Introducing “Dreamscapes,” a fabric pattern featuring dreamy cloud landscapes on a deep blue night sky. This new design is perfect for quilting, crafts, and home decor. Get ready to lose yourself in Dreamscapes. Continue reading
Category Archives: Fabric
Prettify your autumn with this Vintage Apple Harvest fabric
An original Sew Jewish fabric print to capture the feeling of a vintage apple harvest for your autumn home sewing projects. Continue reading
21 Passover-worthy fabrics inspired by the desert from indie designers
If you’re hosting a Passover Seder this year, bring new energy to your table by creating unique table linens with prints designed by indie designers on the custom fabric website Spoonflower. Continue reading
Hebrew Letter Quilt Toppers – Easy as Aleph-Bet-Gimmel
Aleph, bet, gimmel. This fabric design features the 22 letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet and three Jewish symbols: a dove, a Star of David, and a hamsa for good fortune. When I started offering pre-printed fabric panels of this design in the SewJewish Etsy shop I announced it in the newsletter, but only when those … Continue reading
Where to Buy Matzah Print Fabric
Online sources to order matzah print fabric for your fabulous Passover projects. Continue reading
Your Fabric Friday Selection: “Wheat” Kona Cotton
This Fabric Friday’s selection is Robert Kaufman Fabrics’ Kona Cotton in the color “Wheat,” to coordinate with the matzah print fabric you probably already have in your stash. I walked into one of my local quilt shops this earlier this week, not sure if I would find a color that would coordinate well with my … Continue reading
Orange you glad it’s almost Passover? Orange fabrics for a modern Seder table
Orange Summer by Justine Miller Have you heard the story about the woman who wanted to be a rabbi and who was told by a man that “a woman belongs on the synagogue bimah the way an orange belongs on a Passover Seder plate”? The story has inspired many families, including mine, to put oranges … Continue reading
Grab needle and thread at Beetle and Fred
Sewists in New York’s Mid-Hudson River Valley region have a new local fabric shop, Beetle and Fred, in the town of Beacon. Katy Hope launched the shop last year around Thanksgiving on the town’s picturesque Main Street, overlooking the Hudson River and not far from the Dia:Beacon museum of modern art. Katy has pulled together … Continue reading
Happy Hanukkah Fabrics
A collection of happy Hanukkah fabric patterns. Click the swatches to see details on Spoonflower. I feel like I should point out that these are not affiliate links, just fabrics to inspire your projects and brighten your day. Happy Hanukkah! Continue reading
More Adventures in Six-Pointed Stars: Snowflakes!
Usually I post Fabric Friday swatches on the Facebook page, but this week I found a bunch of fabrics that I wanted to share, and that calls for a blog post. This week’s fabric theme is snowflakes. Have you ever noticed that the snowflakes on snowflake patterned fabrics often have six points? These subtle graphic … Continue reading
What would you sew with this new Jewish tartan?
Have you been looking for a tallit with Scottish flair? Have you wanted a kilt but weren’t sure where to find one that comforms to the Jewish laws of shatnez? Scottish rabbi Mendel Jacobs has you covered. He’s just registered the first official Jewish tartan with the Scottish Tartans Authority. Scottish rabbi hawks ‘kosher’ tartan … Continue reading
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