I was just at my local Walmart and went to the fabric dept, haven't been in a while. Guess what they have mini bolts of 3 yards 19.97 & lots of fat q's. A few were even nice quality. Wonder if this means we will eventually get real fabric back

Never seen a mini bold. How cool, are they nice fabrics? The fat quarters actually dropped in price here at our store.

Our store has never discontinued but the fabric that was $3.99 and $4.99 a year ago is now $6.49 and 6.99. I have kinda stuck with LQS except for backing fabrics. It's much better quality for $8.99 and $9.99 and I help support the little guy.

I was just at ours today. They had a section called "quilt fabric" that was very nice for $4.49 a yard. Some of the other fabrics were less expensive, but not as good a quality. They are just moving the fabrics and stuff back in this week.

I hope the walmart closest to me get it back... they had a bin of bolts of 2 yards/ $5.00 last week... but a variety of content from polyester to knit.... little to no cotton.

That seems kinda high for WM. Joanns carries these for $12.00 reg. price. They are on sale right now for $9.74. I have used them before with no problem.

I think that's cheap. I'm in Canada & it's marked yards not meters as it should be. So I'm thinking it's old stock from US stores that are getting real bolts of fabric.

I have found WM to have nicer fabrics in the last few months. There was a National announcement just today that they are going back to Fabrics. The bigbox stores pushed all the Mom and Pop fabric stores out of my area so we never lost the bolts of bfabric but we are rural.

The FQ's and packaged yardage at my Walmart is mostly made by Cranston Village. Good quality fabric.

Just got my weekly Walmart flyer in the mail today.
It says fabrics are back, we now have fabrics in over 2,000 stores. New, expanded assortment.
It shows a picture of row of fabrics and has a couple of sewing machines on sale.
This is the first time Ive seen a flyer with just sewing and crafts.

My local WM opened about 2 years ago and never did carry fabrics so I don't think we'll be getting a fabric department. However, the store 12 miles from my house that did have fabrics now is reopening their department. It doesn't have near as many fabrics as they did, but there seems to be a decent selection.

Also, perhaps everyone but me knew this, but a friend just told me recently that WM fabric can be ordered online, then sent via their Site to Store, so even though there is tax, there is no shipping.

Our Walmart got fabric back (dept not full yet but growing) I bought some that seemed nice for a quilt, washed it and am so disappointed in the quality after washing, very flimsy, it was not like that before washing. Must be full of "filler/stablilizer" that washes out.

Some of the fabric quality is on the rough side and not good for quilting, but I you look some of the fabric is very nice. Same quality and feel as we have been getting at JoAnnes around here lately. It is much cheaper to. I even recognize some of the names. It is a matter of picking and choosing. Probably like everywhere but the LQS who sell high quality fabrics.

WM does have some great material I think as well. U just have to look at it and check it out. Seems like it is mostly at our Super WM though.

Was just at my WM and the fabric section has shrunk -- just precuts with no price reduction. Fewer quilt tools, bummer.

Our Walmart has fabric on bolts back. Not a very big selection. They have one section of $l.50yd.I think you're
getting what you pay for in that section. They had some
muslin at $4.89 per yd...and I didn't think it was good
quality. You might be able to use it for backing, but I don't think I would want it n the quilt top. Just be sure
you feel of it before you buy. If you are a quilter, it's
easy to tell if it's good quality or not.

our just got a small fabric dept. put back in. The fabric is AWEFUL...especially at those prices...not worth $2.00!

Ours has cheap looking and feeling fabrics, very rough feeling, and the stuff on the table is material for sheer curtains, etc., no cottons at all. The prices for the fabric are as high as in a LQS. I wonder what they look like, after being washed, very disappointing.

There is a Super WM here and I have not seen much difference in the fabrics. They have FQ's and some little mini bolts but not much at all. It would be nice if they did get more fabric back.

Our WM does not have fabric but it did get in quilting tools and that was great, they were at a good price but I sure they would get in fabric.

Last week saw the one of the managers of our local WM superstore, which discontinued fabric dept. several years ago-because women don;t sew anymore-that was their reason!!! Anyway, asked her if fab was coming back, she hesitated and then said...maybe bulk fabric, I guess like the small bolts talked about here..but not to quote her.....Pitiful, in my estimation..this WM is located in a rather rural area and women do sew here!!!! Now the closest WM that has a full fab dept is 23 miles away, and yes I make the trek there for fab and do my "other" shopping there too (with a cooler in the back of car for perishables). No action at our local superstore though...

We got our fabric dept. back at one close store, the other close store removed all sewing notions completly. I don't consider myself a fabric snob and have always shopped at walmarts and Joanns with an eye (should say feel) for the better stuff. But I've got to tell you I did buy a yard of some fabric that felt good, stretched right etc. I washed it......I held it up to the light....I think I could have read my neighor across the streets address through it. Whatever they coated it with was washed out and the hand of the fabric was completly different <very big sigh>....on another note...one compelling reason to wash all fabric before you sew (IMHO)

I agree with you. I was shocked at the prices of our Walmart even for muslin. I will stick with our LQS because for just a couple more dollars per yard, you get a much better quality.

if our walmart doesent get going on the fabric department, im going to have to move!

our wal mart finally has bolts of fabric the only problem is that when I'm in there after work on a Friday night there is NO ONE to cut fabric, I would cut it myself but I don't know how to use the scanner. It's a pain having to find someone to page and then wait for the other person to come cut. They have some nice fabric and the price range is $3.47-$5.97

I have experienced fabrics of higher and lower quality at my LQS as well as WalMart and others such as Hobby Lobby, JoAnns and Hancocks. When our WalMart had fabric department, I have seen one of our LQS owners come and buy fabric at WalMart and sell it in her store at a higher price. My experience is just because it is an LQS, the quality is not always top of the line. I think you have to look for quality wherever you shop. IMHO

I visited our Walmart yesterday and the ladies were filling the shelves with new fabrics. I found a packet of 4 yards for $8, all different kinds of prints; 2 yards of 2 fabrics. I chose one with birds and animals, very pretty and good quality. Don't know what I will do with them but I couldn't resist the bargain. A whole line of Christmas fabric and flannels I never saw before, starting to look like a real fabric department again here.

Carol J.

boo hoooo, still no fabric at our walmarts here!!

I went into my local Walmart yesterday - it is a junk alley - what a shame - things being brought out for display now is stuck into the fabric department where you can't get to the fabric and the space between fabric selections is so small you can't push your cart through - and it's a shame what they are doing there - I am going to call the store manager and scream! Just cause it is not their most widely used department - they could at least leave open to those of us who do use it - not sure what is going on - but at least they still have fabric, adn I think I may have seen some of those 3yard bolts also - but could not get to them!

Yesterday I bought a charm pack of 100 - 25 each of 4 different neutrals (white on cream, white on white, etc.) for $10.

Yes, WalMart fabric has really gone up, but we still have our fabric dept. The town 2 of my children live in had the first Super WalMart in the county and it took the fabric out and also the fabric shop that was there closed because WalMart took her business, so now there is no fabric store there. The manager there said the fabric would NOT come back.

Stoped at my Walmart last night for a quick in and out of things I needed but alway run through the fabric dep. Man what a mess so much material piled every where can't see would have to move to see what a joke what is the use of having all that material if you can't get to it to see? I could have spent a couple of hours in there moving bolts to see what is under and in the next pile. Plus the cutting table was piled high with stationary items only a little space for cutting. How sad before our SuperWal-Marts we had a great fabric dep large and huge cutting tables and lots of material but when the superstore opend fabric was downsized to one isle with cutting in middle one side fabric the other yarn.
Like I said if I could shop else where I would I really hate walmarts and hate spending my hard earned money in there but they are about the only game in town. Our K-Mart I shop for alot of things but they don't have crafts or fabric,and some things are cheaper at WM. Only one other grocery store in town and I do shop there for my meat will not buy WM meat.

FOR THE TIME BEING OUR WALMART STILL HAS FARIC AND A REAL PERSON TO HELP. I DETEST PRE PKG STUFF, BUT I SEE IT SHOWING UP ON ADJACENT SHELVES, AND HEAR THAT IS THE NEW MARKETING STRATEGY NOW, MORE LIKE CRAFTS AND NO EMPLOYEES TO PAY.:(

Yes. When Walmart abolished their fabric departments, the public responded so overwhelmingly and the money lost on those shoppers has spoken to their Board of Directors. All WalMarts are reinstating their fabric departments. It was only to take a month but some are lagging behind. The Super WalMarts should already be set up. Apparently there is truth that money talks!

I think the availablity is coming. From the report I read it was all going to have fabric again. Watch and it will show up.

written from Illinois....so I hope it means our supercenter.....hope it will be with cutting, not just prepackaged mini bolts.....we will see...

I purchased a yard of fabric from a LQS for $9.00 a yard and decided later I wanted more. They were sold out so I looked for it on the Internet and couldn't find it. I called the company listed on the selvage and was told they manufactured it for Walmart under a different name and item number. I did go to Walmart and they had the fabric for $4.47 per yd. I purchased the whole bolt but when I got home and compared it to what I had bought at the quilt shop I could immediately feel the difference in the quality of the two fabrics. Not knocking Walmart, just saying you get what you pay for.

We have a very nice dept in our smaller W-Mart (in a semi-small town) - I like their quilting section as they have the fabric bolts color-coordinated which helps me to envision better. I sometimes feel like "if I could just cut my own, I could be on my way" - but maybe one day they can have a customer-operated scanning system that supplies the yardage and price. :-)

Chech where it was made. It may be the same name brand, but some of the companies are making the same patterns in different quality.

It is well known within the design industry that prints can be printed on any number of base cloths if the buyer wants to commit to enough yardage(walmart in this case), so yes you do get what you pay for. :-D