Why Fabric is going up
12-30-2010, 01:03 PM
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I did a lot of reseaching today on why fabric prices are going up. The biggest thing is the dollar is week right now and doesn't have the buying power that it had last year. It is not just the cotton raising the prices. The loss of some of the manufactures in the United states closing there doors and relying on foreign manufactures. I just look at it as a glut pricing on the market forcing prices up and who knows what is going to come of it. The saying is what comes up must come down. Consumers like us are the ones who get stuck in the pocket book. Some how some way things need to balance out. If you want to search it out just put in cotton prices going up in a search....you will get a lot of info.
12-30-2010, 01:09 PM
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There are times that the nightly news will have three stories about things going up in price, e.g. gasoline, coffee and gold. The truth is that there is only one story; the dollar fell in value.
12-30-2010, 02:08 PM
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There are a lot of forces causing Cotton fabric to go up. The floods in Asia took out a lot of cotton crops, the cost of transpertation to get it here, and I'm sure that the falling dollar dosen't help.
Cotton not only affects fabric, unless you're using polyester, your batting will be more expensive as well.
As far as what goes up will come down, not likely to any extent, at least for a year or two.
The truth is fabric is going to cost stores like mine more to buy in the new year, and if we want to stay in business, we have to raise prices as well. Hopefully we can minimize the added expense. The more you continue to shop the LQS, the better chance we have of doing that. If quilters stop visiting LQS's they will either have to raise prices or go out of business.
Lanny
Cotton not only affects fabric, unless you're using polyester, your batting will be more expensive as well.
As far as what goes up will come down, not likely to any extent, at least for a year or two.
The truth is fabric is going to cost stores like mine more to buy in the new year, and if we want to stay in business, we have to raise prices as well. Hopefully we can minimize the added expense. The more you continue to shop the LQS, the better chance we have of doing that. If quilters stop visiting LQS's they will either have to raise prices or go out of business.
Lanny
12-30-2010, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Treasureit
"The saying is what comes up must come down." Doesn't seem to work that way very often!
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12-30-2010, 02:17 PM
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LOL, the price of fabric has always been "up" in my house. My husband doesn't understand why us Quilters are sooooo addicted to our fabric. Luckily i've been finding treasure hunt finds at our second hand thrift stores which have caused my stocks to grow rather significantly, so I've been lucky to not have to buy very much from the craft/fabrics stores recently.
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