sew cornie

What would you consider a good price/yard for LQS quality quilting fabric at a garage sale? How about for FQs?

SueZQ from MN

The first question you must ask yourself is how badly do you want to get rid of it? For me, money in my pocket beats fabric in storage every time. I had over a thousand yards of fabric that I wanted to sell and marked it $3/yd. It all went away along with 150 fat quarters at $1 each. Did I lose money? Maybe, but a lot of it had been in my stash a long time and needed to go elsewhere as I wasn't ever going to use it. It all went away and I had cash and room to buy something new. This might be too inexpensive for you, but in my area it was a good deal on nice fabric and everybody ended up happy.

WMUTeach

I agree with SuzieQ.. I walked away from a garage sale this summer with lovely fabric and precuts because yardage was about $4 less than LQS prices and the precuts, layer cakes and jelly rolls were $25 and up. I would pay those prices if it was something I WANTED and it was not just something I liked and would use :"someday". I stopped by the sale mid-afternoon on the last day and no one was buying. The gal had a featherweight beautifully displayed for $550.

If you want the fabric out of your stash, price it to sell and make someone very happy. Stash that is unused has no value.

cashs_mom

Sue's prices sound good to me. I've bought fabrics from garage and estate sales and I've noticed that fabrics priced in that area sell well.

KalamaQuilts

3-4 bucks a pound, don't cut yardage, buck for fat quarters.
Fabric is worsse than new car depreciation, loses value when you walk out the door with it.

sew cornie

Thank you for the input. I was thinking along those lines, $4/yard and $1/FQ, but was uncertain if that's too high. I'll probably start with that and then drop the prices if things aren't moving.

bearisgray

There are 3.5 to 4 yards of regular width "quilting" fabric in a pound.

dunster

The other thing to consider is how much fabric you have to sell. If it's a large amount and you are only selling quilting-related things, you can advertise it as a quilter's stash sale and attract quilters from all around. They tend to be serious buyers if the price is right. If you're just trying to unload a few pieces in a regular yard sale you're less likely to have buyers for the fabric.

Around here, $4/yard or a little less is common, with $1 for FQs. My guild had a de-stashing sale and priced it as $5/pound.

annievee

I sold a lot of yardages left on bolt if you have the bolt. Good Luck !

QuiltE

Keep It Simple!!!
.. a per pound price makes a lot more sense and a lot less fiddling when selling.
Avoids in pre-measuring or doing so, in front of the customer!
Even more sense, if you have different widths of fabrics and/or working with offcuts and/or scraps.

The customer can do their own estimation on the yardage!!

I'd include the FQs in the weigh out process as well, Saves someone saying, oh this one is not quite a FQ or, this one is bigger than a FQ, etc!

You could always have a flexible pricing to encourage $ale$
example
one pound and under ...... $ set price
2-5 lbs ..... $/pound
5-10 lbs .... a lower $/pound price
10 lbs and over ..... even lower $/pound price