I have bad news.......
#21
Originally Posted by everybody's mother
Originally Posted by Grama Lehr
Originally Posted by np3
Originally Posted by leatheflea
I read somewhere that the cost of cotton is going up due to floods overseas. It has nothing to do with the buy out.
#22
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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I went to JoAnn's here in Corpus Christi, looking for a fussy cut ruler, they had quilting supplies in 5 different locations throughout the store. Haven't noticed extreme price jumps lately. Hope we in the US don't go the way of the Swiss with fabric $25 a yd. We'll revert to using old clothing to quilt like our granmothers did.
#24
I will be going to other shops if Joann's is raising the prices that much! I am not all that thrilled with them anyway! Today a local QS had 30% off the whole store...now I wish I had bought more.
#25
And here I am trying to reclaim my dining room from the fabric I bought when my brother closed his store. Maybe I need to rethink and instead of trying to sell in the classifieds here I should be finding more inventive places to stash it for the future. Bird in hand.... :)
Hummm there is that shower in the spare bath that we never use. Had to go and check.. Totes fit and stack nicely 4 high and the shower curtain covers it all. Out of sight out of DH's mind. LOL
Hummm there is that shower in the spare bath that we never use. Had to go and check.. Totes fit and stack nicely 4 high and the shower curtain covers it all. Out of sight out of DH's mind. LOL
#26
Yes the cost of cotton has gone up and we'll also see online stores having to raise their prices accordingly too as the manufacturer's raise theirs...ongoing cycle.
Take heart though, I have an Australian friend who pays almost $20-$25/ yard for fabric! LOL, when she comes to visit me every 2-3 years she stocks up like a madwoman.
Take heart though, I have an Australian friend who pays almost $20-$25/ yard for fabric! LOL, when she comes to visit me every 2-3 years she stocks up like a madwoman.
#28
Originally Posted by laureneberhard
Seems to be going the way of gasoline $$$!
Gas, however, is something else. $3.00 a gallon. Here in St. Paul as other places there is a card we get from Roundy's, our grocery store, where they take off 10 cents on so much bought at the store. A few days ago, my husband bought gas at BP (which I don't want to buy from in the first place) for $1.30 off the $2.96 a gallon price. Now, they have discontinued the gas thing at Roundy's. Hey, you out there - remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon and cigarettes were even cheaper? I don't smoke anymore - haven't for a million years, but I still remember the prices. I remember practically filling a tank for $1.00.
So, we will look for bargains any where we can and pride ourselves in the good deal we got.
KEEP MAKING AND PROCESSING OUR OWN COTTON IN OUR OWN COUNTRY. I'd rather pay more for fabric made in our own country and keep people in work and keep our own country going. It seems to me that quilters are going to be the ones that are going to save this country. Edie
#30
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Georgia
Posts: 253
Have you tried fabric.com in Marietta, Ga? I was always leary about shopping on line for fabric because I like to actually see the fabric. Sometimes the colors aren't really true. I've bought from them several times and have always been very happy with whatever I bought there. They do have a return policy as well. My pet pieve is buying plaid and it's cut at an angle so there's usually some waste. They don't cut like that.
They also have some really good cleance prices.
They also have some really good cleance prices.
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