I totally agree with you about the 1/2 yard pricing, has always annoyed me and made me wonder why on earth they feel it is necessary to use these types of tricks to sell. I like JC Penney's new approach to selling.... $15.00 not $14.99.

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Depending on what you're looking for, Nancy's Notions has a lot of hard to find notions.

My favorite is "The Quilted B. (www.thequiltedb.com). They have beautiful fabrics, good prices with good sales and beautiful packaging. Just ordered today and always look forward to getting my fabric, always looks perfect, pressed and folded......can't be beat.

connectingthreads.com when looking for pirate stuff, do you just put in Pirate fabric? I find that works better than browsing the different sites. You will get lots of sites that have what you want. I had to do that with sea turtles..smile

guessing Reno is closest Quilt Shops...............I have had good experience with keepsake quilting and you can call and speak to an actual person................ www.keepsakequilting.com 1-800-865-9458
looked through the current catalouge and did not see pirates

I have bought from hawthorn threads several times and been very happy. Also the rented mule I have found to be very good too.

I've had great service and quality from Ericas & Connecting threads.

Connecting Threads and 1,000 Bolts in a dead tie

I do usually do that and it almost always works, but with the pirate fabric I was able to find only a few things (and I even searched Google Shopping and Google Images). I think the problem is that the pirate thing was kind of a fad that peaked about a year ago, and a lot of the manufacturers that were making pirate fabric have discontinued it, so that now you can only find it in the smaller shops and a lot of them tend to not be very well indexed by the search engines.

Someone here just led me to bugfabric.com, though, and they have LOADS of pirate stuff. I could make three or four quilts out of what they have to offer and they'd all be really unique. So it's great to have a list of those smaller sites just in case the search engines aren't taking me to where I need to go!

I like Hancocks of Paducah because I LOVE getting the "real" catalog. But they never have sales. Connecting Threads is probably my favorite. I also like Bear's Paw. In fact, they're having a sale now. And Fabric.com has a daily special that I like better than Missouri Quilt (you can only buy 1 daily special a day at MO Q which isn't fun).

Also, if you have something specific in mind, I go to the quilt shop search engine --->

http://www.quiltshops.com/search.htm

I have several I order from frequently. I tend to watch for sales and clearance mostly.

www.thespiderswebfabricshop.com
www.QuiltFabricCloseouts.com
www.whittlesfabrics.com
www.stitchnframe.com
www.crafttown.com
www.ericas.com
www.quiltsrjewels.com

I love The Quilting Hen the service is outstanding and the fabric is beautiful

My favorite online shop is closing, BUT Sue has some fantastic sales in the process. All is wonderful quality and prices -
http://www.sewezdesigns.com

Oh I DO know where Rough and Ready is located - I am not too far from you.

My favorite is eQuilter.com. If you sign up for the free newsletter, it comes twice a week. There is a clearance button and you can check for sales. Periodically, there are special markdowns mentioned in the newsletter. The fabric quality is EXCELLENT.

I purchase from a number of wonderful ebay sellers - you have to know who you are buying from. Actually one of my favorite sellers is one I read about here. Most are quilters who are anxious to please.

Check out



somewheresewing a shop in Ohio that has top of the line fabric at good prices.. Also good sales from time to time... check it out

My go to shops are: Connecting Threads, Honeyforkfabrics.com and Big Horn Quilts. Honey Fork Fabrics has 25 fat quarter bundles for $30 and you can tell them what FQ you want such as colorway or 1930's, Civil War, Floral, Novelty, etc.

Here is another one for your list. www.quiltfabriccloseouts.com

Connecting threads by far...

I have ordered from Fat Quarter shop, Quilt Home, equilter.com, Cabbage Rose, fabric.com

My favs are The Fabric Shack, Honey Fork Fabrics, Thousands of Bolts and Quilt Fabric Closeouts. No complaints about any of them!

Hi! Yes, Rough and Ready is in Nevada County near Grass Valley. We have a few fabric shops here; Sugar Pine Quilt Shop, Fabrics on Mill and Ben Franklin. All good shops for stash building but not huge selections and sadly lacking in pirate fabric. :-)

Where are you located?

Try Fabric Depot in Portland, Oregon. They are super and always fast and efficient. Never had a bad fabric or notion from them.
Judy

I have liked Sew Spider. Her Website is:The Spiders Web Fabric Quilt shop.
She has good prices, and if she doesn't have what you are looking for, she will do her best to find it.
She has sales at noon on Saturday. She is on Easter St. Time, so you have to go by that!
Mariah.

My favorite online shops are:

http://www.azquilts.com/
http://www.greenfairyquilts.com/
http://www.fatquartershop.com/

All have good service and quick delivery on fabric. Enjoy.

I use fabric. com alot. I have tried connecting threads. Both have pretty reasonable prices and quick delivery.
I have come across a place called http://aaaquilterssupply.com/ AAA quilters has really nice fabric and prices are good. I buy my 108" backs from them. They have a few that are wider then that. They too are very reasonable and top notch customer service. If the postage she charges is cheaper she will send a refund

I am so glad you asked this question. I only knew of 4companies. Keepsake Quilting, Nancy Notions, Quilt in a Day and Connecting Threads. I will be trying some of the other companies now. Thanks everyone.

The Quilting Bee in Yuma Az. is another good one. Here is her web site. [email protected]

My order from http://www.jellyrollfabric.net/ today. It was my first order & wow! I was really pleased! I ordered 2 jelly rolls (RWB) & they sent me a free one, too (black & brown prints... really pretty)! It came in a timely manner & all-in-all, I was pleased. They don't sell yardage but they have precuts at comparable prices.

What a neat thread this is. I see places I have never heard of. I have had very good luck with Keepsake Quilting and Connecting Threads. I have bought from E-quilter a couple times and they give excellent service, too. It is worth signing up for their newsletter, even if you don't buy. It is filled such interesting stories. They also donate a portion of sales to charities you can choose from. All of these on-line plaes are great when those of us who quilt, live not within driving distance of local quilt shops.

Love all the suggestions everyone has. I'm trying not to buy fabric for a while until I get some of my "in progress" projects done but ran out of fabric I needed to finish a quilt for one of my grandsons. I just got the fabric I ordered online from JoAnn Fabric. I won't be ordering online from there again. I had bought some fabric there about year ago and I don't know where my head was at the time, but I didn't order enough of one of the fabrics. I had to have more so I could finish the quilt and found it was available online. I have never seen so many flaws in a fabric before. I bought two yards and quit counting at 25 flaws. Since I was in such a hurry to finish, I used the fabric and am hoping when it's quilted the flaws won't show. Most of them are small, so hopefully they won't stick out.

I absolutely love Connecting Threads-had a problem with a jelly roll and they replaced it even tho I only needed a few strips that had been wonky replaced. Also like Green Fairy and Charm Packs plus.

Thank you again everyone. I bookmarked every single one of the shops mentioned and I now have 58 online shops to choose from! I doubt I'll ever have trouble finding fabric again. :-)

Try quiltshops.com. Put pirates in the search and see what you get.

I frequently purchase from Keepsake -- always quick and efficient.
I do like the fact that they carry quite a variety of colors and styles of fabrics, not just, calico's or lights or...
One shop I used to go to had no light brights, only darker or greyed fabric.

Hancock's of Paducah, The Fabric Shack

I"ve ordered from clotilde, keepsake and creativequiltkits.com. All were good fabric and quick shipping.

Keepsake Quilting and Connecting Threads are the only ones I've used.