Cotton prices expected to double
09-18-2010, 04:03 AM
#31
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I read 15%, but you can bet that the commodity market will top that. I have 7 yards of a dark blue rose which I was about to give away, (isn't my particular color and don't know why I bought it) but I think I will just keep it and find a use for it. Time to use my JoAnns coupons good for a one cut of fabricl (no size limit)) especially for background fabrics.
09-18-2010, 04:27 AM
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This is such sad news, but I have not put foot in a LQS in years around here. When I'm at a show or on a trip (Seattle) I do shop some LQS's. I made a resolution this year to use only from my stash. I've been pretty good and only bought some sales on-line about 3 times. It's more of a frabic fix than a gotta have. It's gotten pretty fun searching for fabric ~$3/yd. I don't buy it if I dont like it though. That eliminates about 1/2 the offerings in the clearance category. 8-)
09-18-2010, 04:50 AM
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What happens when the demand goes down because the price is too high? In the meantime, we will all have to use up our stash fabrics and recycle old clothes. I have already started hoarding. Maybe these will become the "utility" quilts of our generation. Personally, I do not think our quilters' cottons are by any means cheap, it is the clothing market that will suffer the most.
09-18-2010, 05:50 AM
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Originally Posted by JenniePenny
On my way to this board this evening, I scanned the headlines at MSN.com and saw an article about cotton prices on the rise due to low supplies and high demand. Not good news for any of us.
Well, many of us have said that we could live to be 115 before we ever used up our stash. :?
Well, many of us have said that we could live to be 115 before we ever used up our stash. :?
One decade ago when I closed my shop in Dallas TX most of our highest prices were in the $8.25 range. Double sigh.
Now I'm in sticker shock when I upend a bolt at the LQS and see $10+ written on it. Thank God for stash!
Jan in VA
09-18-2010, 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by raptureready
Originally Posted by tcnmom
When is the price increase coming?
You know how quilts can be dated due to some of the circumstances going on in the world, certain fabrics/colors weren't available during some wars, etc.? Well we as quilters may have to shift away from the 100% and become really creative in our fabric choices. A hundred or two hundred years down the road Quiltologists will look at the quilts of 2012 and say, "We can tell this was quilted between 2010 and 2015 because there was a cotton shortage which caused prices to skyrocket."
But as a farmer's daughter I can tell you this: If the prices of cotton skyrocket the farmers will plant more of it.
You may be happy to know that the store is empty and so is the Michael's craft store next door. Obviously, I am not the only person angry over the rip-off.
People are smart, smarter than the store managers. (I like seeing people reacting smartly to the abusive practices, I like it a lot!)
I bought 1/2 a yard of an accent material on sale because I needed exactly that amount of that fabric. I did not browse.
It's a good thing I have built my stash. Right now I will get a few more smaller needed items online and on sale. That's going to be it for many years.
People will charge what the market will bear.
Let's not bear it.
09-18-2010, 07:48 AM
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As a quilter and a wife to a cotton farmer, all the costs incidental to growing cotton have increased dramatically over the past few years, while the price per pound we have received for our cotton is still very low. I hate paying $9.50 per yard for cotton fabric or $34.95 for a Moda layer cake that says "made in Korea".
09-18-2010, 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by bmkaz
As a quilter and a wife to a cotton farmer, all the costs incidental to growing cotton have increased dramatically over the past few years, while the price per pound we have received for our cotton is still very low. I hate paying $9.50 per yard for cotton fabric or $34.95 for a Moda layer cake that says "made in Korea".
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