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Old 01-26-2010, 06:08 PM
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newfiegirl
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My Walmart no longer carries fabric. Leaves JoAnns and the local quilt shops. You have to be extremely careful at JoAnns; a lot of the Keepsake they carry comes from Asia (mostly China) and is not very good, although I do buy some of the more expensive fabrics from other suppliers when they go on sale. I have purchased fabrics from Connecting Threads and so far have been happy with them, plus you can buy from fat quarter up and no fabric is more than $5.96/yd. They say all their fabric is US grown and it does have a nice feel and a very close weave. Problem is I like to see my fabrics in hand before I buy. So that leaves the local quilt shops; I check their sale racks - have gotten Jinny Byer at half price and fat quarters at bargain prices. Plus the women who work there are fantastic when it comes to questions and they use rotary cutters and a cutting board to cut the fabric. So I would say if you can, stick to a local shop; all your hard work will not have been in vain.
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