How much does fabric cost in your country?
01-30-2010, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
After reading another post about the cost of fabric in Canada ($15 - $18 / meter), I thought it might be interesting to ask what the price is in other countries.
Please chime in and tell us!
Please chime in and tell us!
01-30-2010, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by fraserblack
Fabric in Australia is $27 per metre. That's why I buy ALL my fabric online from the US. Even with the US$14.00 postage for 6 yards, it is SOOOOOOO much cheaper ... and I have never been disappointed with my choice.
01-30-2010, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Lockeb
Mamagus,
Our Walmarts here in Quebec have all but stopped carrying...almost nothing out - I went to Fabricville here on Sunday - FQ's are $4.99....there was a selection of fabrics at $10.00 - but not must you would want to bring home...the better cottons were all $15-18.00....the local quilt stores are all within that price and higher....
Our Walmarts here in Quebec have all but stopped carrying...almost nothing out - I went to Fabricville here on Sunday - FQ's are $4.99....there was a selection of fabrics at $10.00 - but not must you would want to bring home...the better cottons were all $15-18.00....the local quilt stores are all within that price and higher....
I've never tried to buy fabric in a Canadian Walmart, so I don't know what their prices are/were like. Our big chain fabric store is Fabricville (in Quebec) / Fabricland (in other parts of Canada), and they usually have a good selection of quilting fabric. Their prices can be high - $14 to $18/meter is what I usually see for good quality quilting fabric at Fabricville. I usually wait for their half-price sales, which they have quite often. I also like to go through their big remnants section, and I have sometimes found real gems for $5/meter. You need time and patience and strong arms, though, because all the bolts are just piled together!
My LQS, and all the LQS within an hour's drive of me, charge at least $15/meter.
$15 CAD is currently $14 US - but the exchange rate moves so much these days it's hard to keep up!
I buy a lot of my fabric online from places like Thousands of Bolts that ship in the US flat-rate envelopes, that way I know exactly what I'm paying for shipping and can fill an envelope with $5/yard fabric, and save a little money.
Jan
01-30-2010, 08:11 PM
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I save even the smallest scraps because I like to do mini's and usually only make those mini's from those scraps. I figure even here in the US at $9 a yard an inch wide strip of fabric cut wof is $.25 and Canadian prices at $14 and $18 a meter make that same inch $.36 and $.46, respectively. I ask you would you throw a quarter or more in the waste basket at those prices? I really have trouble with patterns that create alot of waste fabric for that reason.
01-30-2010, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by ai731
Originally Posted by Lockeb
Mamagus,
Our Walmarts here in Quebec have all but stopped carrying...almost nothing out - I went to Fabricville here on Sunday - FQ's are $4.99....there was a selection of fabrics at $10.00 - but not must you would want to bring home...the better cottons were all $15-18.00....the local quilt stores are all within that price and higher....
Our Walmarts here in Quebec have all but stopped carrying...almost nothing out - I went to Fabricville here on Sunday - FQ's are $4.99....there was a selection of fabrics at $10.00 - but not must you would want to bring home...the better cottons were all $15-18.00....the local quilt stores are all within that price and higher....
wow that is so high !!! we get Fq for a dollar ...
I've never tried to buy fabric in a Canadian Walmart, so I don't know what their prices are/were like. Our big chain fabric store is Fabricville (in Quebec) / Fabricland (in other parts of Canada), and they usually have a good selection of quilting fabric. Their prices can be high - $14 to $18/meter is what I usually see for good quality quilting fabric at Fabricville. I usually wait for their half-price sales, which they have quite often. I also like to go through their big remnants section, and I have sometimes found real gems for $5/meter. You need time and patience and strong arms, though, because all the bolts are just piled together!
My LQS, and all the LQS within an hour's drive of me, charge at least $15/meter.
$15 CAD is currently $14 US - but the exchange rate moves so much these days it's hard to keep up!
I buy a lot of my fabric online from places like Thousands of Bolts that ship in the US flat-rate envelopes, that way I know exactly what I'm paying for shipping and can fill an envelope with $5/yard fabric, and save a little money.
Jan
02-01-2010, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Rina
Here in South Africa material cost about $17.17 per meter. But we have very few shops. I buy mostly via internet from USA or Australia, but I find USA a bit cheaper.
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02-01-2010, 12:37 PM
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