many sewing projects require a wide fabric that is not accessible at every fabric store. this fabric is typically known as extra wide fabric, pretty simple to remember. when you can’t find this fabric in any of your local stores your only option used to be to use seams to join pieces of fabric to have a wide enough piece. this often meant buying more fabric than you needed to match prints on the fabric. if you could find a wide enough fabric, you usually had to settle on an extra wide fabric that is not exactly what you had in mind. there is a money saving alternative to buying 