thought I would feature some of the on-line places I go shopping this week. Fabric Mart offers discount fabric of all kinds from the ridiculous to the sublime. I have found lovely wools, silks, and cottons here, as well as utilitarian fabrics like Polarfleece. But you need to sort through fabrics that are discounted precisely because they are odd prints, less appealing fibers, what have you. Really nice fabrics can come and go quickly as they don’t always get a large stock of them. So check New Arrivals, and use the categories and the filters to look for what you have in mind.
I give you here some things currently in stock: whimsical Liberty of London print in cotton, a silk scarf panel in a mosaic print, and a boucle plaid in a wool blend. Something for everyone, you could say.
For more info, go here: https://www.fabricmartfabrics.com/
Gift card info is at the bottom of the page off to the right. They also have a swatch club with special offerings, but I haven’t tried this one.
