Saw a post on here within the last week and went to my local Wal Mart to check it out. I have to say I was very impressed with the selection and the quality of the fabric. Fat quarters are only $1.00 and the rest of the cuts are quite reasonable. Lots of kids prints and bright colors---great for those donation quilts. I bought 2 red and 1 purple fat quarter and washed them and you cannot tell the difference from the LQS fabrics. They have also brought back thread, and have some kits. Looks like Wal Mart listened to all of us quilters, maybe not totally the way we would like, but they are trying to keep us somewhat happy. Go check it out.

Thanks for letting us know!

I looked at some of the FQ's at one of our local Wal-Mart's and the fabric was soooooooo thin. It was marked $1. I passed on it. I'm glad your quality is better than ours.

I haven't been in ours in ages. Maybe I need to check it out again.

I hope my local Wal-Mart gets them. Right now the closest LQS or Joann's is 20 miles away.

Although my pocketbook appreciates the extra mileage as I wouldn't be there so often.

i will agree that shoppers should try their best to feel each and every fat quarter that interests them in the walmart precut sections. most are quite nice for the price. some are quite not. overall, though, i'd say they are worth a look. :-)

yesterday i received my latest order of [what i like to call] snooty fabs. shop stuff.

something strange is going on. most of it is the same weight and feel as much of the newest stuff showing up in the walmarts with fabric on bolts and/or precuts.

seriously ... and i know i've mentioned this before ... you absolutely cannot tell the difference between my most recent wally purchase and several of the shop fabs in my stash. cross my heart, and confirmed by a friend.

interesting. very interesting.

Oh, I havent seen them yet...hope we get them. I wonder if its because we still have the old style fabric dept....which I love!

I bought a 2 1/2 jelly inch roll. When I opened it looked like some of the color have ran and in the middle the strips were 1 inch. I took it back. I have looked at the FQ, but my encounter with the jelly has made me think twice. I always past it up.

I keep hearing it haven't seen it here! No thread no fabric nothing to make me shop there anymore!

Our WalMart has some great fabric on the bolts, but the FQ's, jelly rolls and other pre-cuts leave a whole lot to be desired, thin, flimsy and color assortments that are "out there."

I have found that the WM fabric varies in quality. Just be careful before you buy - I bought some fat quarters to make totes - very nice quality - a 170 piece charm pack - nice quality - some of the others not so nice

My local WM just 8 miles away carries nothing, but the super WM 22 miles away has lots of prepackaged material and thread! Not bad, I was very surprised. guess it is better than nothing, but I shop at Hancocks or my favorite fabric store.

Neither of the 2 nearby WM have any fabric yet...will check back every couple of months tho...

I bought a few Jelly rolls at WM for $9.00. Found the EXACT JR at Joanne's for $24.99 ! Even with a Joanne's coupon, WM was cheaper. Some strips are thin but workable.

I agree with Farmer Girl. The pre-cut fabric I saw/felt was 'rough' - just felt cheap. They have cheap fabric that has a nice hand to it, too. But the precuts - well, I left them there.

I've discovered that different Wal-Marts, even within a somewhat close area can have widely different selection and quality of fabric. Apparently the fabric departments do have some leeway in adding to the selection they get automatically based on their location, but very little input regarding what they get sent to them. I know at ours they got asked 'what do you need more of'... But at the one in Waxahachie they had both the precuts in the set display and on another shelf across the cutting table from the display was a smaller display with what looked like photocoopied labels on groups of fat quarters that were LQS quality tied with curling ribbon and at a really good price. Our Wal-Mart ended up putting the original batch of jelly rolls on clearance because nobody wanted to pay that much for them, and didn't seem to care for the selection available anyway. I did get some of the batiks in the clearance ones. Ours now has the display and I don't know how well it is selling as I don't go there as often anymore. Didn't really see anything that 'spoke my name" in the display.

I am amazed at how varied fabric is from manufacturer to manufacturer. I used to LOVE Hancocks blenders, but they don't carry them anymore. I recently ordered from J and O Fabrics and was extremely disappointed with my blenders. They had cut off part of the selvage so I couldn't read the brand. JoAnns sells the exact same fabric for less. I refuse to shop at a store on-line that sends poor quality fabric. I cannot do the feel test on the fabric, so I have to assume they wouldn't charge quilt-store prices for chain store fabric.

I guess when we get a good fabric at Wal-Mart, we are thrilled because we don't expect the quality to be all that good.

I know I saw on the VIP Cranston website that they were offering pre-cuts in FQs, jelly rolls, and other yardage at selected Walmarts. So probably those of you who found good ones got those.

At our Walmart FQ are $3.95 each and we have very little variety my LQS sells FQ of all her fabric from $1.95 and up!

I just mentioned that on another thread. I bought fall fatquarters from Vip a few days ago. they are color coordinated and they are beautiful. I am so pleased with the fabric ,I am going back to walmart tomorrow to get another set.

I just bought the same set of fat quarters and they're really nice! I was surprise as I had not been too impressed with some of their earlier precuts. I will buy more. :)

I saw the post you mentioned in your post and even sent our Walmart an email about fabrics. I am very sorry to say I got a very disappointing reply. I am adding it to this so everyone can see that sadly not all of us are going to be as lucky as you. We have 5 Walmarts within 40 min drive and not one will e handling anything other than minimun stuff. I have to go to Wooster, OH to get a WM store with real farbric, and that is only because of the large Amish population. I think WM doesn't believe anyone else sews.

WM response, "Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding the fabric department in your local store. As with any merchandise decision that we make, we have based our decision to reduce the stitching and fabric departments on customer demand, which does not appear to be as high today for a full stitching and fabric offering in some markets as it may have been at Walmart in the past. In keeping with our emphasis on being a store of the community, Walmart is converting the fabrics and crafts department in some stores to a newly expanded assortment of merchandise that focuses on life's celebrations. We are thrilled to offer our customers this exciting new crafts and celebrations center that makes available craft and party planning needs along with information on current trends and new ideas in the area of life's celebrations, such as holidays, weddings and birthdays. In those stores where the new crafts and celebrations center is placed, merchandise commonly referred to as 'notions' will be included in the product offerings - such as sewing machines, yarn, needles, thread, etc. As a part of this conversion, most of our new and remodeled stores that opened earlier this year, as well as a small number of existing stores, will feature the new crafts and celebrations center in place of bolt fabrics. Walmart will continue to carry cut fabric in most of our stores. Due to the continued evaluation of our stores, we are unable to share a list of existing stores scheduled to receive the new crafts and celebrations center at this time." Sincerely,Walmart Customer Care