Fabric Prices
#11
Lordy, I swore I wouldn't buy anymore, but all I wanted was some tiny lace for a baby blanket. Now, you know the rest of the story! When it comes to a fabric store, I'm like a dog passing a tree.......I don't!
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Ruth
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Ruth
#12
It will be a forced boycott anyway if we can't afford the fabric. The LQS should refuse to pay the price for the fabric. The LQS have a huge markup. I know a lady in oregon who has a small shop and sales the same fabric we buy for 9 and 10+ a yard. She sells everything in her shop for $7 a yard. doesn't matter who makes it.
I will only look for good sales online or Sales at the LQS, I won't pay over 10 a yard, no way.
I will only look for good sales online or Sales at the LQS, I won't pay over 10 a yard, no way.
#15
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Don't blame the "greedy" fabric manufacturers. It is my opinion that the mark up by the quilt shop is no more than most product mark ups. Wholesale prices on most fabric has been running around $4.50-$4.65 and with the usual 100% mark up brings it to the high $9.00 range. Check the fabric from those shops who offer it less than this and make sure it is current patterns. Flat folds can be purchased from most wholesale fabric companies for dollars less but may be prior seasons or end runs. To my knowledge there are perhaps two or three fabric printers (for quilting fabric) still in the US and they are able to print limited number of colors. Printing went overseas years ago. Some shops who offer drastic discounts buy surplus fabric of a manufacturers lines but rarely current lines. One printing company near where I live felt enormous impact when WallMart discontinued carrying fabric and as a result had to close their US printing facility. I know one fabric wholesaler who has a basement of bolts of fabric for $1.85-$3.00 a yd wholesale. But would the quilter buy it since it is all prior years designs. The prices at Pennsylvania quilt shops are always low, but are the fabrics current? It's going to take some creative shopping to weather the increase but we can. Just my ranting a bit about what is happening to our craft.
#17
Originally Posted by SherriB
If it is quality fabric and the price is great, I don't mind if it is last years fabrics. Most of my fabric sits in my stash for a year or more before I use it.
#19
Originally Posted by Honey
This morning I read (somewhere on the board) that all cotton fabric was going to go up in price. (just once I would love to see something go down :shock: ) Well, I needed to stop at my lqs while I was out and about so I asked the owner about it. She said yes everything cotton would jump in price as of 6/1 :evil: AND she said that they will jump quite a bit. Yippie :cry: When I asked her why, all she said is you can thank Washington. Don't worry, I'm not going to get into politics :wink: This is going to take a big toll on a lot of quilters, myself included. Sure wish I would win the big one so I could "lay in" a huge stash (or at least bigger than I have) before this happens :lol:
#20
I think like everything, inflation and the economy affects the price of things. It's not necessarily Washington's fault, it just happens. I sure hate to see those local quilt shops go under. Makes me sad to hear that. I think the majority of those shops sell their wares at reasonable markup and they don't take advantage of their consumers. They deserve to make money and prosper. And keep us in affordable fabric! It's the greedy folks that ruin it for everyone. They inflate the value of everything and turn people off. We as consumers are not dumb. Those shops will die out because they don't know how to properly market their fabrics. No great loss, right? Good riddance.
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