The Wonderful World of Vogue Fabrics

Haitian Fabric Rush Update: We arranged drop off of the truck load for next Tuesday the 13th. Offically we have stopped collecting donations at this time. If they wish us to continue, I will post a new Fabric Rush announcing the new deadline. Personally, I think they are a little overwhelmed at the prospects of me dropping off around 3 tons of fabric. I am very proud of what everyone has done. I'll take photos to document everything and post them on our facebook fan page for you to see. Thanks again, the response was overwhelming.

Our Haitian Fabric Rush is set to end this Friday, Mar. 26th. The response has been overwhelming. We are planning to deliver our donations in the first week of April. I will post pictures of the delivery in our Facebook photo album so everyone can see the fantastic results of our group effort. I will try and get a gross weight of our donation. I will announce at a later date if we are going to start another rush, this all depends on if our contact at the Haitian Congress feels more fabric and sewing supplies can benefit Haitian Relief efforts. Thanks to everyone who partipated!

Hello everyone, I have exciting news. I was in contact with the Haitian Congress of Chicago this week and was able to get all the information I needed to feel comfortable organizing a fabric, clothing, and supplies drive. Originally our interest was in gathering donations of  fabric, over 4 yards, for garments to be constructed for Sew Special Designs. However, the interest by our followers and fans was more of one on a lesser yardage scale. Obviously, most of you have smaller cuts of fabric, used spools of threads, and garments you don’t wear anymore. Some showed an interested in sewing something up and donating it. And some of you have bolts of interfacing, and dozens of zippers that you want to throw into the mix. All these great offerings were not part of the original plea. But, it became very clear that if I wanted to organize assistance to Haiti, our initial purpose would have to change. So, in talking with the Haitian Congress and explaining everything, she...

A friend and local designer in Chicago wants to donate his workroom, employees, and time to make 10,000 garments to ship to Haiti. We have already contacted the local Haitian center and they will ship the garments to Haiti to be distributed. To make this work we need over 20,000 yards of fabric. I can come up with some thousands of yards, but not all that is necessary. I want to know if I put a plea out to our our customer or fan base to donate your unwanted 4 yd. or larger pieces from your fabric stash, would you be up for it? Let me know. Please post on our fan page on Facebook, comment on this post, or send me an email at Sean@voguefabricsstore.com.   If the response is positive and it looks like we can reach our goal, I will start this process. But, to have Michael shut his workroom down is a huge commitment, and I do not want to have him do this if we can not come thru for him with his goal yardage.  Here is his website if you want more information. http://www.sewspe...