This was probably the most frustrating part of my sew-my-own-swimsuit project. I went to Jo-Ann’s and there were only 8 bolts of swim fabric. None of which were navy blue and yellow. I did manage to find nylon thread for my serger and stretch needles also for my serger. Those together cost me $20.
So I took my search online. I’ll tell you what, swim/dancewear fabric was not easy to find. I eventually found the site Fashion Fabrics Club, and they had pages and pages of swimwear fabrics. They also had helpful descriptions of the fabric choices to help me make up my mind. Oh, yeah the prices were decent too so I’m not $125 in the hole on a project that may not even end up wearable.
But even with all the choices available on the FFC site, I couldn’t find navy blue and yellow stripes. I ended up settling for these:
If anyone knows me, they can see that this is almost exactly the color combo of my kitchen! Not what I had in mind, but I’m not the most adept at finding fabric, apparently. If anyone out there has an awesome source, by all means let me know. If this experiment is successful I will probably sew some suits for my kiddos, too.
They don’t have an e-commerce web site, but G Street Fabrics, located in Rockville, MD, used to have several swim suit fabrics. I know because I’d walk by them and think “What kind of crazy person would make their own swim suit?” Now I know
Their regular old web site can be found here http://www.gstreetfabrics.com/. I’m sure if you called them, someone would be more than happy to help you.
Amy, I’ll take “Crazy” as a compliment.
My fabric came. I’m not as happy with the combo as I’d hoped. I did go to target and get a suit, so I have something to swim in for now, but I am pretty determined to make a suit. I think I might return the orange for a navy blue or a red.