Thanks for everyone's feedback regarding the prices. Another example of rolling with the punches, right?

thanks for starting this thread, I guess we all need to use fabrics that we have

The reason given is that prices for cotton in China are increasing due to shrinking inventories and adverse weather. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/busines...nt_9871175.htm
I asked my LQS owner about future price increases, and she said there are always rumors to that effect. I guess we have to wait and see.

If manufactors had left America we have better produts, more jobs and have money. I don't like the fact that everything is made somewhere else. I like MADE IN THE USA

Connecting Threads is made in the USA - and still cheap!!

To be more accurate, the cotton for their fabrics is grown in the USA, true, but it is then shipped out of the country and the fabric is woven and printed elsewhere in North America (got to assume Mexico)...not in the US.

Oh, no! I thought they printed it here, too! Now isn't that false advertising when they say made in USA??

Their cotton is grown in the US, but their manufacturers are international.

DH says it is do to petroleum. It is going up and it is used in the dying of the fabric or stamping.

Their site doesn't even claim North America anymore - it just says "international manufacturers."