Kre8iveKat

I have ordered from them.. they were real quick with their shipping and twas packaged rather well. I would order from them again the fabric was gorgeous. hope this helps

quiltyjax

Like many of you I'm on a tight budget, so I always wait for the February sale -£2/m last year - in one of our LQS'. If I haven't got a project in mind I buy in 5m lengths which will make backing if nothing else, then I buy "my colours" so that later stash shopping will be successful. Sometimes the owner puts jelly rolls in the sale and last year I bought 2 that were twice reduced and so a bargain. I'm also a charity shopper - I love those shops! Summer shirts, skirts and dresses yield metres of fabric. None of my quilts have up to date colours or this year's designs but then nor do my clothes - never pay full price for them either.

Izaquilter

will definately start watching what I buy. I look twice at fabric that is $10 a yd. Guess it's the initial sticker shock! But yes I will be cutting back & watching my buys more carefully.

sewbizgirl

I consider anything more than about $5-6 a yard too pricey to just collect. I would have to really love it and have a specific purpose for it to spend more than that. I usually buy fabrics on sale or shop on days when our fabric store offers the quilting fabrics 50% off.

Why are batiks so dadgum high? Just because they are popular?

Favorite Fabrics

Batiks are very labor-intensive as they are printed by hand, not machine, and there are many steps involved.

I found this informative link about how they are made:

http://www.murnis.com/articles_by_mu...ake_batik.html

yolanda

I rarely go over $7.98 a yard for designer fabric. If I do it must be something I want very badly. I usually wait until it hits fabric.com and then use a 20% off coupon.

I quit buying batiks :(

PS.. at the moment I am on a spending freeze so I am buying nothing until my stash is at least 50% reduced.

madamepurl

I'm a new quilter and have been very tempted by the kits that they put together in my LQS. I have bought a few full price that I had to have, but one store puts them on 40% off when it's the last one. So several of them have come home with me at 40% off - that is hard to resist. The owner of that particular shop though told me that cotton prices are going up next year due to several cotton crops being destroyed due to weather - I think flooding.

Dolphyngyrl

No, i buy the good stuff when i get gift certificates, so i don't feel guilty about spending it

roselady

I am going to sound like I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth. For the last two years we have had a drastically reduced income, so I am very selective when I buy quilting things, fabric etc... I really look for bargins. But... I would rather have 1 yard of a fabric that I LOVE, than 3 yards of a fabric that is "nice". So I guess my answer is yes, and no.

Jo Mama

You have integrity and honesty. Can't find fault with that.