Originally Posted by chamby
Originally Posted by TanyaMas
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
WalMart does not sell batiks at all, but tie dye fabric to look like batiks. The best quality fabric Walmart sells is the Quilt of the Month fabric. I have one yard of David Textile's print sold there, folded and machined quilted that I have put in every load of clothes I have washed for over a month. Some bleach loads. I'm doing my own experiement. So far the fabric may be a little faded next to the new but not weaken at all. No shredding at the seams. I'm perfectly pleased with it for all make and use quilts. For my heirloom pass down and never use keep hands off quilt I will buy the $12 a yard fabric.
According to the definition of Batik...
WalMart does sell Batiks.
Due to modern advances in the textile industry, the term has been extended to include fabrics that incorporate traditional batik patterns even if they are not produced using the wax-resist dyeing techniques.
regardless of what they are called... they are pretty :D
and for those of us that cant spend $12 a yard, they work quite well :D
My oldest daughter still has the quilt i made her before she was born, with WalMart fabric... and it has been overly well loved and washed hundreds of time.
I understand that many dont like it, but for some WalMart is the difference between being able to do what you love and laying in bed staring at the ceiling tiles :D
TanyaMas,
I totally agree with you. I have never had any problems with Walmart fabric. However we no longer have fabric at our walmart. Some people believe that if they are not spending a large amount of money then they are not getting quality. Just like those who insist on buying name brand at the grocery store.
They would not dare buy the store brand. They come from the same place they just place the stores name on the packaging. I do agree that some store brands are not good.
As for the fabric you can judge mostly by the feel. I agree the private shops charge way too much for their fabric.
There is nothing wrong with looking for a bargin and buying on sale. Just because you pay top dollar does not always mean you have gotten quality.
I disagree that people shop at LQS because they want to have brand names. I am happy to buy store brand until I try one and it is clearly not as good as the brand name. Then it's back to brand name for me. Same as with fabric - if I find a cheaper substitute for really nice fabric, I am happy to buy it. But I have not found much at WM that is an adequate substitute for fabric from a LQS - I can tell by the feel. It has nothing to do with brand name and everything to do with buying what satisfies me to use. Top dollar does not always mean quality, but you don't typically get high quality for bottom dollar. And I don't see many quilt owners getting rich - more of them close because they can't make a living, so I don't think that you can make a blanket statement that fabric at LQS is priced too high. It might be too high for you and that's fine.
Why does everyone seem to care so much about what other people buy? You might have a nicer car than most - no one tells you you're dumb to waste your money when a cheaper car would get you where you're going. It's important to you - that's good enough. If it's important to someone to buy really high quality fabric, that should be good enough for the rest of us.