Fabric From Marshall's Dry Goods?
 

Who can tell me about the quality of the fabric sold at Marshall Dry Good's retail store in Batesville, AR? I have an opportunity to go there soon, but it will be two hours drive from where I'm staying. Is it worth it? I have looked at their fabric on Ebay, and lots of it is selling for $1.50--2.00 a yard! Can the fabric be decent at those prices? Or is it really thin and flimsy? I would like some opinions please, from some of you who have bought it. Many thanks in advance!

It's a fun store. So much stock that it kind of makes your head swim when you walk through the doors. If you go, enjoy! I know I did! And brought home some good fabrics.

I just back a quilt with their $7.98 fabric, it is strong and sturdy and 108". A great buy!

The fabric is good quality. I stopped there but I will order from them. I think the quality is almost as good as the quilt shops.

Yes! Good store. Only been there one time. My daughter took me for my birthday. Good fabric, good prices. You will love it.

I have bought fabric from them and was very pleased at the quality. And of course, with their price. I will buy from them in the future!

I go there all the time. It's about an hour and a half from me. Marhall's has several warehouses. One is where the fabric is delivered and rolled onto bolts. The one open to the public is where the bolts are stored and by the yard is sold. Marshall's is a fabric distributor with sales reps. Quilt shops from all over buy there fabric there. Everything from novelty fabric sold at Walmart to Jenny Beyer, to Kaffe Fasset. I even found some older Liberty of London there. Marshall's has their own brand of fabric printed and it is quilt shop quality. It's all the way to the right when you walk in on the wall shelves. I love the bargain bins. You never know what will be in those. Every cheater cloth pattern you can imagine, and the printed patterns on fabric for tree skirts, aprons, etc. In the back they have a table where all the new fabric samples from the manufacturers are spread out. You can see what is coming to the warehouse. I make a day of shopping there, eating at Josie's Steakhouse on the water for lunch. It revives my creative soul!

I order their 108" backing fabric and very pleased with it.

Oh man... I'm really salivating now after reading these great recommendations! I really wondered about the quality. Thanks so much for letting me know it is good quality. I will be sure and go now! AND make a day of it... Wheeee....

Wish I lived closer! I might order from them online.

I wonder how they can sell fabric for so cheap? I wonder if its overstocks or just volume. I have never ordered from them nor been to the store. I am interested in ordering though.

They sell at the same price as other fabric distributors sell. If you buy the bolt you get the wholesale price. It's usually $2.98 yard if you buy the bolt. The buy the yard price is higher. I buy a lot of blender and solid color fabric by the bolt. You can ask to be on their wholesale email and you will get pictures and prices of all the new fabric sold by the bolt. There are two websites, retail and wholesale.

I wish i lived closer!

For anyone who knows...on the wholesale side of the site, when they have their flat fold collections, do you know how many yards are in each one? If there are 17 fabrics, how many yards are in each color? I saw that some of them say 16 prints, 6 yards each. Is that generally what they do?

For anyone who wants some really, really cheap fabric, they have some Hannah Montana fabric for .50/yard.

While I personally gag at the thought of her, if cut into 1.5" strips and the only thing left is the color and no discernable design. I thought it a great price and one of the pieces would make beautiful turquoise/pink (I think) strips to put into designs that need that size.

You couldn't see that the original was that pattern by cutting it that small. (I really wouldn't want to promote her, but fabric is fabric...:))

It does make one wonder, though, at what is the real bottom line cost of a yard of fabric.

All the flat folds packages at the warehouse are at least 5 yards of each fabric. The folds are open and sold separately too in the fabric by the yard side. If you have Ben Franklin or remember Alco having fabric, it was all from flat folds.

Are the flat folds the same quality as the bolts and by-the-yard fabric? What I'm remembering from Ben Franklin wasn't all that great.

I've never been there, but have a bit of their fabric. It is average+ quilt shop to high chain store quality, not the best, not the worst I've seen, just okay. If I were 2 hours away, I'd definitely go just for the experience of seeing what I could find.

I would say their fabric is priced so well because of 3 points:
1. They do not employ "name brand" fabric designers.
2. The prints for the most part aren't anything special, nice, but now WOW.
3. And it's probably a little bit that they price closer to what fabric really should cost.

I was in fabric retail in the 90's. FYI: quilt shops are paying more than $2.98 wholesale now, probably in the range of double that, so don't think they're the ones responsible for the exorbitant fabric prices.....

Their customer service is great also. I ordered 5 yards of fabric to be shipped to me in KY, got an email confirmation that that was where it was sent, and it ended up at our place in FL. I called and explained what happened and they sent the identical order to me in KY at no charge. I've ordered lots of fabric from them and have never had anything to complain about. Would love to see the store.

I ordered some 1.50 a yard clearance fabric from them a while back for charity quilts. Got 9 yards and wished I'd ordered more. It was nice fabric, washed well and I saw the same fabric elsewhere online for $8.99. I keep checking, but I haven't found any more bargains like that. Someone on the quilting board tipped me off to that sale.

I ordered 11 yard of various fabrics from them and am pleased with it. I especially like the 108 " backing @7.99 a yard.

Specials like that are in house too. And if you ask nice enough, sometimes the manager will make the fabric you fall in love with a manager's special.

I was there thursday and got over 700 yards of fabric. It seems to be nice quality. I would buy more.

Anything I have ordered on line had been good quality and so many colors and prices I can afford on SS.

I may have to check put mapquest and see how far and how long a road trip from Central Illinois...road trip maybe o a fun weekend?

n ithis is awesome. do you have any with frogs? I want to start a little collection.

Okay, now you've done it. I just ordered five yards of backing material.

I'm so easily influenced! ;)

I ordered from them only once. The fabric was very poor quality. I was very disappointed.

Thanks for the info. I keep going onto their website, looking at the blenders. Name brands and great selection. An order is probably in my future. Wish I could actually visit the store but Oregon is a long way away.

I love Marshall's. A group of my Project Linus ladies and myself head down there about 3 times a year. It is well worth the trip and you can buy wholesale. My favorite item they have are the $1 tables where various flawed fabrics are for $1 a yard. Some of the flaws are very noticeable, others are so small that it isn't found or pointed out till time to measure and cut yardage. I have been to very nice quilt shops and have found bolts marked 'Marshall Dry Goods' at the top. Of course the fabric usually runs $2.99-$3.99 a yard that has been marked up to $10.99. I like to buy their 60" wide cotton for backing. If there is a fabric heaven, this is as close as it gets. The reason they can sell so cheaply is they buy close-outs and end of run bolts. I have also purchased Warm and Natural batting -120" wide for $9.99 a yard, they sell rolls of batting well worth the money. After shopping, we then head to Josie's Steak House located on the White River. Great food and scenic view of the river.

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:eek: I wonder if I can move there? :eek:

It says a lot for them that there are over 3 pages of comments and most are positive. The prices are certainly attractive and I saw at least one fabric on their site that is identical to one I bought locally at Hancock's. Marshall's was $4.99/yd and Hancock's was on sale for around $7.00/yd when I bought it.
Marshall's is at the very least well worth checking out.
I'm still browsing their site.
Rodney

great several of my family have been buying from there for 20 years

I have ordered from them on line and have never been disappointed.

Glad you have room for 700 yards, enjoy them.

They are a wholesaler and sell to quilt shops as well. In their shop they have all kinds of stuff - bold ends, etc cheap
is it worth it? Yes. I love going there - I can afford their prices for charity quilts.

I goggled a particular fabric of an older line I needed and Marshall Dry Goods at it. I ordered on line before noon and had it within 2 days. They sent me an email they had received the order by 1 and shipping email by 3 the same day I ordered. The fabric was Party Ants cherries and was only 4.00 a yard.

I will order from them again in a heart beat.

I went to Marshalls a couple years ago & was over whelmed by their selection. I did purchase a bunch of blenders because I knew I could use them. The price was very reasonable, if I happened to be in their neck of the woods again I would definitely swing buy.

I love Marshalls and travel there at least twice a year. I buy my wonderful batting from them on a 30 yard roll. The flat fold fabrics are the lowest quality they carry. Instead, buy the fabrics on the bolts: It's all very high quality. They have tons of designer fabrics that you can buy retail or wholesale... both very cheap. I doubt if any where else in the country has prices as low as Marshalls. There's an awesome barbecue restaurant right up the hill from them: Fox Creek Barbecue.