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I just read about the cost of cotton going up and what the manufacturers are planning to do to compensate. First, the wholesale price has almost doubled. They don't say why. They are talking about making the fabric thinner. That has been mentioned on the board by several of you. Next, they are thinking about adding polyester to cotton in a 60/40 combo.
I can't imagine quilt material with poly. You can't use it for any donated children's quilts because of the fire hazard. We need to keep an eye on this topic. |
Time to rebuild that stash I so brutely dispersed last weekend!!!
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Yea Maybe I'll hang on to my stuff a little longer ;)
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I emember when poly was all the rage back in the 70's. It was very hard to even find all cotton fabrics either in fabric or ready made.
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Ugh. I love the cotton....
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very sad for us!
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Me for the thrift stores and looking for all the cotton sheets I can get my hands on. Thankfully they all have labels that tell the fibers, so will keep on getting what I can of them.
Some of the finest feeling ones can be a thick, fine cotton OR a cotton/poly blend, at first glance they look identical. Have to be careful about this. But I'll admit that I, myself use a pretty cotton/poly blend quilt on my own bed. I don't smoke nor do my cats, so that hazard is not bothering me. |
I figure that they will either made it less in width------like 36 instead of 45.
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They already have been decreasing the width by an inch or two the past couple of years... have you noticed?
As to the original question of mixing poly in with the cotton... I don't think this would fly at all with the quilting market. Mar32428, could you have been reading an article about the cloth market in general? If so, that would make sense that fabric manufacturers would blend some poly in with the cotton, for the apparel market (T-shirts, underwear, sleepwear etc). (Remember that quilting fabric is just a tiny segment of the fabric industry overall.) |
This topic has been brought up numerous time on here. Many with letters from manufacturers explaining what is going on in the cotton industry to effect the price of quilting cotton. Use the search box to see what many members have found out on this topic for us.
I don't believe for a minute that they will start blending poly with cotton for their quilting customers...most quilters wouldn't stand for it. |
I think we will continue to see fabrics made with less thread count and see bolts narrowed. It has been going this way with so many products ....it is a paY more, get less, country we are living in.
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I would buy what you want or need now I was told in 6 months the price will be HIGH
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I would love to know when these prices are going to go up. I keep seeing (and buying) great fabrics online anywhere from 3.95- 8.00 a yard.
I believe what everyone says but just haven't noticed dramatic increases. |
I receive a month subscription of fat quarters from Fons & Porter.. Its one of those stash builder of the month deals.. I gotta tell ya the fabric is not impressive.. Its kinda thin, very similar to Joannes low/med fabric.. Its free for me otherwise if I had to pay for it I'd cancel any future orders..
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Originally Posted by mar32428
I just read about the cost of cotton going up and what the manufacturers are planning to do to compensate. First, the wholesale price has almost doubled. They don't say why. They are talking about making the fabric thinner. That has been mentioned on the board by several of you. Next, they are thinking about adding polyester to cotton in a 60/40 combo.
I can't imagine quilt material with poly. You can't use it for any donated children's quilts because of the fire hazard. We need to keep an eye on this topic. Can I ask were you read this info? |
Originally Posted by sueisallaboutquilts
I would love to know when these prices are going to go up. I keep seeing (and buying) great fabrics online anywhere from 3.95- 8.00 a yard.
I believe what everyone says but just haven't noticed dramatic increases. |
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
Originally Posted by mar32428
I just read about the cost of cotton going up and what the manufacturers are planning to do to compensate. First, the wholesale price has almost doubled. They don't say why. They are talking about making the fabric thinner. That has been mentioned on the board by several of you. Next, they are thinking about adding polyester to cotton in a 60/40 combo.
I can't imagine quilt material with poly. You can't use it for any donated children's quilts because of the fire hazard. We need to keep an eye on this topic. all old news..been coming on for about a year now..but the poly cotton is interesting..too many laws now for that to hit the market big time Can I ask were you read this info? |
Originally Posted by mar32428
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
Originally Posted by mar32428
I just read about the cost of cotton going up and what the manufacturers are planning to do to compensate. First, the wholesale price has almost doubled. They don't say why. They are talking about making the fabric thinner. That has been mentioned on the board by several of you. Next, they are thinking about adding polyester to cotton in a 60/40 combo.
I can't imagine quilt material with poly. You can't use it for any donated children's quilts because of the fire hazard. We need to keep an eye on this topic. all old news..been coming on for about a year now..but the poly cotton is interesting..too many laws now for that to hit the market big time Can I ask were you read this info? |
We have read before that the cost of cotton has raised because the floods in Pakistan ruined most of the crop and that is where we get most of it. And we thought that it comes from the south----wrong. The growers are paid to let it rot in the fields to keep the prices up----yep that is how our government works! We sure could use that money for better things! Think of how much more they would sale if the price was kept down. Wonder if that is worth letting your congressman know about?
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Originally Posted by mommafank
We have read before that the cost of cotton has raised because the floods in Pakistan ruined most of the crop and that is where we get most of it. And we thought that it comes from the south----wrong. The growers are paid to let it rot in the fields to keep the prices up----yep that is how our government works! We sure could use that money for better things! Think of how much more they would sale if the price was kept down. Wonder if that is worth letting your congressman know about?
In the MS Delta they still grow cotton. And Texas is the #1 cotton producing state in the country. This year TX produced the most cotton in the world! HOWEVER, that cotton is grown for medical and home building supplies that are still made in this country. The cotton for clothing/textiles, is grown in Asia now because all of the textile mills are now in Asia. We make NO textiles in this country any more. |
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
Originally Posted by mommafank
We have read before that the cost of cotton has raised because the floods in Pakistan ruined most of the crop and that is where we get most of it. And we thought that it comes from the south----wrong. The growers are paid to let it rot in the fields to keep the prices up----yep that is how our government works! We sure could use that money for better things! Think of how much more they would sale if the price was kept down. Wonder if that is worth letting your congressman know about?
In the MS Delta they still grow cotton. And Texas is the #1 cotton producing state in the country. This year TX produced the most cotton in the world! HOWEVER, that cotton is grown for medical and home building supplies that are still made in this country. The cotton for clothing/textiles, is grown in Asia now because all of the textile mills are now in Asia. We make NO textiles in this country any more. |
Originally Posted by mommafank
Originally Posted by jaciqltznok
Originally Posted by mommafank
We have read before that the cost of cotton has raised because the floods in Pakistan ruined most of the crop and that is where we get most of it. And we thought that it comes from the south----wrong. The growers are paid to let it rot in the fields to keep the prices up----yep that is how our government works! We sure could use that money for better things! Think of how much more they would sale if the price was kept down. Wonder if that is worth letting your congressman know about?
In the MS Delta they still grow cotton. And Texas is the #1 cotton producing state in the country. This year TX produced the most cotton in the world! HOWEVER, that cotton is grown for medical and home building supplies that are still made in this country. The cotton for clothing/textiles, is grown in Asia now because all of the textile mills are now in Asia. We make NO textiles in this country any more. In other parts of the country it is the same..with different crops..but our Govt also pays for people to sit at home on their rears, so what is the difference? |
This affects not only fabric, but batting and thread. I stocked up in December and January on batting and thread so that my quilting customers shouldn't see increases this year. I hope...
I just received notice from SewBatik.com that they are having to increase their prices. Every business in this industry that I know is trying to hold the line on costs without affecting quality. We also can not expect them to absorb the costs forever. |
Originally Posted by Shelley
This affects not only fabric, but batting and thread. I stocked up in December and January on batting and thread so that my quilting customers shouldn't see increases this year. I hope...
I just received notice from SewBatik.com that they are having to increase their prices. Every business in this industry that I know is trying to hold the line on costs without affecting quality. We also can not expect them to absorb the costs forever. The cost of everything is going up, even your utilities to run that machine..an extra $.50 per yard for batting is not going to make or break the customer. It will however determine how well YOU stay in business next year! |
Well I wanted to down size my fabric stash but guess I will be going shopping for cotton fabric before the blends hit the market.
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If you want to see the price of cotton fabric go down----everyone stop buying! Everytime gas goes up and people cut down on useage, the price starts to go down. It looks like the price of everything is going up-----everything but paychecks that is!
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Originally Posted by mar32428
I just read about the cost of cotton going up and what the manufacturers are planning to do to compensate. First, the wholesale price has almost doubled. They don't say why. They are talking about making the fabric thinner. That has been mentioned on the board by several of you. Next, they are thinking about adding polyester to cotton in a 60/40 combo.
I can't imagine quilt material with poly. You can't use it for any donated children's quilts because of the fire hazard. We need to keep an eye on this topic. hhtp:/www.howtoquilt.com/articles/1060-price-of-cottonphp |
Originally Posted by mar32428
Originally Posted by mar32428
I just read about the cost of cotton going up and what the manufacturers are planning to do to compensate. First, the wholesale price has almost doubled. They don't say why. They are talking about making the fabric thinner. That has been mentioned on the board by several of you. Next, they are thinking about adding polyester to cotton in a 60/40 combo.
I can't imagine quilt material with poly. You can't use it for any donated children's quilts because of the fire hazard. We need to keep an eye on this topic. hhtp:/www.howtoquilt.com/articles/1060-price-of-cottonphp OK, so I found how-to-quilt, but none of her site links to the articles is working right now. I reworded your link and found that page no longer exists...I even signed up the newsletter thinking that might help, but NO... would be nice to know if what she wrote was true or if she upset the apple cart and somebody had her pull the article! Did you happen to save the article as a file on your computer? Did you print it out? The articles section has been removed from that website! |
I heard back from Penny Halgren and here is the link the article. Does not really say too much..nothing we did not already know.
http://www.how-to-quilt.com/articles...-of-cotton.php |
I was talking to one of the gals that works at Joann's last week about the cost of fabric going up because of the rising cotton prices. She told me that BATTING prices will be rising too in the next few weeks. I've also noticed at Joann's that a lot of their fabrics are on sale every week like $1-2 off per yard, 30% off, etc so you can't use one of their coupons on it. Hobby Lobby has done this for quite awhile. Usually everything in their fabric department is 30% off each week except seasonal.
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Originally Posted by auntpiggylpn
I was talking to one of the gals last week at Joann's about the cost of fabric going up because of the rising cotton prices. She told me that BATTING prices will be rising too in the next few weeks.
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I've noticed the discontinuation of several battings lately... never put it together, duh!
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Originally Posted by auntpiggylpn
I've noticed the discontinuation of several battings lately... never put it together, duh!
bagged batts are hard to find as well..they must think we all have long arms and want nothing but rolls... |
Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
They already have been decreasing the width by an inch or two the past couple of years... have you noticed?
As to the original question of mixing poly in with the cotton... I don't think this would fly at all with the quilting market. Mar32428, could you have been reading an article about the cloth market in general? If so, that would make sense that fabric manufacturers would blend some poly in with the cotton, for the apparel market (T-shirts, underwear, sleepwear etc). (Remember that quilting fabric is just a tiny segment of the fabric industry overall.) |
I was seriously thinking about getting rid of some of my stash figuring that at my age, I'll never use it all. Think I'll keep it. Since I'm on a fixed income like many of you, I have not been buying fabric lately. I feel like we're back in the old pioneer days. Using every scrap and restyling what you have. Should see some very unusual quilts coming the next five years.
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