I have bought a few yards at full price - usually for a swap and the fabric is a perfect fit. However, I will spend hours on line trying to find the cheapest price for a fabric that I can. I have seen the same fabric (such as fairy frost) differ in price over $5.00 a yard for the same color. I know it is the same quality fabric, so I don't get the price difference. There are on-line stores that I don't bother even shopping at because I know they are going to be too pricey. When I find a good deal, I bookmark the site and the next time I need fabric, I start there first.

Jo-Anns has gotten too expensive... unless their fabric is on a good sale. I am a teacher, so I get a 15% discount, which helps.

I refuse to buy fabric at Wal-Mart when the prices are over $6.00 a yard and the fabric feels like crap. I would make my daughter doll clothes and simple dresses with their fabric when it was more reasonable, but at the prices much of their fabric is at now, it is cheaper to buy ready-made dresses and doll clothes. Sewing is not a money-saver anymore!

Not shocking---- I have been reading about this since last September. We all just try to do the best we can.

Because of a crop failure in both major places, yes.

I am so glad I love scrap quilts and like to recycle. If you can wash a mans shirt week after week and it still looks good, that is good quilting fabric so far as I am concerned.

Ditto Southern Highlands:$21-$26 or $34-$75 inthe fancy shop...

Prices are up EVERYWHERE! How about the grocery store?! And I've been wearing the same old clothes for an eternity. The economy is killing us.........we just have to learn to be more resourceful. The more I look at my older fabrics in my stash, the prettier they become.

And yes, you quilters who are in Australia and other places that have very high prices, I sympathize with you, but we're coming right along behind you. It won't be too long before we will see the same prices.

Shortage of cotton. :-(

Yup...all fabric has increased...due to price of gas/oil...higher that goes higher everything goes...Have you gone to the food market...Milk, butter, bread and some other items better have a 50. And the Gov tells us there's no real increase in Cost of Living....RIGHT

I was just on vacation in Seattle and went to the Undercover Quilt Shop in the Pike's market area in downtown Seattle. Prices for most things in that area are quite a bit higher than I'm used to in Wisconsin. But not the quilt shop! Every beautiful fabric I pulled out to look at was $10/yd. There may have been some higher priced ones but I didn't see them. That is really a great shop! A little hard to find but my girlfriends helped me find it and I'm glad they did!

where have you been? This has been a major discussion on this board for a long time. Do a search and you will see the posts. It just seems that this has taken a long time to filter down in to the stores. We were all warned!