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02-05-2011, 07:24 AM
#11
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Behind my sewing machine
Posts: 7,202
I only buy stuff on line when there is free shipping. I haven't bought fabric but I buy lots of other stuff from Amazon and Joanns. If your state does not have sales tax, you do not pay sales tax no matter where you buy it from.
Originally Posted by bamamama
I've never shopped online for fabric. You'd have to pay shippig on top of the price of the fabric, but if its out of state I suppose you save the sales tax.
02-05-2011, 07:53 AM
#14
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Iowa
Posts: 314
I try to support my local shops whenever possible, but I do shop online as well when there are good sales or free shipping. Try to get the best quality fabric you can - I'm now finding that quilts I made years ago (before cotton fabrics were as prevalent as they are now)are starting to disintegrate. Primarily it's where I've used muslin instead of a sturdier cotton.
02-05-2011, 08:51 AM
#15
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 176
I usually find my "oh my" pieces online, then fill in with stuff from Walmart or Joanns. Every now and then I get out of town and hit Hancocks, but mostly its local stuff. The Joann's in my town just closed down and I got TONS of stuff that I probably wouldn't have bought, but it was on closeout.
Have fun shopping!
Have fun shopping!
02-05-2011, 09:56 AM
#17
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,646
I shop on line mostly, since I am in a very small rural town and don't have a good sized fabric shop nearby. Closest would be about 4 hr drive 1 way.
Either that or wait 1 a year when we visit our kids in Kansas and shop there
Either that or wait 1 a year when we visit our kids in Kansas and shop there
02-05-2011, 10:45 AM
#19
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Front row
Posts: 14,646
I shop anywhere there is fabric to be bought or looked at. Walmart, thrift stores, shirt clearances at men's shops and yard sales. I love Connecting Threads online shop, you can request a free catalog on their website and get free ones from Keepsakes Quilting and Hancock's of Paducah. Get them! They are inspiring, full of quilt pictures and projects. (I never pay shipping from Connecting Threads!) Do a shop hop: one is online right now: Fabshophop.com and you will have all the quilt shops online right at your fingertips. Sign up for the newsletters and you'll know about a fabric sale in advanced.
02-05-2011, 11:01 AM
#20
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Orchard Park, NY (near Buffalo, which is near Niagara Falls)
Posts: 3,884
Originally Posted by bamamama
You'd have to pay shipping on top of the price of the fabric, but if its out of state I suppose you save the sales tax.
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