inside: All My favorite spring fabrics in one place. I buy almost all my fabric online and here are my spring fabric picks for sewing.
Do you like to order fabric online for sewing? I do! 95% of my fabric comes from online fabric stores and today I’m sharing a few of my favorite spring fabrics AND where to buy them. Updated links and fabrics 3/2024
I hope you will find some new fabric and fabric stores here in this post. I’m in full swing of spring summer sewing and have been stocking up on spring fabric for over a month already. Who is ready for spring fabric shopping!!
My Favorites: Spring Fabric for sewing clothing
Ok! First let’s talk about the type of fabric I sew with in the spring and summer. I use a lot of swim fabric, board shorts fabric, double brushed poly, cotton lycra, and other light fabrics that breathe well.
This will not be an exhaustive list of fabrics and projects to sew with spring fabrics. All fabric links are at the bottom of this post!!
Swim Fabric –
First up swim! I sew all my kids swim and love to shop adorable swim fabric. The best part of sewing my own swim is that I can achieve a custom fit for my hard to fit daughter and make swim shorts that my boys love.
The swim fabric from the shops I’ve shared below does not fade and is high quality! My kids do swim team and the fabric lasts all summer with daily swims {and we never rinse off the chemicals} Check out my Girls Classic Swim Suit pattern HERE. And the Boys Board shorts pattern HERE.
Double Brushed Poly –
This is one of my favorite fabrics year round. This fabric makes amazing leggings, shirts and dresses. I recently used it for the short sleeve version of the twirly dress plus I always sew summer shortie leggings. Super soft and amazing to touch this fabric can be a bit warm if you live in a very hot climate, but for most of the world this can work all year round. You can get great brushed poly on FWD.com.
You can also sew shirts from classic t-shirt fabric. This is a lot less stretchy {usually only two way or slight four way} but is more of a classic tee fabric. This t-shirt fabric is called tri-blend on some sites… its so lovely for shirt, tanks and dresses
Rib Knit-
My new spring summer fabric of choice! Adore rib knit!! I’ll be sharing another post with it soon, but for now you can see the matching dresses I made from it here. Use it for shirts, skirts and dresses for a fun a modern look.
Cotton Fabric –
If you are looking for fun cotton fabrics from spring I’ve for you covered there as well. Things I like to sew with cotton.
Rayon Challis
This is a beautiful and lightweight woven fabric. Perfect for dresses and skirts.
- Skirt with pockets
- Ruffled Sleeve Dress free pattern kids
- Flowing spring dress – for women
- Ruffled Sleeve dress for women
Athletic Knit
You need athletic clothes all year round!! Sew leggings and tops with this fun fabric.
Stretch Lace –
Use as overlays, for skirts or tops, lace can add a fun details to your spring and summer clothes. Here are a few ways I’ve used streth lace
- Lace shirt overlay
- Double Skirt on dress
- Tulle and cotton skirt {use lace instead of the tulle}
- Wrap Dress
- Racerback tank with lace panel
Where to buy my favorite spring fabric
My favorites: Spring Fabrics
I adore sewing for spring and this list of must have fabrics is super helpful. I have personally ordered from all of these shops and can say that
Swim Fabric
Excellent quality swim fabric from Peek A Boo Fabric shop
CLUB
Raspberry Creek Fabric is unique in the fact that they release seasonal lines of fabric several times a year. Their club releases on several base fabrics.
Swim and Performance
I love the RCF swim lines. The swim fabric and board short fabric is fade proof and my kids wear them for seasons without wearing out.
Knit Apparel Fabrics
I love the double brushed poly from RCF. I use for leggings, dresses, shirts and more!
Double Brushed Poly
Double Brushed Poly from Peek a Boo Fabric, perfect for leggings, shirts, dresses and mor
stretch lace
This stretch lace is AMAZING. Beautiful for shirts and dresses!
Board Shorts
Board short fabric that does not fade from Peek a Boo
Preorder
The Styled Magnolia has beautiful fabric. I was able to order several yards from them a few months ago. Most of their fabric runs on pre-orders... so be prepared to wait.
Rib knit
Rib Knit
I order all the time from Sincerly Rylee as her inventory changes weekly. Great sales and the most beautiful modern fabrics. This rib knit is divine.
Swiss dot chiffon woven
Rayon Challis
BUNDLES
Sincerely Rylee bundles are a great way to try new fabrics and expand your collection. I often go for the mystery bundles because the prices are unbeatable. great way to get a deal.
Pamela Wilson says
Thank you so much for this list of on line fabric stores. I am in the process of moving to Hawaii with my new husband. The island of Kauai has very limited fabric stores so the internet is the way to go. He has several adult daughters with several children and they all want me to sew for them. I really appreciate your patterns of little ones. And I so enjoy your website. Thank You
Darcy Halvorson says
I would like to thank you for all of your free patterns and videos. Right now I’m just starting out and with all the free patterns and tutorials it helps me get back into sewing.