When I read what you said about Connecting Threads only selling fabric that is USA-made, I had to find out more! So I went to their website, and sure enough, they said the cotton is grown in the US, and it is woven in the US and printed in the US too.
That's pretty astounding, because from what I had heard (even from fabric sales reps), the only mill that is printing in the US is Santee. (Cranston/VIP now prints everything overseas, having closed their printing and finishing operations in June.) I've been told that all the cotton combing equipment literally left the US and went overseas a decade or more ago. Well, gee!
Anybody out there know anything more about this? I'd sure rather buy fabric that is made in the US, rather than what's printed in China or Korea or Japan. (Not that I have any problem with the quality of the overseas-printed goods, it's just a "buy local, feed your own neighbors" moral concern.)