As a beginner, the breakdown of what you would use each fabric for was super helpful.

I totally appreciate the new measure of 'floopy' but "the thicker the fabric, the simpler the design needs to be" summed up everything so easily. Definitely my new go-to guideline. Thanks heaps for doing this.

I’m unsure where you get your “every time Caileigh is bored and searching for sewing content I upload” superpower from, but I appreciate it immensely :)

Having the examples of fabric both off the bolt and in a finished garment is super helpful. Thank you!

I have a whole dresser filled with "oops, that's not what I thought it was going to be" fabrics. This has been so helpful!

"Slippery and annoying" Yeah, I learned that the hard way when I decided my first project would be to make a sheer wrap circle skirt for ballet classes out of chiffon!

Floopy is my new word! Great series even for us advanced in age sewists.

I honestly think most people have a relatively small list of fabrics they like to wear, whether the clothes are purchased or hand made. Personally, I sew primarily in cotton twill (skirts, trousers, jackets, boleros) and quilting cotton (blouses, dresses). If I find a fabric I love, I will also use rayon or wool for certain projects, but I will only purchase a rtw dress if it is rayon or a natural fibre. The texture and fibre content are the real dealbreakers for me.

We know you're the Queen of Darts but also Queen of Sateen 🙌🙌

I use linen so much, its good because I easily get hot and sweaty and living in socal doesnt help the situation. Also will be incorporating floopy into my vocabulary

Using the footage of the fabrics pre- and post-project completion was so helpful for a visual-learner gal like me!

This was such a delight! I found it super helpful, especially to have the fabric terms spelled out with accompanying description and outfits made out of same fabric. Thank you Bianca!

Well you looked stunning in every picture! My fav was the Lemon Dress! I love to work with linen, cotton voile and cotton satin ❤️

I love the fabric recommendations. The more I get into sewing, the more I see how personalized and creative it is. Videos like this really do help people figure out a decent baseline on what type of fabric they're looking for, and then they can expand from there. Thanks for putting this together, Bianca!

I loved every single ensemble. Amazing wardrobe.

Next time I work with fashion students at my college, I'll make sure they know that "floopy" is the technical term to measure drape.

Bianca, you look amazing in all of these clips 😍 I know this was supposed to be about fabric but it's also a best of the best examples of you dressing and styling yourself.

Fabric I most often use: cotton bedsheets (really soft when preused, and can be dyed for a nicer colour), whatever linnen I find (preferably soft and with a dense enough weave that it's not seetrough) and all the wools (mostly felted, though for some reason, but I want to start to use more thinner wools with weaved patterns, too). I tend to have a habit of using too thick fabric, as I most often gravitate to clothes with gathers, so I would need more drapey fabrics. But somehow I still managed to make a gathered sleeve cap on my winter coat made out of thick felted wool, that would take no pressing whatsoever. It looks fabuolus, but the thickness made it hard to work with.

You are saving my life here. Seriously, this is a fantastic video, I appreciate being able to see the fabric in motion!

Fun fact: In Swedish, polo shirts are called pique skjorta (pique shirt) and I had never before linked that to the fabric it’s made of 😅 Thanks for this video !

This is absolutely something that is taught in beginner sewing classes. Very comprehensive and a great reference tool for beginner and advance sewers alike.

That was really interesting! I tend to avoid anything polyester but do sometimes find myself eyeing the poly brocade and wishing that silk brocade was both more affordable and easier to find. Maybe I'll give some poly brocade a try and line it with a cotton or linen so I at least don't have to have the polyester plastic-y feel against my skin.

My favourite fabrics are cotton satin, cotton voile, cotton poplin, rayon knit, any kind of wool, woven or knit, due to our climate), crepe georgette (in my dreams :)) Fabric heaven! Thank you for sharing across The Atlantic!

Those trousers were just lovely! Very flattering and feminine. So was everything, really, but I believe that’s the first time I’ve seen anything other than a dress or skirt.

Love cotton poplin lighter than linen. I have 12+ dresses in poplin. Though I would kill for a few linen slip dresses.

Ooh! My favourite fabrics are: Linens, like all linens, but I tend to use a mid-weight. I use them for skirts mostly and some shirts. I love midweight Japanese cottons, because they don't crease that much at all, they're available in great prints and they're thick enough that you can use them for skirts without lining them (I've gotten mine from brick and mortar stores and also online stores based in Asia - I'm in Australia so buying things from Asia is very doable shipping-wise.)Cotton lawns and voiles, which I use for shirts. I will sometimes use quilting cottons for shirts but it isn't my preference. Shirting cottons are great, I tend to prefer ones with a softer hand than poplin. I also do like wool suitings which I make skirts out of, and I've made things from cotton drill and corduroy before. Corduroy is a fun fabric, more forgiving than velvet and very cosy. Rarely I'll find a nice lightweight rayon which I'll use for a blouse or something. I mostly make skirts and button up shirts - I don't sew with knits, I don't sew with synthetics, and I would *like* to make jackets and pants but fitting is hard and I haven't found or made a good pattern yet. I do occasionally make a dress but I'm really bad at actually wearing dresses, so they tend to just...sit in my wardrobe not pulling their weight while I reach for skirts instead. For those wondering I live in a dry, oceanic climate - köppen classification CFB, which can range in temperature from below 0c in winter to 40c in summer, so I make things for a wide variety of temperatures. Linen is also great if you're in a humid or more tropical area so when I'm travelling to those places (recently went to far north queensland) I always bring some. The fabric stores here don't sell a lot of rayons for whatever reason - linen is really popular at most of the better stores, and you can barely ever get silk (plus sewing with silk satin or silk chiffon is a nightmare - silk crepe is much better but can you get it? Not really.)

As someone who sweats a lot due to medications, linens are my go to... anything close to the body. It sucks, cottons have such lovely prints and weights!

Silk and linen and any natural fabric with an interesting weave. Chambray. Woven patterns. Plaid. Jacquard.

The yellow dress w fan is Everything! 💞

My favorites are (natural fiber) corduroy and silk duponi, I love textured fabrics some thing about texture in a fabric delights me!

Very helpful I just started sewing and over the weekend I stopped into joannes and just took the time to feel different fabrics so this was perfect

Thank you for this video! This is so helpful!

Those examples really made it more tangible. Thanks for the video!

Superb lesson! Thank you so much.

Yay, I was waiting for this one. Thank you for the details as always, super helpful!

Fantastic continuation. Thank you B. My Fitz. x

lovely video❤

This was super helpful thank you!

Thank you for sharing this! This has given me a better idea of what some of my mystery fabrics are. Plus fabric ideas that I want to work with in the future.

Love the show & tell!!! ♥️♥️♥️

I sewed with a polyester chiffon recently and swore id never torture myself again with slippy fabric like that but it turned out so beautiful I might do it again. help

Great fabric tips, thank you Bianca. My favorites , I must say are natural fiber fabrics. For both sustainable and quality reasons. While I love the drape of Rayon, I know how unsustainable the process is and therefore I prefer a Lyocel or Tencel fabric. I just don't see a lot of it out there! bummer. By the way, "Floopy" is a word. Yup. And also "flopsy" which I like to use. Lol. Oh, and that gorgeous dark red dress with that hanging drape at the front, oh my!

Omg! Your garments fit you so perfectly! Those black trousers are divine!

I liked the wrap dress. Which video is that? Thanks for all you hard work your content is amazing.

Thanks for this!! I loved seeing the outfits!!

Thank you kindly for this!

Love this! Super helpful!! I know I will be referencing this time and again :) :)

Thanks for the video.

Nice! Learned a bit!

Im going to be coming back to reference this video A Lot

Your wardrobe is as stunning as always, and super helpful to have the fabrics explained. It makes online purchases so much easier when you know what to expect and that it will work for the project in mind. Thank you

Yes! So happy I just found this video! I'm always in a quandary when choosing fabric. Thank you!

Super helpful!! And your modelling is 💯

Hi. Thank you!

Super helpful! I love all of these suggestions and can’t wait to try working with them!

Thank you so much for the tutorial. It’s really helpful to associate the fabric with actual types of garments.

Great video! I really appreciate this breakdown of fabrics as an intermediate sewist.

Loved the video! You had some real helpful information. Thank you! I can’t wait for your next video😊

Thank you!

Great info! Thanks!!😁💖

Amazing fashion show 😍

ESPETACULAR..MARAVILHOSA

Hi Bianca!! This is so helpful even for refreshing the memory.. Thank you so much.. Deeply appreciated…. 💜💜💜🧵🧵🧵

Very informative. Love that you also showed some of your outfits.

Very informative! I'm on the hunt for a really great cotton twill. Love those brocades 😍

Very well explained and your outfits are stunning and suit you so well!

This is great, I learned a lot

I recently bought my first suiting fabrics- you inspired me to try them out. I love them! Thanks so much for your insight and videos. I needed one after a long, less than optimal day. 💙

I prefer silk for sewing as it comes in various thicknesses. The reality is that I no longer can afford it. Mostly I sew with quilting cotton as it makes very sturdy button front blouses that I can wear as casual or professional. My next projects will involve rayon blend knits. They were three and five yards for $8. Appears to be a a remnant. The knit lace all became a simple pull over dress to be worn with either a black or red slip. May make a top out of it if there is enough left over. The other knit is a soft brushed floral. Am going to make a pull on pencil skirt and a pull over dress. The dresses can easily be dressed up or down, so it does double duty. Am currently working on a rayon silky for an Armistice blouse.

Love it 😍

I love your longer sewing videos but this was a nice, video packed with information that I can see referring back to a lot in the future.

a great wardrobe and those 2 red dresses are new to me, how stunning!

Having only recently discovered” your KZfaq channel. I am simply blown away at this video ~ your range /versatility of styling, makeup, accessories etc. are beyond amazing!

Thank you,very useful information on fabrics, your outfits always look beautiful.💖

Your wardrobe is just stunning 🤩

Floopy: A highly technical tailoring term for a specific ratio of flounce to pouf? But seriously these fabric videos have been great. I feel much more confident in matching fabric with patterns and projects. You model the clothes so elegantly.

Wow, I love every one of these outfits that you’ve sewn. Beautiful fabric choices. Great information.❤

Thank you for this!! My husband needs some lightweight shorts for summer but I was sooo undecided on which fabric to choose for them- this definitely helped me narrow it down... as well as inspire some future projects for myself 😎

You look so good in the lemon dress!!!

I love everything you make but those brocade dresses are just stunning!

Fantastic

I just love all the garments that you have shown. You look fantastic in all your outfits. 💜🖤

I am looking at my stash, of mostly solids, and asking myself why I don’t have a cotton challis lemon print?

I also like brocade. it's so luxurious and decadent in a way.

Thank you for this! Even for an experienced maker as I am - it is always good to have a refresher and you explained everything in a way that made it easy to understand.

Wow! You look especially fantastic in the lemon sateen dress!

Thank you, Bianca! This was exactly the kind of information I was looking for! I will certainly be using this video to help me buy fabric in the future. And I'm happy to add the word floopy in my vocabulary!

That was an extremely helpful and educational video. I've heard these fabric names, but you really explained well their characteristics and possible uses.

Pardon me while I go put a bunch of fabric in my cart on Mood.... As always, an informative and well thought out video.

This is my first time watching one of your videos right through. The information is well laid out. Love your style. Loved the outfits. The fit perfect. Very impressive!

This video is really great. Full of useful information and very well done. I love crepe. I love sewing and wearing it. I also love sewing jersey or scuba because I can't close a dress with a back zipper on my own ^^ I've bought a lot of beautiful cottons but I'm always pushing them back. Maybe I need to find the basic patterns that will help me start.

LOL I just found cotton sateen in black and cotton lawn in white and off white pin stripe at my favorite over run fabric store. They were a steal. I got 4 yards of each and 60 inches wide.

I absolutely love your videos and those last were so informative, brilliant, thank you. I also love your pattern drafting videos, will you be doing another one soon

All of these were stunning!! I know you call yourself a lazy seamstress but everything is so on point!!!! All of these fabrics are so nice!!

Well it finally happened I made an order from Mood. My wallet hurts but I’m excited to see it all

Love “floopy “ fabric.

Yes! I'm an advanced beginner/intermediate Sewist and am slowly getting more familiar with different fabric types. My new favorite is cotton double gauze. Super light and breezy to wear and very cozy! Also seems to be a trendy fabric for ready to wear apparel. I'm definitely going to be referencing back to this video - thank you!

You answered my question of the week: What do I make bias tape out of that doesn't look like "cotton bias tape". I learned to sew through quilting. I live in an area that has a number of fabric stores, but they nearly all cater heavily towards quilting - leading to me being quite confused about cotton that's not quilting cotton. This is the information I need as I branch out into garments. Thank you.

Ok, can we talk about those red dresses? You look stunning in red! Not that you don’t in other colours (you definitely know what looks great on you and have great taste) but red just makes you glow! I’m very jealous right now 😝

Great video, Bianca! I love sewing but just kinda fly bye the seat of my pants when it comes to fabric choices so this was really helpful!