marciacp

I have shopped at Hobby Lobby for many years and a lot of their fabric is quilt shop quality, meaning they carry from fabric manufacturer's that sell to quilt shops. Then, they carry their brand of quilt fabric, which is as good as any I have bought. Some of their less expensive fabric is comparable to JoAnn's or Hancock's. Many of my quilts contain Hobby Lobby fabric and I have always been pleased.
Marcia in Crowley

Mariposa

I'm happy with my fabric purchases from them. They have misc. quality, so I choose carefully. I enjoy the discounted prices too! They also have some Kona solids too.

crafty pat

I buy a lot of Hobby Lobby fabrics and have always had the best of luck with them. I have made some beautiful quilts and clothing from them and they ware very well. I make dresses for my DGD from them and they go through many washing's and are still beautiful.

Barb in Louisiana

Their fabric isn't a poor quality, but some of it is harsh feeling kind of like the dye has been painted on. If it's not fairly pliable and soft to begin with, it hasn't gotten any better after I washed it. Having said that, at a price of somewhere around 5 to 9 dollars, I buy fabric there all the time and no one has complained about the quilts I make with the fabric. I really like batiks and wish they carried more of them.

I don't mix actual quilt shop quality fabric with the Hobby Lobby fabric in a quilt. That is when you can begin to tell the difference with some of their fabrics.

OCquilter

Just an FYI, they will let use use the 40% coupon on the reg price of the always 30% off fabric. Joanns used to do this but hasn't for a very long time, maybe even since they were called Cloth World, LOL.

Pat G

I only have access to one Hobby Lobby & only part of the yr. when I'm in Lake Havasu City, Ariz. I love their fabrics & have favorites I stock up on since I use them neutrals & backings a lot. I find them to be very good quality.

Misty's Mom

My HL won't do this

Jeanne S

Their selection is not huge, but I have never had any problems with the fabrics I bought there. I do agree with Barb that most of their fabric seems slightly lesser quality than what I get at the LQS, but the price is half of the LQS too!

hoprigmom

There is new Hobby Lobby close to me. I got some flannel there to make baby blankets for donation to church charity. I washed them before sewing the blankets. The flannel seemed to be the same weight and feel as the flannel that I paid $2.50 more a yard at LQS. In fact, one of the flannels I bought at the LQS seemed thinner. I looked at the bolts at Hobby Lobby and there were some names I recognized. I go by the hand--the feel and weight. You need to "pet" the fabric and hold it up to the light to see the actual weave.

Bree123

I've found that HL fabrics are slightly better than JAF. That said, they're definitely not the same quality as LQS fabric. I would always get excited when I would see nice brands like RK or RJR at a big box until I read somewhere that usually the designer fabrics that end up at the big box stores end up there because they were wound wrong or there was a small deviation in the dye lot or such. I have indeed found that the ones I've looked at/bought require as much as 4" cut off due to being wound wrong. I usually only lose 1-2" when I buy it at the LQS.

That said, I have no problem making charity quilts or small projects for family/friends out of their fabrics. They're not heirloom quality, so I would never buy them if I planned to put a lot of work into a quilt (needle turn applique, intricate quilting, sending out to LA) but they have their purpose.

Also, HL has their 40% off coupons available on their website, so if you ever forget to bring a coupon, you can download it right to your smart phone & they accept it.