leevenora

I agree with Julie, shop that stash.

sweetana3

I am not sure than any of this is new. I am making scrap quilts from fabric from a variety of places and ages. The texture and "thinness" varies across all lines over time. I prefer the "thick" white base goods, Judy Rothermel uses a lot of this, but go for color and design over all.

I have not noticed a problem at any of the LQS's visited. Lovely fabric with a good feel and lots of color.

faykilgore

We'd love to see a picture of all that! I'm sorry for your loss and congrats on your booty!

faykilgore

Several of our members have posted about downsizing their stashes. Hopefully we can help them and benefit ourselves.

margee

I also saw that in Walmart but still decided I could use it for some things.

Jackie Spencer

Almost all quiltshops have a clearance or sale or end of bolt section, even on line, I shop there first.

hobo2000

Some very fine fabrics coming in from Pakistan and India. They use the long fiber cottons which make very fine fabric, almost like silk but very strong. They cover themselves head to toe due to the heat so they need fine (thin) fabric. Don't be shy if it's thin and silky, it will wear like iron. I agree to stay away from more open weave but even then I have bought pieces and washed them and with the cotton shrinking, the fabric was extremely nice after ironing. It really is a different market today for cotton.

momto5

I have a shop in my home...as I was doing my tax workup this year, I stopped long enough to total up what I had spent and what I got year before last as opposed to the same question for last year: I was appalled and SHOCKED to find that my yardage was about the same, but even though I had exclusively shopped sales of all kinds and did whatever I could to control costs, my costs were TWICE AS MUCH!!! My accountant just said, "Well, things of all kinds are increasing in cost." And my reply was "Twice as much???" So, I guess the solution is to refuse to pay exhorbitant costs (despite all the excuses about the cotton crops being so bad, etc. ad nauseum....) and shop our stashes until something happens to bring these folks to their senses....JMHO...

GramMER

I am way sympathetic with your experience and have been decrying the same things for years now. I am probably 20 years your senior, since I have great grans, but let me assure you there are stores out there who have quality cloth. I have no idea where they get their supply, but it is there in a place or two. I found one shop in a remote district of SC one year and you can imagine they charged well for everything they stocked. I think I paid about $25 per yard for what I bought. Colors were bright and clear and designs were outstanding.

At the same time I saw the quality of cloth changing, I also saw shops going to crafty junk rather than true sewing quality. I wanted Swiss batiste for smocking and dotted Swiss, etc, but all that died when the craft stores took over. Quality was not the order of the day after the good cloth went out.

Keep searching! Ask neighbors and friends who also sew and one day you will find that special shop.

taylorsgmom

Thank you so much for this site. It seems to be a fantastic way of adding to stashes and saving time.