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Picking a Fabric for your First Sewing Project

For any beginner sewer that is considering starting a new project, going to the fabric store to pick out fabrics and accessories for your project can be an exciting experience.   If you’ve never been to a fabric store before then the sheer choices of different types of fabrics, patterns, styles and designs will be staggering and there are more and more new choices every day.   It can become challenging to pick out a great fabric for your new project.  The best thing to do is do your research beforehand and go to into the store prepared. However, apart from that a sewing machine plays important role.  Some sewing machines are not good with sewing a particular fabric, though some sewing machine such as Brother xm1010, Singer SE400, Brother CS6000i are some of the sewing machines that do well with almost all type of fabrics. Choices of Fabrics For your first few sewing projects, I would recommend using cotton fabrics as it is easier to work with when you are using your