Cotton Prices
#13
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Arizona
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Originally Posted by krabadan
I'm embarrassed to say I have so much fabric I don't think I can use it all in my lifetime. Trouble is I know I'll buy more.
#14
Originally Posted by e4
If prices go up 25-50 cents a year, then it is not the price of cotton alone. It may be cost of manufacturing or they may be using "price of cotton" as an excuse to raise prices whatever they want.
#15
Aside from all the practical reasons prices are on the rise, it's still sticker shock. I was online checking out a new site earlier and one of the lines was priced at $15 a yard. A floral print, nothing special.
I know overseas and our neighbors to the North pay far more than we do but I'm still spoiled by $7/yd and under prices at my LQS when I was at the height of my buying bliss.
Now I just get charms mostly and keep to small cuts on the occasions that I have money to spare for fabs. Thankfully I've got a nice bit to choose from that I'm not sweating the "crisis" as such for now. But I sure miss the carefree spending on what caught my eye.
I know overseas and our neighbors to the North pay far more than we do but I'm still spoiled by $7/yd and under prices at my LQS when I was at the height of my buying bliss.
Now I just get charms mostly and keep to small cuts on the occasions that I have money to spare for fabs. Thankfully I've got a nice bit to choose from that I'm not sweating the "crisis" as such for now. But I sure miss the carefree spending on what caught my eye.
#16
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 3,155
I visited a fabric shop in western NC on Fri. pad 4.99 for batiks, other fabric was 3.99, 4.99 and 5.99 for flat fold per yard. Bolt fabric was 4.99 to 7.99 per yard. Some of the fabric was same as I saw in LOS for 9.50 per yard.
What is wrong with shops? Why to they not have better prices. I realize they need profit, but give us a break sometimes.
Can't remember name of shop.
What is wrong with shops? Why to they not have better prices. I realize they need profit, but give us a break sometimes.
Can't remember name of shop.
#17
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Orchard Park, NY (near Buffalo, which is near Niagara Falls)
Posts: 3,884
Originally Posted by QKO
Nan, I don't know where you're buying your fabric, but ours have gone up a lot more than 10 to 15 cents a yard. We've already seen 25 cents a yard so far this year, and suppliers are telling us it'll be at least that much more in the next 6 months or so. :-( :-( :-(
Not good...
Not good...
I would say we've seen increases across the board of about 50 cents / yard this year, and we haven't reached the end of the year yet.
Now, when hubby says "You have too much inventory!" I just tell him it is all an investment, and where else can I earn a 10% return on my money this year?
#18
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Dunwoody, GA
Posts: 157
.... Apparently, the people who work in their mills are no longer willing to work at slave labor rates. :mrgreen:[/quote]
I read recently the Chinese go into a provence and build a mill, work the people for slave labor rates. When it becomes a problem and the employees want more money. they just close that mill and build another in another provence and the process starts again. I'm sure after THAT word gets around, people stop complaining about anything and just work.
I read recently the Chinese go into a provence and build a mill, work the people for slave labor rates. When it becomes a problem and the employees want more money. they just close that mill and build another in another provence and the process starts again. I'm sure after THAT word gets around, people stop complaining about anything and just work.
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