With me it is all about color or about something that really speaks to me. I will pay the premium price for it.
I watch for sales and stock up when I find them in my colors or favorite themes. And I usually end up selling it on eBay when I can't find a use for it. (Or here) I buy online when it is a fabric that I have seen in a shop so I know what the colors really are. I do this a lot for charm packs. If it is something I am unfamiliar with, I hesitate to buy it because I have made past purchases that were not what I expected when i received them. |
Originally Posted by litacats
Originally Posted by lindyline
Wow, do you really pay so little for fabric?
I have one shop near me that is $9 to $12 per metre(39"). It's a little old fashioned fabric shop. All the LQS charge $24 to $30 per metre. I thinnk it's time for a move. |
Originally Posted by WilliP
Originally Posted by litacats
Originally Posted by lindyline
Wow, do you really pay so little for fabric?
I have one shop near me that is $9 to $12 per metre(39"). It's a little old fashioned fabric shop. All the LQS charge $24 to $30 per metre. I thinnk it's time for a move. So, if the import duty has come down, and even allowing for shipping, we paying at least double per metre what you are paying in the US. Someone is making an awful lot of money from us. And I dont think its the LQS. Just for interests sake, what do you pay for a single edition of Australian Patchwork and Quilting? |
Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
Just today I was looking at some of the new ones coming out by Robert Kaufman - they're Patrick Lose designs - and they're going to cost, on the wholesale level, about 75 cents more per yard than other companies' basic blenders.
Do you think the price difference is warranted? Are there certain basics and blenders that you think are worth paying more for? Which ones? How much more? |
Same with me.
Originally Posted by Linda B
This isn't something I've really given much thought to, but it does seem that blenders, solids, and near solids should cost a little less. I would think they would be cheaper to produce due to less design time, ink changes -- whatever. A dollar - a dollar and a half less than more patterned fabric seems reasonable to me.
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Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
The beauty of any fabric, of course, likes in how it looks in the finished quilt.
And there have been many discussions on the differences in quality between quilt-shop fabrics and chain-store fabrics. But, of the quilt-shop fabrics, when you're talking "basics" or blenders... fabrics that you probably bought because they were just the right color... are there certain lines that you think are worth more? Let me explain where I'm going with this. Pretty much every fabric company has a line of basics/blenders. And some companies give you a little bit of a quantity discount, and some don't. All the prices have been inching up (well, ok, more than inching in some cases!). Just today I was looking at some of the new ones coming out by Robert Kaufman - they're Patrick Lose designs - and they're going to cost, on the wholesale level, about 75 cents more per yard than other companies' basic blenders. Do you think the price difference is warranted? Are there certain basics and blenders that you think are worth paying more for? Which ones? How much more? #1 If the line is from a well known quilter and thay want more money from the company that is repping them. #2 The thead count is higher. #3 How many cooridents are in the group. I worked in Textiles and there are many factors just to mention a few. It coast about 1.25 per yd to print the fabric. but to develop the line could run from 3,000 to 6,000. After the line is printed it has to be shipped. This could be from India, China, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonisia. Notice not in AMERICA. The shipping coast has to be figured in. When you see all thoes huge cargo ships with thoes huge containers on them.. well some of them are filled with fabric. and that coast about 5,ooo per container or even more. Then the fabric has to go to a wearhouse to be sourted and rolled onto bolts and shipped to store's. now mors coast is added. The store pays about 3.50 to 4.oo a yrd. we pay 9.00 and up. Batiks coast more because the printing is different. They are dyed and thats a whole different process. I hope this answers some of youe questions. |
I go and get the colour/pattern I want and think about the price after. I just try and go when there are sales on.
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Originally Posted by ckcowl
so i guess it really comes down to knowing your regular customers...especially about designer fab's like the patrick lose, those fabrics have very identifiable characteristics (like Kaffe Fasset fabrics) some like them and some do not. those who love them will buy them, those who don't find them to be (all-that) will not. so knowing your customer base is important. do your regular return customers like the types of subject matter/ fabrics lines from patrick lose? if they do, they will pay the increase. if they are more into traditional over novelty they probably will not. it is all relative/ and very regional. some designers do very well in some areas and do not do well in others. some areas can handle increases, some can not. personally...i buy what i need/sparks me...i do look at the price; if i think it is too high or i think i can find it else where for less and i do not need it right away i wait and look else where but if i need it today, i buy it, and if it is unique, haven't seen it elsewhere i buy it. price matters but everything goes up, nothing we can do about it. i used to complain about having to pay a whole dollar for fabric, when i was in 4-H a hundred years ago...now i pay $10 for the same fabrics...
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I order on line from fabric.com they have good fabric for a low price of $5 or less. Also, some more expensive, all good fabric. I have never been disapointed.
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Aaaah yes....when I was in the "land down under" I was flabbergasted at the price of quilting fabric. I bought some, of course, the Aussie looking patterns, but I couldn't imagine anyone affording to buy on a regular basis. Must be why I didn't run across very many quilters either.
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