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The best Christmas fabrics for festive craft projects

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Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year – and the perfect excuse to stock up your craft supplies! Geometric Print Fabric

The best Christmas fabrics for festive craft projects

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas always comes early for crafters thanks to the prepping, planning and shopping required to made handmade Christmas gifts. Yes, you heard right – shopping! The festive season is the perfect excuse to stock up your supplies and one that every Christmas crafter will need in their stash is Christmas fabric.

Whether you use it to make Christmas crafts or to wrap your presents, there are endless ways to make use of Christmas fabric.

Deck the hallways with draping, tie bows around your bannisters – whatever plans you have to bring season’s greetings to your home, Christmas fabric should feature. And there are so many types to choose from.

We’ve created a handy round-up of some of this year’s best Christmas fabrics along with timeless designs that are always on trend, that you can use for a range of Christmas projects.

Some, like the printed PVC from Dunelm can be used as tablecloth, simply cut it to size. You can also choose colours and designs that suit your home to make personalised Christmas sacks.

Consider how you can be more sustainable this Christmas, perhaps you could swap paper wrapping paper for Christmas fabric instead? We’ve got a brilliant tutorial that shows you how to wrap your gifts with fabric. Afterwards, the fabric can be easily re-used, like being incorporated into a quilt.

Feeling festive? Yule be sorry if you don’t snap up Christmas fabrics while you can. Some of the best designs will sell-out so be sure to shop early. Don’t forget you can also visit your local haberdashery in search of Christmas fabrics and other everyday sewing essentials you may need.

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Fairy lights are a seasonal staple. This cute and colourful cotton print Christmas fabric would be great for wrapping gifts, bringing a touch of eco-chic to the celebrations. The recipient can use the fabric again to make their own fabric project too.

Good things in small packages and there's a lot you can make from a fat quarter, not just quilts. This joyous pack contains 20 festive cotton prints. It offers great value for money so is ideal for budget crafters.

One of the coolest Christmas fabrics we've ever seen! Christmas jumpers are a yuletide tradition and this vintage print captures the joy they bring!

Every sewing fan needs some Liberty fabric in their materials stash. These Christmas fabrics by Liberty have a fresh, contemporary colour palette and can be used for so many projects.

This 'Driving Home For Christmas' themed PVC fabric would make a great washable tablecloth. It doesn't fray, too, meaning it's a great material for beginner crafters to work with.

Stripes in candy cane colours are a quintessential Christmas aesthetic. Why not use them to sew these festive Christmas sacks?

Jute is 100% biodegradable so is ideal fabric for making sustainable crafts. This winter printed roll would work well as a table runner.

Watch little one's cherub faces light up when they see these super cute gingerbread fabrics in use. We thing they'd be great for stitched Christmas tree decorations, fabric bunting and even soft toys.

Brrrrr! Though we can't guarantee a white Christmas, these polar bears would make a great edition to your Christmas interiors, perhaps sewing some simple cushions?

Nordic patterns continue to be a popular Christmas aesthetic. These delightful fat quarters would be great for making easy fabric tablemats for the main event – Christmas dinner!

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The best Christmas fabrics for festive craft projects

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