Be grateful for our relatively inexpensive fabric in the US
#25
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Originally Posted by merry
Originally Posted by aurora41
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
Everyone in Europe and Canada, please remember that there are several of your sisters/brothers here on this Board living in the US who are happy to help out shipping fabric to you. Even with shipping charges it is TONS cheaper than what you are paying in your home country.
#26
Most fabrics in Australia start from $20 per metre up to $26 per metre. Getting a nice fabric for backing without paying that much money is almost impossible. You have to buy up when there is a sale and it goes down to around $10 per metre.
#28
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Ramsgate. Kent England
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Originally Posted by Crabby Patty
How do those of you who live outside the US afford to quilt? Is your wages in line with fabric costs? Ours are for the most part except those of us who are on limited income of SS. The gov. hasn't seen fit to give us a raise for a couple years. They say there is no raise in the cost of living.LOL I don't know what rock they are living under.
#29
We in America truely are blessed. We moan and groan about the high prices we have to pay for almost everything. If I had to pay 20 or 25 or even more for a yard (meter)for fabric, I could not afford to quilt for pleasure and fun like I do now. I would have to do it for a business and I am not that good yet.
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