Favorite Online Fabric Shop for Quality Fabric
#71
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Area 52
Posts: 185
I love thousandsofbolts. And I love their cart where it tells you how many more yards you can add for the same shipping cost. Their shipping is unreasonably reasonable. I usually order a couple hundred $$ at a time, and their shipping only adds around .25 to .30 cents more per yard.
They are also very quick to let you know if they're short on something and ask if you still want the fabric. I recently elected to take a fabric even though it was 1 yard short of what I ordered. My refund was processed within hours, not days.
I also love fabric.com and I especially love their free shipping.
equilter is nice, but their shipping is high, imo.
They are also very quick to let you know if they're short on something and ask if you still want the fabric. I recently elected to take a fabric even though it was 1 yard short of what I ordered. My refund was processed within hours, not days.
I also love fabric.com and I especially love their free shipping.
equilter is nice, but their shipping is high, imo.
#72
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Oceanside, CA
Posts: 847
I keep going back to HawthorneThreads.com. Can't beat the prices they have for topline mfgs. Plus I never pay more than $5 shipping, and I buy quite a bit. It's a husband and wife store and they ship usually the day I order, if it's early enough. I'm California and they are NY.
#73
Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
Originally Posted by memaw4
I had NO clue about this! I will go back and read "about us" and just maybe e-mail them and ask. Thank you so much for pointing this out to me. I'm so sorry if I in any way misled anyone. :-(
I would LOVE to be able to buy and sell fabrics that are made in my own country. (This is not a comment AGAINST other countries; everyone needs to be able to make a living.) It's just that I would like to help keep jobs here in my own country if at all possible.
So I started to look for other companies who might still be printing fabrics here in the US. As far as I know, the only company who prints cotton quilting fabrics is Santee. Their fabrics are sold in JoAnn's; they are some of the oldies-but-goodies that you will find on the calico wall. And, though Santee prints here in the US, all the greige goods are still imported (probably from Pakistan, India, or China).
A lot of people have thought that Connecting Threads' fabrics are USA made. It's quite possible that a few years back, they were. (I really only started following this issue closely once Cranston closed their mill.) Because I had read here on the forum about CT's fabrics being USA made, I've been watching CT's site, and have seen how their product descriptions have changed from "cotton grown in North America" to... nothing about where the fabrics are sourced or printed.
As a retailer, the issue of where the fabric comes from is... disheartening. I confess that I do love the quality of the imported fabrics (though Cranston's was very nice too). But I am acutely aware that I'm contributing to the US trade deficit, but there is nothing that I can do about it.
As to fabrics that are made start-to-finish in the US, there is one company that sells them: http://www.nationaltextile.net/index.html
The thing is, they are all poly/cotton blends, though, and you know how we quilters greatly prefer cotton.
If you do e-mail CT to ask about the source of their fabrics, please share their answer with us here on the forum
:)
#74
Originally Posted by wildyard
I ordered from QKO... Quilt Kits Online... a member of this board, and the fabrics were the best I have ever touched!!!
I have also ordered from Connecting Threads and Fabric.com and tho I have no complaints about their fabrics, they do not compare to those I got from QKO.
I have also ordered from Connecting Threads and Fabric.com and tho I have no complaints about their fabrics, they do not compare to those I got from QKO.
#75
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Central NY
Posts: 859
My last order was 6 yards for $38.50 and the shipping was $13.09 I call that excessive. Previous order was 15 yards for $65.95 and the shipping was $13.98. Obviously, the more you order the more reasonable the shipping becomes. It's worth it because brand name fabrics are half price, roughly, over what my local QS charges.
I also love that they offer close up views and links to other colorways in the same print, and all fabrics in that collection. To me they are head and shoulders above any other online fabric store.
I also love that they offer close up views and links to other colorways in the same print, and all fabrics in that collection. To me they are head and shoulders above any other online fabric store.
Originally Posted by BigDog
I love thousandsofbolts. And I love their cart where it tells you how many more yards you can add for the same shipping cost. Their shipping is unreasonably reasonable. I usually order a couple hundred $$ at a time, and their shipping only adds around .25 to .30 cents more per yard.
They are also very quick to let you know if they're short on something and ask if you still want the fabric. I recently elected to take a fabric even though it was 1 yard short of what I ordered. My refund was processed within hours, not days.
I also love fabric.com and I especially love their free shipping.
equilter is nice, but their shipping is high, imo.
They are also very quick to let you know if they're short on something and ask if you still want the fabric. I recently elected to take a fabric even though it was 1 yard short of what I ordered. My refund was processed within hours, not days.
I also love fabric.com and I especially love their free shipping.
equilter is nice, but their shipping is high, imo.
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