Walmart - good and bad news
#21
Our local walmarts have brought fabric back and they did bring in the new stuff at $8.97 a yd! I do admit they are beautiful and I did buy one yd to see. The cotton isn't that bad at all. I've made pillowcases with them but at that price and the quality and its local, saving on gas vs. going to my lqs 45 mins. away I'd opt to purchase at wally world. Yes they do have $5.44 a yd fabric but not much in solids there. Just my opinion
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Vinton, Louisiana
Posts: 40
I bought some beautiful quilting fabric a few weeks ago from the "February Collection" and it was 3.97/yard. I went back a few days later and all of the fabrics the clerk had checked in that day were 7.97/yard. Same quality. Still it is a savings over some of the 12.00/yard fabrics.
I also bought some from Hobby Lobby that was 12.00/yard, but they have the everyday 30%, so I don't worry about that cost so much. Our craft is getting much more expensive. I guess we could all start sewing from our stash. Nah!
I also bought some from Hobby Lobby that was 12.00/yard, but they have the everyday 30%, so I don't worry about that cost so much. Our craft is getting much more expensive. I guess we could all start sewing from our stash. Nah!
#23
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Vinton, Louisiana
Posts: 40
I agree. Solids do not appear to be important to WM. It is a bit puzzling.
Our local walmarts have brought fabric back and they did bring in the new stuff at $8.97 a yd! I do admit they are beautiful and I did buy one yd to see. The cotton isn't that bad at all. I've made pillowcases with them but at that price and the quality and its local, saving on gas vs. going to my lqs 45 mins. away I'd opt to purchase at wally world. Yes they do have $5.44 a yd fabric but not much in solids there. Just my opinion
#24
My Walmart still doesn't have fabric back, either. One clerk was not sure where they'd put it. I can never get an answer from any of the clerks. No one seems to know if or when. I'll have to try to find the manager, but I bet he'll be evasive, too. There's no competition in theis end of town. I wish they'd get going!!!!
#25
The prices in JoAnns and Hancocks here don't seem to have gone up as fast as y'all are describing for your stores (but I haven't really been shopping, except the remnant bin, so I may just not have noticed yet). What I can't understand is how Canadian quilters can afford to make anything larger than a potholder - whenever I go back to my Native Land I visit the LQS in my hometown, and the prices are always $17-22/meter (!!). I would be a very fearful quilter at those prices Or maybe I would just shop Value Village and Goodwill for old clothes to take apart...
#26
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Illinois
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The way fabric prices are going up some of us are going to be rethinking how we buy fabric. As for me no more buying fabric just because I like it. SOB, SNIFFLE, CRY, Now I only buy when I need it and shop my stash first. Fixed incomes only stretch so far before they snap back and hit you in the face, LOL OH well it is still fun to look.
Sorry for double post, when I checked for this post I did first I couldn't find it so did another one.
margee
Last edited by margee; 03-01-2012 at 04:44 AM.
#28
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Illinois
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I no longer buy just because I like the fabric either. When I really need a "fix" I go to LQS and buy one=quarrter yd of some fabrics I can use for applique in quilts. So I'm happy but not as happy as previously.
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