Shawl Every Day 2021 - Day 44 - Interfacings and stabilizers

There are a lot of different products out there to make fabric stiffer or have different properties. They are often used in bag making or things like fabric baskets. Many are fusible, which means you can iron them on to the main fabric and they sort of glue together, while other ones are sew-in, which you have to manually attach to the main fabric via sewing. Here are the ones I have in my shop:

• SF101 - This is my main stabilizer for cotton fabrics. It adds just a little bit of heft while keeping the fabric flexible.

• 987F - This adds a little more structure to bags without it being completely stiff. It’s almost like fusing a piece of batting to the fabric.

• 808 Craft Fuse - This creates a fabric that is sort of like fabric-y cardstock. You can flex it and bend it, but it generally stands on its own.

• 70/71F - I have both the fusible (71F) and non-fusible/sew-in (70) versions of this. It’s the heavy duty stuff most often used for the bottom of bags or sides of a basket.

• Flex-Foam - This is mostly used for bags and I don’t use it a ton. There is a fusible version of this, but I haven’t tried it.

• Isul-Bright - This is basically batting with a thin metallic layer in the middle. It’s used for insulating things like totes, lunch bags, and casserole dish covers.

• 805 Wonder Under - Not an interfacing per se, but it fuses fabric to other fabric without adding much stiffness. Most often used for applique. It comes with a paper backing, so you fuse the one side to the fabric, peel the paper off, then fuse that new fabric+Wonder Under to another piece of fabric.

Shawl pattern is Schwarm by Hanna Maciejewska