Same here. I do love buying fabric though. Sigh.....

Joanns fabrics in Denton TX. yesterday----16.99to 19.99. These were not on sale.

OMG! I'm afraid I'd have to think long and hard before I'd pay 16.99 to 19.99 for batiks from JoAnns. 90% of the batiks at my JoAnns is cheap looking and doesn't wash up nice.

yes

There seems to be a lot of confusion about this, but Connecting Threads does not have fabrics that are made in the USA, nor are they advertising even that their fabrics are made from cotton that is grown in the USA (though they did advertise that a year or so ago).

They only mention international manufacturing partners now:
http://www.connectingthreads.com/cfh...4&CSItemID=204

As far as I know, there are NO fabrics that are made in the USA anymore, and only a few places that still print fabric in the USA (Santee being one of them). JoAnn fabrics does carry fabrics that are printed by Santee.

Thousandsofbolts.com has some, and connecting threads, that's where I get most of mine, although if someone else is havng a good sale, I'll go there. Batik's Plus have Hoffman batik's and I don't think they are even that high.

Hi, cjomomma,

I only began quilting a year ago. From the very start I fell in love with batiks. For my quilts,I use only batiks, solids, and TOTs.

There are on-line sources for batiks. My favorite is Seawatch Fabrics, which has the most btkis I've seen in one place. They're priced at $8.99/yard, and when I say beautiful, thy're beautiful.

I get a few batiks from a local shop tht has a wide selection. Theirs are priced at $10. I'll not pay more than that, not when I have options.

We have a quilt shop up here in the Yukon. Conveniently enough within walking distance of my work.

Batiks are the same price as cottons by the metre... $18.99.

I love making quilts with batiks.

Yes, when JoAnnes still carried a large stock of batiks, the last ones I bought from them were $12.99 a yd. and I decided never again. Went to a quilt shop in VA with my daughter and they had a selection that had any and every combination you could ever want and it was mostly 9.97yd. Made me slightly sick to think what I had paid so much for. Now, JoAnnes has only a few bolts of it and not very good quality either, more like painted cheesecloth.

Sorry.

Thank heavens for our stashes,with the crazy weather all over the country where will fabric prices stop. Cotton crop is not good again this year. Gas prices keep going up with the fabric and groceries,time to use up the stash.

I think Connecting Threads Batik's are $6.99 a yard. love JoAnn :thumbup:

I remember when we did think that Batik's plus and Sew batiks was considered HIGH..not any more...though I do shop around a lot more closely these days...I try to avoid, Moda, Timeless treasures and Tongas...sorta of flimsy really....

Dakota Cabin Quilts has very resonable prices for their batiks.

If you ever buy batiks in Canada it will stop you in your tracks. $12. and up, up, up.

Sue's Sew EZ has some very nice batiks, reasonably priced:

http://www.sewezdesigns.com/Batik_Fabrics.html

Our LQS batiks run around $12.00/yd.

Please tell us what on earth you made from fabric priced at $89.95 a yard? I could never pay that price for fabric. I know I wouold have a major heart attack just thinking of cutting into any fabric with that price sticker. I would love to see a pic of what you made.

Connectingthreads.com has them for under $5. Marshals Drygoods also has some at reasonable prices.

Yes, I have seen batiks at 12.99/yd in several places.

Connecting Threads sells them for 6.99 or less, and I like their quality just fine. I won't ever be spending 12.99....I just can't afford that.

Any where in the U K , lol. Some of our fabrics are £14`s a yard Dont lol.I am finding it hard to buy on impulse as I once did . I now have to think very carefully before shopping. Oh well I have quite a small stash to keep me going for a while.moan moan moan , sorry.

Greetings CJ, the LQS that I work in has a very "LG" selection of Batiks, Bali pops, Tonga Treats etc. They are very expensive. The fabric starts at about $15 and goes up to $18.50, The Bali Pops are $54.50, the Tonga Treats are $38.00, and I tell you, they don't sit there very long. Women come in and buy 3 Bali Pops, and 3 yds of backgroung for a quilt top and think nothing of it. Some quilters are a little more thrifty (like myself) and don't spend as much. The last quilt top I did, I bought one Bali Pop, 2.5 mts of background batik, and 1.5 mts of border batik, and I spent $100. That is the most I have ever spent on a quilt top. Auntie B in Canada.

Marshall's in Batesville, AR had blenders for $3.99/yd for 45" a few weeks ago. The 108" blenders were more. Can't recall how much the batik's were, but they were very reasonable: www.marshalldrygoods.com

My local LQS (the same one that had the batiks priced as high as $18.99) just ran a sale on batiks for 20% off so I went to check it out and I must confess that I bought enough to make a king sized quilt out. I wasn't going to but a friend informed me that cotton prices were again increasing by 10% in the next few months. I had to do it. But, this may be the last batik quilt I make until the sale comes around again.