The ever growing fabric stash can be a challenge to manage. Working at a quilt store we hear these phrases on a daily basis, “I forgot to bring my fabric with me to match” or “I don’t remember how much fabric I already bought for my fabric stash” or better yet people ask us, “Don’t you remember which one I bought last week?”
Now there are Swatch Buddies! Saving you time, money and sanity as you collect fabric for a project, work on building a specific color grouping for your fabric stash and to help you remember how much you already have bought so you don’t have to over buy to compensate.
No need to second guess yourself and try to remember which exact color you were needing. (My color memory is about as long as an ant)! Use your very own fabric swatches made from your fabric stash and make quick work of shopping for specific patterns, colors and scale.
Buy the right fabric the first time, save money so you can buy more fabric and totally make your next trip to the quilt store more enjoyable!
How Can Swatch Buddies Help With Your Fabric Stash?
Shopping
Need to shop for more than one project at the same time? Create a separate ring of swatches for each project. Use the included labels to identify what you already own and what you still need for a simplified shopping list.
Create Color Palettes
When building a fabric stash, shop by color palettes. Create swatches of different color groups on different rings. Example: A run of colors starting at purple and running to red. Leave open swatch cards on the ring where you need to fill in missing colors for the project or fabric stash.
Designing
After making swatches using the Swatch Buddies system, it’s easy to design using the swatches. Instead of pulling out yards of fabric from the fabric stash, just use the swatches to audition the fabric choices with each other.
Organizing
You don’t need to make swatches for the entire fabric stash. But if you are storing fabrics away or placing them in a hard to reach storage area, use the Stash Buddies to know exactly what and how much of each fabric is in each tub.
Viewability
When shopping with the Stash Buddies system, we often want to work with various fabric combinations. Fan out the Swatch Buddies cards on the ring to easy compare and choose the right fabrics. Being that the swatches are all the same size it can also help reduce excessive visual clutter when selecting fabrics.
Portability
Attach the Swatch Buddies ring to a purse, tote, lanyard or D-ring to easily take with you. The included ring can even connect multiple Swatch Buddies together.
Flexibility
Have you ever started a project with one color palette and ended using something totally different? The Swatch Buddies will easily help one to evolve through the color selection process. Swatches can easily adapt to your changing color needs. Open the ring to change the order, remove or add new Swatch Buddies to the mix.
Label-ability
Included are labels for the back of each Swatch Buddies. These labels are totally optional. But if you take the extra time to fill in these labels, the information could turn priceless the next time you run out of your favorite fabric!
Durability
Carry the Swatch Buddies around for the life of your project even if that takes several years to complete! The extremely strong steel cable ring will with stand the test of time of those Swatch cards. The unique adhesive system also helps the fabric swatches from unraveling during their lifetime.
Re-Usability
Swatch Buddies are re-usable. If Swatch Buddies helps you buy even one yard less of fabric, then they have already paid for themselves! Once a project is completed, remove the removable adhesive and labels from the plastic swatch cards and reload them with new swatches!
Heirloom Creations Friends – It’s time to get organized!
We have all imagined making a special system to keep our fabric stashes in check but we will use the excuse we are probably all too busy sewing! Forget reinventing the wheel, buy a couple packs of the new Swatch Buddies and get it done.
If you have any other ideas for uses for Swatch Buddies, leave a comment to share it with others.
Pick up your Swatch Buddies today, available in 3 different size packages: 12 cards, 24 cards or 48 cards
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