Brace yourself--you're in for a SHOCKer
#41
That's a shame. We grow plenty of cotton here. Most of our fabs come from outside the U.S. The small shops will be hurt. I can't even afford to pay $9 a yard, so I wait for coupons from chain stores.
#43
I will hit the sale racks. I find a lot of good stuff there. Then I will be able to afford an expensive one I just gotta have. :) Thank goodness my stash is very large. I pigged out on trips with my friends.
#44
I jus think that they are going to price themselves out of business. The ecomomy is still not doing that well, unemployment is still high....the economy just won't be able to support that kind of price for long. So they will either have to drop back their prices, or go out of business. There is such a thing as pricing an item so high that no one will buy it. Then they have to react to that.
#45
Originally Posted by Luv Quilts and Cats
I jus think that they are going to price themselves out of business. The ecomomy is still not doing that well, unemployment is still high....the economy just won't be able to support that kind of price for long. So they will either have to drop back their prices, or go out of business. There is such a thing as pricing an item so high that no one will buy it. Then they have to react to that.
#47
Our cotton is shipped overseas and made into cloth some comes here to be printed, other, overseas. We lost alot of our textile mills due to pollution and they could not afford extractors to keep the air clean. Now we must pay the price. Speaking, of which, our dollar is sooo devalued. What we paid $10.00 for 8 years ago, we now pay 16.00. Add to that the shipping cost over the last few years are out of sight. We lost the mills, the jobs, now pay more plus shipping....what a deal!!
#48
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I'm just wondering, will this have an effect on us English/UK quilters.
I've noticed this last six months or so, some shops have been slowly hiking up their prices despite some being inferior quality fabric. It may be just certain brands, or those particular shops having the quilting monopoly in their area etc.
But if the £ per supplies that are imported from the States are going up, it may have a knock-on effect here.
I've noticed this last six months or so, some shops have been slowly hiking up their prices despite some being inferior quality fabric. It may be just certain brands, or those particular shops having the quilting monopoly in their area etc.
But if the £ per supplies that are imported from the States are going up, it may have a knock-on effect here.
#49
Originally Posted by hobo2000
Our cotton is shipped overseas and made into cloth some comes here to be printed, other, overseas. We lost alot of our textile mills due to pollution and they could not afford extractors to keep the air clean. Now we must pay the price. Speaking, of which, our dollar is sooo devalued. What we paid $10.00 for 8 years ago, we now pay 16.00. Add to that the shipping cost over the last few years are out of sight. We lost the mills, the jobs, now pay more plus shipping....what a deal!!
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