Originally Posted by pumpkinpatchquilter
That's true I'm sure cost factors into it as well. A lot of quilters from the UK order online from the US to save on fabric cost. Even after shipping you may still save quite a bit by ordering overseas.
I've done that occasionally to get a certain fabric, but the shipping costs tend to be rather high, I hate waiting that long for the fabric, and I can't order more than £17's worth at a time in case of getting hit by customs.
Oddly enough, I've been chatting with a shop in England, and they get a surprising number of orders from the US. Yes, it costs far more, but the advantage is that we get fabrics quite a bit later in the UK, so some people do this when a certain fabric has been discontinued in the US but is still on sale in the UK.