FABCYCLE

This week’s drop brings back some of our daintiest, prettiest vintage lace trims.

The kind that bring back memories and have you dreaming of frilly dresses, soft camisoles or slinky lingerie.

There are tiny scallops, florals, stretch lace, trims still on their original cards and a few bolder pieces too.

Join us this Friday, July 31, from 4–7 pm for our free monthly Sewcial!

Bring a project and use our sewing machines, serger, table space, notions and scraps while sewing with other makers.

It’s our last Sewcial before Frocktails, so expect lots of outfit planning and behind-the-scenes chatter :)

The countdown is on for Frocktails 2026: Wear What You Love, happening Friday, August 14 at the Sun Wah Centre in Chinatown, Vancouver.

The theme is Wear What You Love.

Handmade, altered, quilted, upcycled, thrifted, costumed, mended, dramatic, practical, sentimental, experimental, or anything in between, if you love it, wear it.

One of our favourite things is opening boxes of vintage sewing patterns.

Some arrive neatly organized in folders. Others come from sewing rooms that have been collecting ideas for decades.

Then comes the fun part.

We start flipping through the envelopes and suddenly we’re travelling through decades of fashion.

This week, we added over 100 vintage sewing patterns to the website, and there are some absolute gems hiding in the collection.

This weekend, we’re featuring a specially curated collection full of bag-making fabrics, accessories, and hardware.

You’ll find webbing, buckles, handles, closures, vinyls, clear fabrics, waterproof-style materials, sturdy fabrics, and other really useful finds for totes, pouches, backpacks, cases, and more.

If bag making is your thing, this is an amazing drop to browse!

We curated a special collection of clasps, hooks and eyes, cups, and specialized elastics for all you undergarment makers.

So if your forte is lingerie making, bra making, swimwear, dancewear, activewear, or even mending your favourite undergarments, click the link below and have fun digging through the collection.

We added a new option to make it easier to save your purchases to your Sewjo stash.

After you place an order, check your confirmation email for the 'Add to stash' button.
Click it, sign in or sign up, and then open the Sewjo app to see your stash.

It’s a bead-heavy Midweek Drop and the serotonin is unreal.

Plastic, glass, Swarovski, tiny seed beads, big statement beads — all that colour and texture doing that little “tickle your brain” thing the second they pour out.
Go peek. Your brain will light up. ✨

This week’s midweek drop is full of colour, texture, and very good little details.

We just added a fresh collection of vintage ribbons, the kind of trims that make even the simplest project feel a little more special.

These are the kinds of ribbons you tuck into your stash because you know they’ll find their moment: tied into a bow, stitched onto a hem, added to a handmade gift, layered into a costume, used on a bag, a quilt label, a sleeve, a neckline, a hair ribbon, or anything that needs a little extra charm.

We opened a Facebook group called FABCYCLE SEWING GROUP!

This Facebook group is our community space to inspire one another, support our fellow makers, and mostly, to connect over the love of everything fabrics, sewing, and creating our own projects from textile waste.

We hope you accept this invitation to join as we will be posting sneak peeks, really cool (and often weird and wonderful) things we get, sewing challenges, and exciting updates! :)