Fat Quarter Ripe-off
09-24-2011, 08:07 AM
#83
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It is a good idea to check your fabric before buying. But it's like buying a case of tomatoes. You can't cut open every tomato to see if it is about to rotten. When buying fatquarters make sure you don't need that size but smaller. I bet that if she washed that fatquarter before cutting , she would have an even smaller piece of fabric and possibly even more off the the grain than before. I have only been to one fabric store in my area that when you get quilting fabric they are told to rip it to size. And like Eleanor Burns says that is the only way to get the true grain of the fabric. Imagine a store like JoAnns doing that with every fatquarter they sell. No way.
09-24-2011, 08:19 AM
#85
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You bet you should. I have noticed that the cotton is slowy rising and then of course they say it's 30 percent off almost always so you can't use your coupons. So I would not hesitate to go back and get either the right FQS or your money back.
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Originally Posted by stitchengramie
I just brought 6 fat quarters from the JoAnn's Rustling Leaves Collection. The size stated is 18" x 21". I thought a fat quarter was 18" x 22". I am unhappy with the the size, but I am frustrated with the fact that all 6 fat quarters were cut so crooked, that I had to cut 2" off each one in order to use them.
Should I say something to the store manager at JoAnn's about this?
Crooked fabric cost money and less fabric to use.
Mary/stitchengramie
Should I say something to the store manager at JoAnn's about this?
Crooked fabric cost money and less fabric to use.
Mary/stitchengramie
09-24-2011, 08:23 AM
#86
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Location: North Texas
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I would talk to the store mgr. Lots of patterns call for fq's, and to be shorted one or two inches could really cause problems. Especially if you bought the fabric and set it aside for awhile, then you couldn't get more.
09-24-2011, 08:47 AM
#88
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Originally Posted by Dianemarie
Absolutly you should say something. The employees cut those and their job is not being done correctly and the consumer is being ripped off ! Worse when you get home you don't have enough of the fabric for what you were going to use it for !
09-24-2011, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by catray
You're looking at a corp. that does hundreds, if not thousands of fatquarters. And as my husband just told me, and this applies to the large companys that control our lives, "you can't fix stupid".
I once worked making circuit boards for a company, my quality was perfect, but they didn't value that, they wanted more numbers from me, even though the 'bad
boards would be thrown in the trash. I told them that I wasn't brought up that way and that I would never do a sloppy job for the sake of numbers! There was a huuuuuge container out back with all the imperfect boards thrown in it. I refered to that container and said if I owned the company and saw all that wasted copper due to sloppy work, I'd have a cat!!!!!
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