BellaBoo

Went to one Walmart today that has fabric. No bins of bolts but a whole shelf of $1 per yard fabric. None I liked. I bought 11 yards of David's Textile fabric for $2.44 a yard. David's Textile fabric is pretty nice. It's better then the $4.44 per yard on the quilting wall. I posted before where I machine quilted one yard of this fabric together and toss it in the laundry with every load, even the bleach loads. it's been a few months and at least 25 washing and the fabric still looks great. No shredding at the stitch lines, no obvious wear. The color may not be as vivid but since I don't have any new I can't tell.

penski

i just got back from my walmart that has material and was told what used to be 1.00 yard fabric is now 2.00 yard and they have a small batch of 1.50 yard but as far as the 1.00 a yard on a 5 yard bolt she said she knew nothing about it

nursie76

Hmmmm...it does make you wonder how it is determined which stores that still carry fabric would have this. The lady at the cutting table of the first one I went to said that it was "something my manager is doing" so perhaps the managers were offered an opportunity to have this sale and some chose not to. I guess we will never know.

penski

i was thinking maybe they thought walmart customers from differant states wouldnt talk and my walmart that isnt having the sale would rather pocket the extra couple bucks back in the store than to let the customer have a great deal

garysgal

that's interesting because our walmart raised their fabric less than a dollar a yard. Maybe the managers get to fix the sales, I don't know. I just hope that what I was told (ours would keep their fabric) is true, but I wonder if maybe the sales people don't know what is going on either.

pennyswings

WTG on your find. So where are the pictures??

nursie76

My pics are on page 2, but I sure would like to see what the others have been lucky enough to snag...hint, hint...

moonrise

DH went to our Walmart last night, and they had the $5 bolts. Woo hoo! Some were rather beauty-challenged, but others were quite pretty. Everything said "unknown content", but he found some that we *think* are cotton.

He picked out 3 bolts for me, and I've got them washing as we speak. Two are pink floral, and the other is a light green floral.

He's going back after while to see if they've put some more out.
:mrgreen:

Even if I just use them for backing, it'll be much cheaper than their new "regular" price of $4.60-something to $4.90-something per yard. :shock:

moonrise

Here's some photos DH snapped of the $5 bolts with his cell phone last night. I stayed at home instead of going to the store with him, but I shopped from his photos. LOL!

I go To The Sea To Breathe

Our WM says they are not closing our Fabric Dept. That there would really be some mad people if they did. Maybe it has to do with where you live. We are in South Dakota, I noticed Montana is keeping theirs, wonder about Nebraska, ND, WY, Idaho, maybe Iowa of course Nebraska has Omaha, and Iowa has a couple of really large cities. Would be interesting to know if that has anything to do with it. Since we are kind of out in the boonies sometimes.