When ordering fabric online doesn’t quite go as planned…

Ordering fabric online is like jumping off an airplane on a parachute or getting married. You don’t know if you are screwed until you do it. Thankfully I’ve done both and those two turned out really well. Ordering fabric online however can be a BIG hit or a costly miss. I know every time we order fabric online it’s like rolling the dice. You don’t know what is going to happen.

I ordered a beautiful fabric from Mood Fabrics (not bashing Mood! I actually love them and order often) a few months back… it’s called Fanciful Fawn. It had everything I wanted… the right price, the right color, the right pattern as I was making a Mave Skirt from True Bias and I even ordered a swatch… trying to make sure that it was exactly what I wanted. The swatch was perfect, but the 2.5 yards that I ordered weren’t quite what I expected.

A comparison between the swatch (right) and the 2.5 yards I ordered (left).

Is it the end of the world? No, I still made a beautiful skirt that I wore throughout summer (quite often I will add), but it's a reminder that some times no matter what ordering fabric online can be a miss…. even when you order a swatch.