I would love for the quilting/fabric stores to start using those again. How many of you have had to stand and wait because they lost count and have to start again? I love my local (45min away) LQS, when they cut their half yards are 19" and their full yards are 38 inches. It is always so great when the owner is a quilter so they know what to do and do it right.

I know it is the wrong thing to do, but I can't stand to watch some of them cut my fabric. I turn around and try to ignore them to a point. I watch long enough to see them count the yardage. I have actually bought fabric and by the time it is washed and evened out, the piece is too small for the intended project. I live 40 miles from town, so I can't just run back to the store for more. It really is frustrating.

K mart had them years ago (yes, KMart had a fabric department)
Woolworth's had them too (yes, Woolworth's had a fabric department)

When stores got rid if their fabric departments, it was like 20 cents a yard

My aunt had one of those in the fabric dept. of the general merchandise store the family owned. I wish I had picked it up before they tore the old store down in the late sixties.

I have one of these if you would like to buy it but it is real heavy postage might be a lot.
Linda

Thanks, that's very nice of you, but it's a sentimental thing -- I would have wanted hers.

I bought fabric at Fant's in Guntersville,AL this past Saturday, and they used one.

Oh, that takes me back to when I was a little girl. Every Wednesday my grandma and I would go to town for groceries, and we'd stop by the mall and go to Penney's fabric dept. I loved watching the woman pull that fabric through the machine. I can remember exactly how it sounded. Years later the mall closed, and they turned it into an elementary school that I taught at for awhile.

Joann's has that thing. God bless.

I know about the distance problem. I live about 50 miles from Ipswich and my favourite fabric shop, so I have to make sure I have enough so I buy at least a a metre more especially if it is on special.