Who is fabricmatcher.com?
Membership
Our fabric
Our patterns
How do we fulfill your fabric and pattern orders?
Shopping cart and charges
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.com?

Fabricmatcher.com 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.

Material Obsession are using this product as the backbone to their online shop.

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Membership

There is no charge to be a member of Material Obsession. 

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Our fabric

All our fabric orders are fulfilled by Material Obsession.

• What is the fabric content?

We only the finest quality merchandise. Most of our fabrics are 100% patchwork quality cotton suitable for craft and dressmaking unless otherwise indicated. 

• What is the width of fabric?

44 inches unless otherwise indicated.

• Are the fabric images accurate and to scale?

All our fabric images are supplied by our fabric suppliers. 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.

• What is the minimum yardage I can buy?

Our minimum cut is 25cm.

• Why are fabrics sold in 25cm units?

Since our minimum cut is 25cm, our pricing for fabric is structured around this measurement. Prices and quantities reflected on our website and on all invoices are reflected by the 25cm unit.

• Does yardage sold in 25cm come in a continuous piece?

All yardages are sold in continuous pieces.

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Our patterns

We have worked closely with fabricmatcher to best represent our patterns online. We have the fabric requirements matched to the closest 25cm the fabric requirements for each pattern. We have also looked at the safe side of 25cm so you will probably get more fabric than you need but it will leave you some overages incase you make any mistakes when cutting.

• Recommended fabrics on patterns

We have also supplied some recommended fabric selections on some patterns that you can purchase right then or change if you like.

• Pattern Designers

All our patterns are developed by the team at Material Obsession.

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How do we fulfill your fabric and pattern orders?

What you order, will determine how your order is sent to you. As soon as you have purchased on our shopping cart, your order is sent to our fulfillment partners within 24 hours to send out the products selected. You will receive an emailed receipt from fabricmatcher.com with your order details and where the product will come from. Within 48 hrs you will receive a confirmation email from our partners with your order for tracking purposes. You can call the shop to see how the deliveries are going. We try to ensure that the fabric and patterns you buy are in stock but there may be times when a large number of orders come in at the same time for the same product so we will send out by order of customer purchase.

 
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Shopping cart and charges

Our shopping cart is very straight forward. When you purchase, a project the pattern and fabric will be together in the cart. If you make separate fabric or pattern orders they will be shown separately. All prices show on the website are in Australian$.

• What are the fabric requirements for patterns?

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

• What is the Order Processing Charge?

We do not charge a order porcessing charge. This may change in the future to help cover the cost of processing the orders with our suppliers.

• What is the GST Charge?

For all orders that originate from Australia, there will be a 10% GST added to the order.

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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 purchase the project just add to your shopping cart 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 premium 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 premium customer 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 premium 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 cart, you will not be charged for the fabric.

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Getting your designs published on fabricmatcher.com

Let us know if you want to stock patterns through our shop.

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Do you need any other questions answered?

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