Who is Fabricmatcher?
Membership
Our fabric
Our patterns
Shopping List
How can I get the best fabric color representation on my computer screen?
Creating a project
Your own stash
How do I upload images
Can I upload my own fabric to use on a pattern?
Getting your designs published on fabricmatcher.com
Do you need any other questions answered?

Who is Fabricmatcher?

Fabricmatcher is the inspirational collaboration between the husband and wife design team, Damian and Sarah Fielke. Sarah (a passionate quilter and crafter, and part owner of Material Obsession) and Damian  (a career business and new product development expert)  joined forces to help develop a crafting community, where sewers and quilters from around the world, are able to make better design decisions on how they use color and fabric to suit their own lifestyle. They have developed innovative color and matching tools to help you choose and match fabric to your projects and inspiration images and patterns.

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Membership

We have kept membership very simple. Free Membership.
You have access to all applications so you can find fabrics, match fabrics from color and images, find patterns and build projects by matching fabric to patterns. You are also able to save projects, fabrics, patterns and image uploads into your own stash so every time you come back you can edit saved projects and your stash to keep fresh and up to date. You are also able to make your stash public to show the community what you have been making and the inspiration behind your designs.

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Our fabric

Moda Fabrics has been in the quilting and fabric industry since 1975 and are constantly striving to bring you the latest and greatest in both our fabrics and other quilting and home products. Moda currently has independent designers as well as an in-house design staff bringing you some of the hottest new lines of fabrics and home product available in the industry.  All our fabrics is 100% Cotton and machine washable.

Are the fabric images accurate and to scale?
Color and texture are very important in the selection of item and we display their pictures in the best possible way. Sizing is equally important and we try to as accurately portray scaled images as supplied. We have worked hard to ensure the pattern and fabrics scales work together to give you the best representation of a pattern matched to fabric. However, images and fabrics real will never match exactly. Please do not try to match thread to these pictures.

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Our patterns

We have worked closely with designers to best represent their patterns online. We have the fabric requirements matched to the closest 1/8 yard the fabric requirements for each pattern. We have also looked at the safe side of 1/8 yard so you will probably get more fabric than you need but it will leave you some overages incase you make any mistakes when cutting.

Pattern Designers...
We are open to publishing any original designs from our fabricmatcher users. If you would like your patterns published on our site please contact us by email to discuss. We are always looking for new and exciting patterns for our customers. Patterns must be the crafters own original work, not taken from another pattern.

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Shopping List

Our shopping list is very straight forward. When you add a project to your shopping list, the pattern and fabric will be together in the list. If you add separate fabrics or patterns they will be shown separately.

What are the fabric requirements for patterns?
All fabric requirements for patterns are calculated automatically by the shopping list. If you are not to sure whether you have saved the project twice into the shopping list, clear the amount of fabric in the cart to zero, update the shopping cart and then re-save the project to shopping cart.

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How can I get the best fabric color representation on my computer screen?

Set your screen resolution and the screen's color settings to the highest possible settings.  To do this, go to your control panel, click on "display" and then on “settings”.

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Creating a project

How do I create a new project?

Creating a new project with fabrics and a pattern is very easy.

1. Find a pattern for your project – In the New Project box on the left click on the Find Pattern link and search for a pattern to save into your project box. It will also tell you have many fabrics you need to fill the pattern
2. Find fabrics for your project - Click on the Find Fabrics link at the bottom of the fabric box – browse through theme or designer, choose by color or by uploaded image.
3. Each time you find a fabric you like, add it to your fabric box. This fabric will then appear in the fabric box to the left. You can save up to 15 fabrics in your fabric box. Add enough fabrics to
4. Once you have added a pattern and fabrics, then click on the Create Project button
5. Now simply click on the Add Fabric link and you can choose from your fabric box. The pattern will automatically fill up as you choose fabrics
6. You can easily change the fabrics around by clicking on Change Fabric and then re-select the fabric to use
7. You can use the same fabric as many times in the pattern as you like
8. You can then view your completed pattern in a large picture by clicking on the enlarge button.
9. Make sure you name your project and save to your stash
10. If you want to add the project  to your shopping list, just click  "add to your shopping list" at bottom of page.

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Your own stash

We have created special place to keep all your projects and inspirations. When you are a member, you are able to save fabrics, images, patterns and projects into your virtual stash.

What images can I save?
You can upload images that are up to 1meg is size and are either a .gif or .jpg. Any larger files may take a few minutes to upload.

How do I make My Stash public?
All stashes are private but you can have your stash shown on the Public Stash page to show your friends and our customers what you have been working on and the inspiring fabrics you are using.

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How do I upload images?

Log in as a member and you can upload images as inspiration in your stash. You can then add them to your fabric box if they are a fabric or match color and fabric to the image. The maxiumum recommended file size is 1 meg and image format must be jpg, gif or png.

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Can I upload my own fabric to use on a pattern? 

Yes you can – when you are logged on as a member. Just go to My Stash and go to My Images and upload an image of your fabric. Ensure you have saved your fabric as a maximum recommended file size of 1 meg and image format must be jpg, gif or png . You then can add this fabric image to your fabric box to add to any pattern. When you add this fabric to your project and save the project into your shopping list.

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Getting your designs published on Moda's fabricmatcher website

We are always looking for new and exciting designs for our website. If you have some designs you would like added please email us with a photo and soft copy of your pattern for our review. We will then let you know if we would like to publish your patterns.

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Do you need any other questions answered?

If we haven’t answered your question in our FAQs or in other website information please email us your question and we will email you with a response within 48 hours.

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