I agree that Connecting Threads is still a good deal at 5.96/yd and great kit prices. I guess I can tell my hubby so he will appreciate my stash now. I can probably sew for the next 4 years and not buy fabric if it indeed goes up. Then I would have to protest,me thinks.lol

does anyone really care what year the fabric is from? from what i've read here, the older, the better. and members are always looking for additional yards to fill in for something they bought 2 or 3 years ago and didn't buy enough. if anyone refuses to quilt on anything but the current year's lines, i sure don't know her/him.
that fabric can be made available instead of introducing new lines and immediately making last year's line obsolete. it's like the appliance industry. built to self-destruct in 3 - 5 years instead of lasting 10 years. same with fabric. can't get the same stuff for more than 1 year because they deliberately underprint, forcing you to buy fresh lines or scramble around in clearance houses. that's why LQS are hurting and online stores are flourishing. i may as well save money and i have a better chance of matching last year's fabrics online.

it all come home to the same thing: they are greedy.

Like someone else said, I either like the fabric, or I don't. Doesn't make a difference to me when it was manufactured. What matters is the quality of the fabric more than anything else.

I had a quilt top (8 point star) that my great grandmother made. She died in 1939, so you know the fabrics all predated that timeframe. She made the top for my Dad but he never had anyone to quilt it, because he was afraid to let it out of his hands. After he passed away, I had it hand quilted in both of their memories. At first I was worried about whether the fabric was still in good shape to bother with it. It was in great shape, so I guess she used good quality fabrics. I guess to whole point of all this is, quality not age.

From what I have read, it is going up because we are raising the tariffs quite a bit on imports. So this will affect everyone. She said that even those who sell for less will have to raise their prices, to cover the cost of their purchases. This will affect all cotton fabric, no matter where you get it. I have already seen some increases on line and I was in Joanns a couple of weeks ago and they had $12.99 on some of their batiks. That's $4 more a yard than my lqs charges. She has done everything she can to keep her prices down, but when she has to pay more, so do we. She still has all of her fabrics at $8.99 a yard. I sure hope that this doesn't push her out of business. 1)it is bad for the economy of out town because she has been in a stable business for 20 years and 2) she is the only game in town. But that is not the only thing going up. I went grocery shopping today, bought the same stuff I buy every month and almost went into cardiac arrest when I say the total. Granted, out youngest son has moved back home, but that shouldm't have raised my grocery bill $250. for the month. I'm just afraid all of this is going to come tumbling down and when it does it will land on us average Joe's again.

Well, it just may be more taxes stacked onto the already overtaxed manufacturers. Did you think of that? If they say "thanks Washington", then that's probably what it is. With all the spending going on in Washington, that's a pretty sure bet.....more taxes!!!! Then EVERYTHING we buy will be more expensive. Including food, clothing, everything. So....

That is really terrible. Everything is so high priced nowadays, especially the necessities. All we need is for the 'extras' to go up too. Like we can afford alot of them anyways.

If you boycott the LQS's - who are mostly small businesses struggling to survive - they will close and then there will be none left! You will have no option but big chain stores-which here basically have garbage and no service!

In Australia we pay up to $24-26 a metre - even the chain stores are now $18 -$20 a metre!

I with you Butterflywing. We need to put the blame where it belongs on the greedy fabric mfg. You go girl, I'm with you 100%.

It seems like we blame Washington for everything, even when the toilet don't flush.

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LOLOL not me, I blame Ottawa :mrgreen:

I don't care how old the fabric is or where it comes from as long as its good and I like. I buy fabric at yard sales all the time too and sometimes find some really good stuff!

I'm reading a library book about quilting during the depression....how they used what they had, and feed sacks. Wouldnt it be great if they still had feedsacks, LOL! Of course, we dont buy 50 lb bags of flour anymore....
I keep thinking I'd like to find a part time job in a quilt shop around here to get the disount, but No one is hiring, LOL!