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Thread: Enlightening Fabric Shopping Trip... and Disappointing

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  1. 03-13-2012, 04:05 AM #1
    faykilgore
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    Quote Originally Posted by QandE2010 View Post
    One of our LQS in town is closing, as owner is retiring. She has all fabrics listed for $5.00 yr for anything. She carries a VERY large selection of quality fabric. I've been there 3 times in last week & have purchased at least 25 different fabrics with minimum of 4 yds each. I am so excited to get them washed, but I have them spread out on my dining table & am just basking in their beauty.
    We'd love to see a picture of all that! I'm sorry for your loss and congrats on your booty!
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  2. 03-12-2012, 05:47 PM #2
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    I was also at WalMart and found their fabrics were $7.97 per yd there. There were less expensive cottons too. But the better quality fabrics were more spendy. I did forget to add that I actually did find what I was searching for at WalMart!!
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    the quality is just not there like it use to be
    cotton is so high right now they are making the fabric as cheap as they can
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    There are a few stores that I just won't buy fabric in anymore no matter what , as I can't believe they can get it that thin. A few times I was lured by a nice looking print, only to find the thinness to be just shocking.
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  5. 03-12-2012, 10:30 PM #5
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    Good reason to shop your stash or watch estate sales! I visit http://www.estatesales.net/ each week and check the listings...if it says sewing stuff or fabrics, I go check it out. The fabrics are never the current modern/contemporary lines, but I have found some amazing buys within my budget!
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    I have a shop in my home...as I was doing my tax workup this year, I stopped long enough to total up what I had spent and what I got year before last as opposed to the same question for last year: I was appalled and SHOCKED to find that my yardage was about the same, but even though I had exclusively shopped sales of all kinds and did whatever I could to control costs, my costs were TWICE AS MUCH!!! My accountant just said, "Well, things of all kinds are increasing in cost." And my reply was "Twice as much???" So, I guess the solution is to refuse to pay exhorbitant costs (despite all the excuses about the cotton crops being so bad, etc. ad nauseum....) and shop our stashes until something happens to bring these folks to their senses....JMHO...
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  7. 03-14-2012, 03:26 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Julie in WA View Post
    Good reason to shop your stash or watch estate sales! I visit http://www.estatesales.net/ each week and check the listings...if it says sewing stuff or fabrics, I go check it out. The fabrics are never the current modern/contemporary lines, but I have found some amazing buys within my budget!
    Thank you so much for this site. It seems to be a fantastic way of adding to stashes and saving time.
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  8. 03-14-2012, 08:16 AM #8
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    Need to check carefully

    Along with many of you I am finding poor quality cottons in many stores, that said however sometimes there are some really nice ones too. Even some LQS have some pieces not so good. My biggest problem is pattern or color matching; it seems everytime I need certain color schemes I get suckered into buying an inferior quality just to match color!! I should know better but I often cave.

    I think the answer will be to shop sales where good quality cotton is to be had and just be on the lookout all the time. Do you think feedback to shops and have them pass on to mfgs will be of any help?

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  9. 03-14-2012, 08:58 AM #9
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    Thats one of the best ways to build your stash. It is so hard now to find good quality cottons at a fair price. Guess that is the price we have to pay for progress and shipping all our shops and factories overseas. No pride in making the product any longer. Just pieces of crap that won't work for us quilters.



    Quote Originally Posted by Julie in WA View Post
    Good reason to shop your stash or watch estate sales! I visit http://www.estatesales.net/ each week and check the listings...if it says sewing stuff or fabrics, I go check it out. The fabrics are never the current modern/contemporary lines, but I have found some amazing buys within my budget!
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  10. 03-13-2012, 12:05 AM #10
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    I agree with Julie, shop that stash.
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