The Wonderful World of Vogue Fabrics

Burlap & Cotton Print Scarecrows in Iowa  Springtime is upon us , and many people have already begun to plan their flower and vegetable gardens, and seed their Jiffy-7 Peat Pellets.  I am happy to share with you my favorite ways to use fabrics to enhance your landscape's curb appeal, aid in weed control, and protect your garden from pests, winds, and critters.  Please feel free to share your personal stories in the comments and share this post with others. Burlap – Fantastic for Planting You no doubt have seen the burlap wrapped around the base of trees at garden stores.   This fabric is rugged, and retains moisture exceptionally well.   You can use this very economical fabric to plant your vegetable garden in two ways. If you are planting seeds, sow as normal and then lay burlap on top of the garden and secure it with some bricks, garden rocks, or decorative pots.   Then give your garden a good soak.   The burlap helps keep the soil mo...

We get hundreds of visits from Fashion designers at Vogue Fabrics Warehouse. Over the years, I’ve gotten to know a few dozen of them personally and I have come to learn a few things about what they do well and what mistakes they make. I have especially learned that fashion design and having an apparel line is not an easy business. But once you learn the tricks it can bring a lot of satisfaction, purpose, esteem, fame, and hopefully- profit. Recently, we were visited by a young designer who was just starting her business.  After working with her for many hours we were able to fill her inventory needs. At the end of her visit, we both agreed she had made the right choice in visiting us instead of making dozens of appointments with vendors in other cities' garment districts. Our access to several dozen fabric types, constructions, and styles, some with continuity and some novelty, ended up being our strongest advantage as a source for fabrics.  Undoubtedly, she could have saved...

Thank you to Maria Farhatt and Jenna Compton from SingleNeedle for their recent post interviewing Sean Sussman, one of the owners of Vogue Fabrics , as well as Vogue Fabrics' primary buyer. SingleNeedle is a new design and apparel resource service in the Chicago area providing information to fashion designers.  Vogue Fabrics is proud to be featured as a resource for wholesale fabrics, notions and trims to the Chicago fashion industry. Here is a link to their blogpost: Bootstrap Vogue Fabrics offers "wholesale to the public" on two sites: VogueFabricsStore.com    &    WholesaleFabricsStore.com The former offers wholesale and retail, while the latter is exclusively wholesale for quicker browsing and special novelty options. If you are a start-up designer, or you are opening a fabric store, and you would like to get started shopping with Vogue Fabrics, contact Sean@WholesaleFabricsStore.com for more information, or just visit our sites.

What steels fashion     From Bridal to Couture ,        Anime to Steampunk ,             Historical Reenactors to Goth ?            Corset Supplies!!!   VogueFabricsStore.com carries an exciting selection of corset supplies from bones to busks, hoopsteel to tips and everything in-between.  Here are handy links to get your started on your journey: Corset Supply Section Rye and Ginger Kits - Underbust Corsets pre-cut for quick assembly Historical Reenactment and Costuming Section Bridal Section 

IT'S SEW EASY is an exciting new show offering a novel approach to sewing. The focus is on contemporary style, not age. Each weekly episode features education that revolves around the experts. Designers from across the country share their expertise, showing easy ways to create great sewing projects without the stress of perfection. Vogue Fabrics is a proud sponsor of It's Sew Easy. Projects are easy enough for beginners but creatively challenging to pique the interest of all sewing enthusiasts. Viewers will learn to create beautiful and professional looking garments and home decor. Vogue Fabrics will have many of the fabrics and instructions for viewers to download so you can sew along with the experts when you playback each episode on your DVR. Show themes include: Accessories and Simple Sewing, Apparel Details and Embellishments, Simple Sewing- Easy Tricks, Make it Personal, Dress up Ready Made Home Decor, Garment Construction Tips, Patterns, Surface Embellishment, T-shirt...

Vogue Fabrics is proud to present our new Google Calendar for classes, consumer sewing shows and sale events.   Easily browse by month or agenda to see at a glance what's coming up at our stores. We will add in our sale dates, Warehouse sale events, and upcoming classes.  If you see a class you want to take, you can click on it for full details, click the link to register on-line, and sync it to your mobile device calendar or your computer calendar so you never miss a date. Enjoy!!! If you are seeing only html code below, try clicking the code to make the calendar appear.

Vogue Fabrics is proud to offer two amazing websites from which you can order an incredible assortment of fabrics, trims and notions. So, why two sites instead of just one? WholesaleFabricsStore.com   features our basic, re-orderable fabrics, trims and notions, just like you see on VogueFabricsStore.com in the Wholesale Section. What will make this unique will be: - Special limited time collections at deep discounts of fabrics and novelty products. - Freight options for larger orders to business addresses. - Special order options for colors of fabrics we do not carry in our stores. - Special promotions for wholesale purchases. - Deeper discounts on larger quantities (coming soon). - Expanded payment options such as Amazon Checkout, Google checkout, and Paypal. All in a one step checkout secured format. WholesaleFabricsStore.com is open to businesses, schools, non-profit organizations, as well as the public. If you are a retail fabric store, day spa, church, sewing guild, c...