I've seen fabric at the $12 range for awhile in the shops where I've shopped. With cotton prices having risen so dramatically in the last year or so, it's unfortunate that we're having to pay these prices. Since I retired & now can't get to a couple of the shops I used to shop at, I'm having to shop online more & paying even more attention to price. $15 per yard is getting pretty steep, no matter if you can afford it or not.

You could always say something like, "Yikes! That's expensive." and see where the dialogue goes. Or just let her see what happens. Personally I wouldn't have even paid $8-9 a yard, but that's me. I have a hard and fast rule - no more than $4 a yard for anything.

I can afford the $15, but I wouldn't do it.. I'm sure the fabric is georgous, but I don't think there is a need to spend that much.. I'm not saying to go cheap, but there are online stores that sell, and are more reaaonable.. I don't think she will continue in business... You might want to say something to her, but sometimes people have to see for themselves..

Not me, I'll continue to shop sales, clearance, and my own stash. I do shop at my LQS, but mostly for just what I need, or the end of bolt table.

Everything in the world has gone up. And, so has fabric. I am a non-smoker, and wonder about the logic of paying $50 a carton for cigarettes. At least there is something left of the fabric.

$15 per yard? Absolutely not! I can sit in my chair and find wonderful deals on great fabrics by shopping online. If I check out the sales/clearance on ConnectingThreads I can find fabric at $3/yd. and never leave the house. If you want to run a store and make money, you have to be realistic about your pricing.

Everything is going up. Our Cable bill just went up 20%, groceries aren't just creeping up. If I am going to spend time making a quilt, I will pay whatever. I am a business owner and thanks to our government it is harder and harder to stay in business.

I hate to say this, but this has been an on going problem from the begging of time. What you are seeing is the difference between SMALL local stores and LARGE MEGA corp owned stores. Your LQS buys 1 bolt of this 1 bolt of that, some times 2 bolts of some things. But the Corp stores buy truck loads of the same things. When you buy in mass you get the best price. The price of fabric goes up and you LQS still has the same bills (rent, elect., etc...), so she still has to mark up by the same amt in order to pay her bills. So at the LQS it looks like her prices are out of line, but she hasn't changed any thing other than what has changed on her. It's SAD, because the little guy is being priced out of the market. Most quilters can not pay $15 a yard for fabric and give it away, so we have to look at other ways to save and we end up at the Corp. Mega stores. Around and around we go.

My quilt groups makes more and more trips to the Amish. We recently stopped at a quilt shop on our way home from the Amish and between 10 of us we didnt spen $20.00. Prices are just getting to high.

There is something wrong with our fabric prices. You can't make clothes cheaper than buying them. Don't save hardly anything buy making your own curtain and such. Where do they get fabric cheaper and then send it over seas to be make and shipped back to sell to us. Let alone buy material for quilting. Supposedly quilting fabric isn't the same grade of fabric and garments.