I love Fabric Matchmaker! It’s one of my favorite episodes!

I love all the vintage fabrics!! Great job on pairing them with a pattern and fabrics. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

Colors for Martina's quilt were fabulous always a good Eye Fran

Matchmaker! What a great idea.

All great quilts.Great choice of colors.

Each quilt was perfect. I love watching your ideas come to life.

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

Thank you Vicki!

Love all the ideas and prints but like the Lamps as my favorite ❤️.

Love that lamp fabric 😍. How fun is that!! Thanks for the video 😊

Liked how you showed other patterns using the same fabric.

Fran, I would love to see the photos of the Match Maker choices as well!

Fran, you are so gifted at fabric match making! I love Martina's vintage fabric and the one you found with identical colors is outstanding. I really enjoy how the vintage fabrics look. Thanks for all you do. 🩷

Love the vintage looks and styles of the fabrics and quilt images. My grandma would sew many dresses and skirts for my sister and I. The scraps were then put into a scrappy nine patch quilt! Great memories!

I love how you have placed the fabrics in a variety of your patterns. Some patterns I haven’t seen in a long time if I have seen them before todays show. I have access to all the early books. Nice to see this array of fabrics in the earlier patterns. Thanks, Fran.

Hello Fran I love watching fabric matchmaker. The fabrics that are submitted are always a surprise!! Which is the best part in the beginning of the process. Then of course I love seeing the fabrics you match up, with the fabric submitted. But out of all of the processes I like seeing the images shown at the end. Which includes the fabric submitted, and your fabric pics. Bringing the quilt altogether. I think it's a great process. Looking forward to seeing more of your shows. Thanks for all your time and effort 😁❤️

Another wonderful use of Three Yard Quilt Patterns. (One vintage plus 2 new fabrics in the pattern of choice, YEA!) I've been secretly using 1950s fabrics combined with 2 new fabrics and Fabric Cafe Patterns. Now I can openly share using vintage. Everyone receiving one of these quilts has commented on the unusual combination of fabrics. My favorite quilt includes the vintage fabric that was cut out in pieces to make a 1950s dress with circular skirt. Recutting the dress pieces into the "Dash" pattern was so easy. Thank you for leading the way to use vintage with new!

Fran, You ALWAYS ALWAYS find the perfect match for the Focus Fabric. Thinking of sending mine....

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

Hi Brenda!

You knocked it out of the park with your fabric choices!

Appreciate when you showcase patterns that work well for directional fabrics. Thank you Fran, your fabric choices really make the quilts sing.

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

Of course! We also have a free sheet that lists 10 patterns that work well with directional fabric - www.fabriccafe.com/Top-10-Quilt-Patterns-for-Directional-Fabric-Fre-p/991503.htm

Groovy!

Another winner, as Fabric Matchmaker always is! All 3 of these were stunners. 😍

You done well with that vintage love the idea

Fun video. Great job Matchmaker!

I love these segments!

I love all the fabric

Great job choosing companion fabrics to go with the vintage swatches. All beautiful. 👏♥️🇦🇺

Thank you Fran!!😊

Any chance you could come add "Fabric Match maker" in the title? I look so forward to the matchmaker series and don't want to miss any. Fran, you're very talented!

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the suggestion Judy! We can do that 😊

Love making Roman Holiday pattern.

Hey Fran! Love these ideas! With all of the holidays we celebrate, would you and your team be able to put together a book showcasing table squares or runners from your patterns? I would also love to see a book with patterns that use a stripe fabric. I know that several years ago you created a video, but thought it would be great to see striped fabric ideas in a book format.

My brother’s first home had kitchen appliances this same turquoise color! I thought it was so beautiful! I was about 12!

Fran, thank you! I received my fabric package from you last week from being chosen on your Sept 26,match makers!I love those chosen free fabrics and the Christmas pattern book!awesome. I plan to get the quilt cut soon and add to my over whelming quilts to finish. Someday I’ll send a picture of the finished quilt. Once again Ty. 🪡🧵✂️❤️

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! I'm excited to see the picture one day! 🥰🥰

Fran-I love the fabric and pattern. Thank you so much!

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

You are SEW welcome, Martina! Thank you for sending in your fabric 🥰

Your patterns are always so pretty and easy to do!

Hi Fran - - I have loved all of these vintage fabrics! I have over 100 yards of 30's fabric and I just love all of the small prints that are on all of the fabrics. I do use the fabric, but I find fabric from that time frame that suits me to a "T"!!! Thanks so much for all the info!

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

You're so welcome! That is quite the stash you have!! I'm jealous!

Fran-you are marvelous! Love all your videos. The ones with Mom Donna too😊

Loved the first quilt you ‘matched’. Not a big fan of the 60’s vibe but this was so cute! Also thought that last fabric looked so good. Made me think ‘little girl’. Perfect! And the fabric you chose for the kit was so close to the original that if you hadn’t pointed it out, I might have believed it to be the same! Great pattern choices too.

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

Thank you Patricia!

They ll look sooooo nice❤

Love them all!!!

Love all of these! All are amazing!

Look forward to these videos every week 😁 Not such a fan of vintage fabric but do learn about patterns and matching every time. I would have put a brighter turquoise with the first one myself but then I don't like brown! Even so, I can see why you chose what you did. Always learning 😊👍

Fran I have to say..when Zi look at the nine patch…it always looks like puzzle pieces…so cool looking!

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

It is cool!

Beautiful

Hi Fran!

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

Hi Linda!

Love this episode! Are there any issues with combining vintage fabrics with contemporary fabrics? Anything you suggest we should look out for?

Hi Fran, I have received a large number of vintage fabric, I was told to “test” it first before using. It can be very thin? Can you help me understand this and am I able to use in a quilt. Thank you

@dorothydecesare1607

9 ай бұрын

Hmm, maybe to determine if fabric is cotton or poly/cotton blend? Many vintage fabrics were marketed as ‘permapress’, and quite popular back in the day….

@marylouboxley1969

9 ай бұрын

@@dorothydecesare1607 how can I tell the difference. Is there a test.

@dorothydecesare1607

9 ай бұрын

Not sure because I was a little girl then, but I think my mom would try scrunching the fabric in her hand. The perma press material would not wrinkle whereas the all cotton would wrinkle. She also sometimes would take a few threads of the fabric and light them with a match. ( safely of course, maybe over the sink ). The all cotton would smell differently from poly cotton blend. Perhaps 🤔 some of the other viewers can remember these tricks? Hope it helps. I do know that my mom used all sorts of fabrics, cotton, poly cotton, wools, a lot of unknowns in her quilts because she grew up in the Depression era and that is just what you did! Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without! The quilts were made with love and kept us warm at night…..🥰

@marylouboxley1969

9 ай бұрын

@@dorothydecesare1607 thank you for your help. I will try the two methods you mentioned

How long does it take for a fabric swatch sent in to be presented on a matchmaker video? And if not used in a video, when is a person notified. Thanks!

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

Hi Ms. Dale! When we receive a fabric swatch we try to schedule them all to air in one of our shows. If we are unable to get schedule it we notify the sender and return the fabrics. But we try to find matches for your fabric and send those as well 😊

@MsDale1976

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I realize that but is there a time frame from when you receive it and when it is aired or when you reply. Like one month, six months???Just looking for a time frame and hope to get chosen. Thank you!💕

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Do you have to do downloads or can you get the book

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

We have both the printed books/patterns as well as digital books/patterns. You can find them all at fabriccafe.com 😊

Hello

@FabricCafe

9 ай бұрын

Hi Brenda!