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Welcome to Hyderhangout Quilting Fabric and More
Answers To Frequently Asked Questions
This page is for quiltters and crafters who visit my stores and have frequently asked questions. If you have a question that is not listed here, please feel free to e-mail me and I will do my best to answer your question or tell you where to find the answer. Questions specific to my stores are listed first, then general quilting and sewing questions follow.
GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT HYDERHANGOUT
Q: Why do you sell fabric by the half yard rather than by the yard?
A: Many craft and quilt enthusiasts want to buy fabric, but often they do not need a whole yard of fabric. A great deal of my fabric is listed in ½ yard increments, but it can be purchased in yards or more if I have the quantity you need. If you are looking for a specific quantity or even if you need it cut into squares, Hyderhangout can do it for you.
Q: What do you mean by custom cutting?
A: I own an Accucut system. I have dies for some quilt squares and strips. I eventually plan to get more, so right now I have only part of what you might order. I will pre cut any items for you, some with Accucut and some with rotary cut. Ask for a cutting charge quote any time. If the preordered quantity is enough, I will order an Accucut die to do the job. Otherwise I will do precision rotary cutting.
To see the dies available you can visit www.accucut.com or www.accuquilt.com. See something you want contact me and I will work something out.
Q: What kind of fabric do you sell and where do you get it?
A: I get my fabric from a variety of places. I sell any fabric I happen to get. I have fabric and notions from upholstery to evening dress and everything in between.
I buy some from wholesalers. The two I have accounts with right now are www.choicefabrics.com and www.blankquilting.com . I can order anything you find on their web site and add it to my store inventory. See something you like there, contact me and I will do my best to get it for you ASAP.
I go to auctions and estate sales and get boxes and bags of fabric. I just might have something in my inventory that you would like. I do not ever have all my fabric listed as I get new stuff quite often. Let me know what you are looking for and I will do my best to get it.
I also buy bags of scraps and leftovers from crafters, sewers and quilters. You all have things you will never use. Don't throw it away, don't give it to the dog, don't stuff it in the attic to rot. Contact me and let me know what you have. I just might be able to buy it. I give a decent wholesale price for whatever I buy.
I also get fabric and other sewing and craft items from stores and factories that are having clearance or going out of business sales. If you know of a store going out of business, let me know. I am scouting always to get more pieces of a greater variety for my craft and quilt customers.
Q: What are your shipping charges?
A: I do not charge above what the actual shipping charges are quoted to be. Often I see other sellers who charge an extra fee for packaging and such. I do not pass packaging charges on to you. Another benefit of coming to Hyderhangout to shop.
If you are charged a shipping charge, and you see that the actual cost was slightly less, it is because I use the USPS rate quote. I have to use the partial post rate to quote by. I have two post offices, and many postal workers who weigh my items for shipping. Sometimes they call the packages first class (thus costs less) and sometimes they call them partial post. No rhyme or reason to it. I am playing a gambling game every time I go to the post office.
I try to keep shipping as low as I can, but if the post office goes up, I have to also. I am not making any profit off the shipping.
GENERAL QUILTING AND FABRIC QUESTIONS
Q: What is appliqué?
A: This is a technique used by quilters, crafters, and other fabric artists to make pictures with fabric. Small pieces of fabric are cut into designs and then sewn or fused to the background fabric. It can be done by hand or by machine. It can be used alone or with other techniques. Your imagination is the limit. I can cut out some appliqué shapes with my Accucut system. See the information above under custom cutting.
Q: What is fussy cutting?
A: It is precision cutting of fabric to cut out a specific area of the fabric to be used in the quilt. You can cut out specific motifs or specific images to be used in your quilt. I do not have any fussy cut dies with my Accucut system yet, but they are available.
Q: What is a patch?
A: An individual piece of fabric cut in a shape to be joined together with other patches to make a quilt block. It is also sometimes called a piece. It can be cut freehand, using templates, rotary cut with rulers, and I use my Accucut for many pieces.
Q: What is sashing?
A: This is the fabric that joins together and separates blocks in a quilt. These can be used as part of the design, to make quilts larger, or to make blocks of various signs fit together better. Most of my precut quilt kits do not have the sashing cut to length if they are included. We, as human quilters, each have slightly different ways of joining pieces. When the pieces are joined to form a quilt block the ending measure is not always exact. Your 12" finished block may be slightly larger or smaller than mine. I leave sashing material included in the precut quilts in long pieces and let you cut it to length yourself. After the blocks are done and ready to have the sashing applied.
Q: What is a fat quarter?
A: This is a cut of fabric that is cut to give quilters a more useful area of fabric. It has the same surface area of a piece of fabric cut 9" by the WOF. Fat quarters are said to measure 18" x 21". Some are said to measure 18" x 22". The difference in the length of a fat quarter has to do with the difference in the width of the original fabric selvage to selvage edge. All my listings I sell my fat quarters as 18" x 21", but many end up being larger than that. I have some fabrics that just do not measure 44" in width from the factory or it is Estate fabric which is smaller to begin with.
See the drawing below to see how a fat quarter is cut.
Q: What is a fat eighth?
A: A fat eighth is a fat quarter that is cut in half. There are two ways to cut a fat quarter in half. You end up with a fat eighth that is either 11" x 18" or 9" x 22". In my stores, my listings for fat eighths will have the size listed in the description. See the drawing below to see how fat eighths are cut.
Q: What is a sweet sixteen or a fat sixteenth?
A: This is along with the items above. This is a fat eight cut in half. Sweet sixteens most commonly measure 4 ½" x 22". Rarely they will be cut to measure 9" x 11".
One Yard Cut
22"
varies depending
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HOW FABRIC IS CUT INTO SMALLER PIECES
Q: What is a charm pack?
A: Originally the term charm pack was used for just a pack of 5" squares that were all different. It has been expanded in its use to include any of the squares in packs. In my stores, I will state if the pieces are all different or maybe have a quantity of some of each color. I will also state the size of the squares in that pack.
Q: What is calico fabric?
A: In the first use of the term calico it was strictly a cotton imported from East India from a Company called Calicut. As time went on the term was used for any cotton cloth with closely printed bright colors. Usually in a floral print. The print is in small scale so it was ideal for pieces cut into small patches for quilts. Imitation calico, reproduction calico and genuine calico printed on the more than 100 year old plates are available for sale today.
Q: What is a reproduction fabric vs. a vintage fabric?
A: A reproduction fabric is a newly made fabric printed to look like an old fabric. A vintage fabric is a fabric of an older age that is the actual fabric from then. I have heard a great difference of opinion of what a vintage fabric is as far as age goes. Some people say it has to be fifty years old. Others say it has to be old and made in a certain decade. The older we get the younger vintage fabric gets. It used to be the fabrics from the 1960's were not considered vintage, but recently I have seen many use "vintage" 1960's fabrics in their vintage quilts.
Q: What is a jelly roll?
A: A jelly roll is a package of fabric that contains strips of fabric cut by the WOF. Moda fabrics has a standard of a jelly roll containing 40 -- 2 ½" x WOF" strips. Some other suppliers have their jelly rolls with different quantities. In my listings in my stores, I will have noted what the qty. of strips there is, and the width of the strips in it.
Q: What is a layer cake?
A: This is a term that Moda fabrics has started using. It is a pack of 10" x 10" squares. I do not know if they have a set quantity, but usually it will be a square cut from one of each fabric in a collection. I can see that soon quilters will be calling all packs of 10" x 10" squares layer cakes.
Q: What is a turnover?
A: This is again an item Moda fabrics has started using for a particular cut of fabric. Turnovers are packs of 6" cut half-square triangles.
Q: What is a Sweet Roll?
A: This is another term that Moda Fabrics has started to use. Sweet Rolls are strips 40 -- 1 ½" x 45" strips). In my stores I do not use this term. I use the term Jelly roll for all of my strip sets. I will clarify in the listing what the width of the fabric strips are.
Q: What is a selvage edge?
A: This is the edge of the fabric that finished so that it will not ravel. It is a stiffer, thicker area of the fabric along the edge that measures approximately. 1/3" to ½" wide. This edge is typically cut off and not sewn into a quilt. It will shrink differently than the rest of the fabric. Some fabrics have designer and pattern info on one selvage edge. I do know of a new quilt designer, that is using nothing but selvage edges to make her quilts. See we quilters are a thrifty bunch.
Q: What does the abbreviation WOF mean?
A: It stands for width of fabric. Most cotton quilting fabric measures from 42" to 44" in width. Some patterns and instructions use this acronym in their instructions. If you are told in a pattern instruction to cut a strip the WOF, it means that you can fold the selvage edges together and cut across the fabric from selvage to selvage.
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