Moda Muslin Fabric

Are you looking for muslin fabric by the yard to use for the background or backing of your quilt? Do you need muslin for apparel sewing? Missouri Star carries a variety of Moda Muslin options to meet your quilting and sewing needs.

Do you want natural, warm white, or optic white muslin? Are you looking for 44 inch wide, 90 inch wide muslin fabric, or 120 inch wide Moda Muslin? Would you like Moda Muslin fabric with 60 x 60 thread count? This means that there are 60 warp threads and 60 weft threads, or 120 threads, per square inch–a typical thread count for a shirt. Or would you like a Moda Muslin 200 count? A 200 thread count fabric has 100 threads going each direction or, more often, has 80 warp threads and 120 weft threads per square inch. Bedding often uses fabric with a higher thread count because of the wear and tear it receives.

Are you planning to do some apparel sewing with a costly length of fabric? Have you chosen a pattern that you have never used before? Are you nervous about cutting into the fabric? Professional sewists often make a draft version of a pattern before they create it in an expensive fabric. This practice is called “making a muslin.” Missouri Star has 44 inch wide muslin fabric by the yard that would work well for creating a “muslin”–as these test garments are called. Because muslin cloth dyes so well, there is no reason why this practice garment can’t be just as stunning and fun to wear as the one you make in the expensive fabric.

Muslin originated in Bangladesh but was first encountered by Europeans near Mosul, Iraq in the 1600’s. They named the cloth after that city and took it back to Europe with them, where it became wildly popular. Today this versatile fabric is used in cooking and cheesemaking, home decor, medicine, stagecraft, and sewing! At Missouri Star, we are proud to carry Moda Muslin for all your sewing needs.