If your a creative person and love to sew and make up craft pieces all year round you will know at winter time its a very different experience. In the cold months its all about feeling warm and cosy with your blankets and hot drinks so when it comes to getting your sewing machine out you want to create items like onesies, pyjamas, blankets and throws so you can feel this way all winter. Our Fleece Blanket Fabric is the perfect material for creating all these beautiful items with a variety of colours and eye-catching prints to choose from.
Fleece fabric is a thick warm material that is suitable for all ages and even your pets. With fleece you are able to create the best winter garments, warm jackets and blankets for those chilled winter evenings. At Calico Laine we sell a large selection of fleece fabrics including heavy weight, medium weight and super soft cuddle fleece which come in a large range of colours and prints. At the moment our super soft fleece material is the best seller due to its soft touch, warm feeling and the variety of designs available such as animal prints, heart prints and paw prints which is a popular choice for creating pet blankets.
As many of you sewing enthusiasts will know, fleece fabric is particualy easy to work with but there are some useful tips that will come in handy when using this material including:
- make sure you sew on the right side of the material (fleece has a wrong side)
- seam edges are not necessary
- ballpoint sewing machine needles are best to use
- use a polyester thread
- zig zag switches are recommended at seams
- make sure your machine tension is a little lower than usual