Cora - Sew Your Fabric Stash

I did find this app helpful several years ago but it is no longer being supported and the export CSV button just throws you out of the program. Hours of input wasted.

I’ve been using for about a year after the precious app I used was discontinued and I lost my entire stash! I am only using Cora for yarn and crafting books. I made a little cheat sheet so the way I enter data filters for my needs. Here’s how I tweaked it: Location=Brand or Book: Title Weight=#1-6 Type=Sock, DK, WW, Chunky, Book Content=SW Merino, Nylon etc. without percentages Design=Solid, Gradient, Striping Colors=List colors or Hand-Dyed Sort Color=Main Color Length=Enter amount Width=Yarn Weight #1-6 Scrap Amount=None, Small, Large Brand=Dye Lot Designer=Colorway Collection=Collection I sort by A-Z, Type, Location. I take a photo of everything and it’s great!

Very easy to use. I have a lot more fabric than I thought. Love the App for organizing my stash.

I was looking forward to using this and spent a good amount of time adding my entire fabric inventory which is quite large. I updated the app and the entire inventory disappeared except for 7 items. Not sure what happened. 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s a nice app to organize fabric. I do wish it had better filtering capabilities. The ability to filter by name/designer/collection would be so much more useful than most of the options offered. That way I can sort all my fabric by designer instead of everything being all mixed together. That way if I want to see say all my BackStitch fabric I can filter to see just that. This way as well, as I add new designs from particular designers they will all be together, and not mixed up. The option to press and hold to reorganize on the grid screen would also be nice, if adding new filtering capabilities isn’t an option. That way I can organize them to my liking. I could really care less to organize my fabric by cost or the dates they were acquired/added.

Because of these two issues, even after having this app on my phone for nearly a YEAR, I haven’t used it. I realize I am sorely missing out,however as we are are about to get new phones, can the developers please tell WHY I SHOULD USE CORA? I am being truly sincere in asking, and would appreciate a well- thought out reply. Thank you very much.

This is a great app. I am quilter with hundreds of fabrics. Cora helps me catalog and sort them so I always know what I have. I would recommend it to anyone who has a fabric stash.

I love this app! The thing that would make it better would be if you could entering fractions like 1/3 or 7/8.

I didn’t want to like this app because I never pay over a couple of bucks for apps. The thing is, it’s actually worth it! My 5 year old daughter and I had fun cataloguing my fabric stash. We are about 1/4 way through the main collection and the little summary page tells me we are at over 80yards. I have a lovely collection of pictures on my screen which is motivating. I used the location function to determine not just location of unused fabric but also to set the location as “finished” - I’d love a way to set that as an actual function rather than my work around to keep motivating me to turn fabric into things! I’m not sure how big the photo files are and whether memory on my iPhone will be an issue. I think it could be great to add a notions/trim section for a full inventory. I use “other” as a label for Linings. That’s what I like about this app- you could do more- but you don’t NEED to. It is so quick to log each fabric. If a fabric is not worth the minute to list, it is probably not worth having in my “keep” pile- which has been a good discipline. I’m enjoying seeing what I own (and had forgotten about) and my daughter enjoyed finding fabric that she liked enough for us to turn it into a dress. Quickest sewing project ever! Thanks for helping organize my sewing room!

I read about this app on a Facebook quilting board. I have an extensive stash of fabric so I won’t enter every single piece. But I will enter my favorites and where they are. I just hope that this app doesn’t go the way of other apps I’ve purchased. And either stop being updated for new OS or start charging me a monthly or annual fee to use it! That would be extremely disappointing.