Walmart
02-24-2012, 05:19 AM
#51
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
Posts: 2,795
My Walmart has precuts and bolts. You can't buy a fabric line. Nothing matches. It's just all different fabric that doesn't go together. So you can't buy enough fabric to make a quilt. I've bought a yard of this and that, but I'm always disappointed in the fabric. I know it's like the third run at the factory so it's not the best, but if it's a good price, go for it.
02-24-2012, 05:54 AM
#52
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Independence, MO
Posts: 3,560
Have you mentioned this to the store manager? You can go to walmart.com and tell them how you feel. They can't fix what they don't know about.
02-24-2012, 06:20 AM
#53
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 134
We have a lot of fabric in our WalMart, in Jesup Ga. but there is never anybody working the department to cut your fabric. So I walk out without any. Wonder how long they'll keep the material with this situation. They'll probably say they don't sell any material so why keep it??/
02-24-2012, 06:35 AM
#54
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Maryville, TN
Posts: 2,008
Our closest WalMart has never done away with the fabric on bolts but for a while was doing more precuts and less bolts. Yesterday it looked as if they were reducing precuts and adding bolts. The next closest Walmart has never had fabric and just a teeny tiny little crafts section...not hardly any notions, just beads and jewelry stuff (nothing against that but not really anything I do).
02-24-2012, 07:16 AM
#55
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Lawton, Oklahoma by way of Germany
Posts: 846
I was so happy when WalMart began bringing back fabric to many of its stores making fabric more readily available in areas that may not have a LQS. Although prices have gone up, much of it is more affordable; not everyone can afford quilt shop prices. I put messages on the web-sites of our local WalMarts that brought back fabric, thanking them for doing so, and stating why it was important to many who sew and quilt. Although I continue to purchase much of my fabric from my LQS, not every quilt is an heirloom, and WalMart does carry some nicer cotton fabric that is just right for some projects. I'm happy to have another fabric source! Let's be sure to let WalMart know we appreciate them bringing back fabric to many of their stores! Their help is often spread thin and may have no experience with sewing or quilting, but I thank them too for carrying fabric, and usually find they respond well to a kind word.
02-24-2012, 07:31 AM
#57
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Phoenix AZ
Posts: 346
Ladies I do not get why anyone would buy fabric from walmart or Joanns .I once made place mats and machine appliqued flowers useing Walmart and Joannsfabric as well as quilt store and Hancocks of Paduca.The results were startling.THe quilt store stuff and Hancocks was bright, good color tone ,the tone still showed the design and the others did not at all .They looked terribleTHe web specials bring the price into the same range as what you are paying for lesser quality and of course there are many other companys out there than Hancocks.
02-24-2012, 08:56 AM
#58
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Bosque County, Texas
Posts: 2,709
Ladies I do not get why anyone would buy fabric from walmart or Joanns .I once made place mats and machine appliqued flowers useing Walmart and Joannsfabric as well as quilt store and Hancocks of Paduca.The results were startling.THe quilt store stuff and Hancocks was bright, good color tone ,the tone still showed the design and the others did not at all .They looked terribleTHe web specials bring the price into the same range as what you are paying for lesser quality and of course there are many other companys out there than Hancocks.
You do realize that the QB members are telling you that some WM's have some LQS quality fabric? And that some members have no other fabric store within driving distance?
02-24-2012, 01:00 PM
#59
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: West Milton, Ohio
Posts: 284
Well, first of all girls, I gotta tell you this. I have 2 Wal-marts that still have fabric, with no intention of them going. I also have 2 Wal-marts near that have totally disregarded there fabric, save a few jelly rolls and tons of yarn. I was so upset when they said that the fabric just didn't produce enough money to keep it going. REALLY? I wrote a letter to the company and I e-mailed them.....told them I would be a Meijer shopper for eternity because the fabric was what made me go to Wal-mart from the git-go. I just thought it was such B.S. because they had no intention of getting rid of the fishing dept., the hunting dept, the automobile stupid dept. Really? Well, I can buy makeup anywhere. And if that is all they have to offer me? Watch out. I guarantee, if enough of us make a ruckus.......things will even out. And I think they have. And after venting....let me just say.....My Hubby would so much rather me having aisles of fabric to roam while he does his thing in the automobile stupid aisles...I HATE those aisles. UGHHHHH.
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