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I went to walmart today and they had 5 carts of new fabric to put out more fabric on the way.they also geting bolts at a 1.50 yard they don't know what the warehouse will send them. At 1.50 we have no fabric for quilting at 8.00 a yard here I found some beautiful cheater cloth that look like a quilt pattern in blue and yellow 90 in wide for 1.50yd
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After reading all of your posts everyone has different opinions of Walmart fabric. I have at the most 4 walmarts close by and each one carry low quality and high quality. Yes the high quality is at $8 a yd and beautiful so I did buy some to make pillowcases and guess what? T hey came out so well and the softness and quality of the cotton was as if I bought if from an lqs. The problem for me is that both of my lqs's are far out so its either Joanns or Walmart. I look for the quality of the cotton on these fabrics and some of the Walmart fabrics are cheap and easily frayed. Some of the walmarts here in my area carry good and not so good fabrics anywhere from $4-8 a yd. It all depends on what you are using the fabric for. I for one would rather buy at an lqs to support them but with gas prices going up and driving 45 mins to one its not feasible for me. Just my two cents...:o
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I make Project Linus quilts and I sometimes buy fabric at WM for those, but I go to my LQS for fabric for quilts that I want to keep or give as gifts. Some of the WM fabric is better quality than they before they closed the dept. and reopened it. You have to watch what you buy.
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our walmart does not have fabric and dont like the area of the one in town
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I got 2 b&w jellyrolls at WM last night on clearance for $1 ea!
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i have purchased some fabrics at Walmart in the past, but when they brought fabric back it was higher in price and the selection is poor, so I don't even think of looking for fabric there anymore
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ours have also gone up inprice but seems the fabs are better quality cotton has gone up also
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Everything has gone UP and UP . WE have to wait for a sale anymore.
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Wow You complain at $8.00 a yard we pay $22.00 a mtr or more here in Australia and thats only 3 inches more than a yard
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I must agree WM has competition, but in our area my local store has only the fat qtrs and small 5" squares, in Manchester, NH. However, in Amherst, NH they have a full line of sewing & quilting products. Our Joann's store is horrible, they redesigned the store and the quality of the fabric is just not there. We have another fabric store in NH that when asked for Batiks, I found Died Fabric bolts being sold off as Batiks, which were mixed in with other bolts marked Batiks on them the other fabric doesn't have the quality of the Batiks name. This only shows you really have to shop around for good fabric. I have a really great store they have 2 small rooms filled with sale fabric which includes no less Top Line Batiks, this is the store in McCalls Quilting - store name: The Quilted Threads, it's a great place.
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