Originally Posted by lue
$18 per yard for quilting cotton? Where do you live? I can see why you think $9 per yard is a good price!! Bunnyquilter, where is the stash under which you live?
The people who own the shop that prices by the half yard sound like nice people. Thanks for responding so non-defensively.
Thanks for your nice comment, Lue.
If you look around our shop, you'll see that the large majority of our fabrics aren't over $8.50/yd. The ones that are, are either new fabrics that have gone up astronomically in the last couple of months, or our Japanese screen prints that normally retail for 11-12/yd (Daiwabos) or over 15/yd (Lecien).
If you compare our prices on stuff that we both carry, with big online stores like Hancocks or Fabric.com, we're at the same or lower prices.
Many of our fabrics are high-end quilt-shop only fabrics that you won't see at the bigger outlets mentioned above, because they're not allowed to sell them.
We strive to carry only the highest quality fabrics from manufacturers who really care about the quilting business and orient their product lines to discriminating quilters who want the best quality. We do carry a few lower quality items, like Quilting Treasures and Blank Quilting, to round out our lines and appeal to a broader base. If you compare our prices on QT's licensed products, for instance, you'll find our prices are a few cents lower per yard than fabric.com.
You'll notice that these are the lowest quality goods we carry, and those goods are comparable in quality, or better, than goods from Moda, Connecting Threads, and the top quality stuff carried at Joannes.
Our higher quality goods, like those from Maywood, Fabric Freedom, and Hoffman-California are priced, in our store, lower than in other online stores.
So you really have to compare the same goods if you're comparing prices across stores.
Take a minute to look at our customer comments page as well, you'll notice that we have a ton of happy customers. We post on that page about 1 out of a hundred happy customer emails we get.
Our goal is to treat our customers fairly, give good value for your dollar, give top quality customer service, and do it at prices we all can live with.
Just as an aside, we've never taken a dollar of salary out of this business, and after three years, it's finally almost breaking even. We live on our retirement incomes from our previous jobs. So this is a labor of love for us, not really a money making venture.
For all of you that have taken a look today, we thank you very much and hope you keep checking back. For those of you who placed orders, they'll be shipped tomorrow, and we're very grateful for your business.
Thanks again to the mods and admins here for providing such a great board!