Fat Quarters or Yardage
#21
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Somewhere in Time
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Where I shop they cut their own FQs from ends of bolts. They sell them all for $.99 each. It is great because if you just need a small amount to finish your project, you can sometimes find it on the FQs wall.
#25
The Jo-Ann Fabrics by me sells them for $1.99 each. I buy them if I only need a small amount of that color, or if they are on sale. Mostly I plan ahead what quilts I need to make and then buy the fabric I need by the yard or more. I only buy my fabric when it is on sale, or if I can get a discount for buying 10 or more yards. Then I stock up.
#27
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: North Kansas City, MO
Posts: 561
Fat Quarters are a bit more expensive, however, as a beginning quilter there are a couple of things you might want to consider:
By all means, buy yardage and save your leftover strips and pieces to build your stash AND Buy Fat Quarters to add immediate variety to your stash.
While the fat quarters are more expensive, you can always find super deals on Ebay. Don't forget thrift stores as a source of stash builders (men's shirts, dresses, etc.) Cut the seams away when you get home and call it new fabric:>)
Welcome and Good luck
By all means, buy yardage and save your leftover strips and pieces to build your stash AND Buy Fat Quarters to add immediate variety to your stash.
While the fat quarters are more expensive, you can always find super deals on Ebay. Don't forget thrift stores as a source of stash builders (men's shirts, dresses, etc.) Cut the seams away when you get home and call it new fabric:>)
Welcome and Good luck
#28
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 2,842
if you want a small piece better to buy 1/3 yds only a few pennies more than a fat Q and you get 45 inches instead of 22 like a fat.
Buy nuetrals biege, white, gray and so on in 3 yd pieces always need a background
buy fabrics that coordinate not necessarily from the same line
have florals, muted and fabrics w/ movement in your stash
Buy nuetrals biege, white, gray and so on in 3 yd pieces always need a background
buy fabrics that coordinate not necessarily from the same line
have florals, muted and fabrics w/ movement in your stash
#29
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Central PA
Posts: 3,736
In my earlier stash building days, I bought fat quarters and added my leftover fabric to the fat quarter container. Now, they just sit there laughing at me. I didn't realize there would be so many scraps from making quilts that I wouldn't need them. One of these days I'm going to make a large squares quilt and use some of them up.
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