Buying fabric on line

I bought online from Hancocks of Paducah, had a Christmas gift sent to my mom last year, and I was very pleased with their quality and service.

YMMV,

Dannielle

Judie > I am really irritated right now with my local TSWLTH, and my not so

Hi Judie,I am "over the pond"but love to buy from the US. No LQS near me!Backforty give me great service and 5bucks a yard. Both are what I call budget shops. Bighorn are good too!

Just like LQSes, some online stores are great, some are awful, and some are in between.

John from the Virginia Quilter is not only a nice guy who posts here, but his online store has always given me great service. (

) I'm sure others will come up with equally good stores -- my brain isn't engaging enough right now to come up with them.

There's only one online store (so far, knock on wood) that I won't buy from again. Without naming names, it's that large one in Kentucky, in a town known for a big quilt show, and shares its name with a chain fabric store. If you order goes well, everything is great. If there's even a teeny problem, the nightmare begins. :(

I've had excellent luck with Hancock's of Paducah, Virginia Quilter, Fabric.com, Fat Quarter Shoppe, Keepsake Quilting, BearPaw Quilting, Quilter's Roundup. I'm sure that I'm leaving some out, lol.

Sherry Starr

I happen to like Fabric.com and they always overcut their yards. My local JAF refused to take fabric back that was not cut straight. I wrote to the company and received a rebate from them.

L>I am really irritated right now with my local TSWLTH, and my not so

I've bought from The Virginia Quilter, Material Pleasure, and Fabric Shack. I've never had a problem with any of them, in fact I've had great service from all. TVQ frequently offers free shipping and is easy to find just what you're looking for as they sort their fabrics by color, theme, manufacturer, etc. Material Pleasure, in first ever dealing with them, sent me a copy of a pattern that they offer a quilt kit in. No charge, love to help so I bought some fabric from them out of guilt ;-) and had great service. Fabric Shack has great fabric at great prices. You just have to dig through the site to find things, but since I love browsing and the price is right, I'm good with that. NAYY with any of the above, just a very satisfied customer.

The Virginia Quilter

Pleasure Shack

My favorite, good quality with good prices and speedy shipping:

Trixie

I ordered thread from that place in Kentucky. They sent me fabric. Ugly fabric. I returned the fabric (at my own expense for postage, mind you). That was 2 or 3 years ago. I still don't have the thread. Just because you've gotten lucky there doesn't mean they won't bite you sooner or later. Polly

"Kathy Applebaum" wrote > There's only one online store (so far, knock on wood) that I won't buy from

BTDT (sound of grinding teeth!)

Used to shop there A LOT and had a great record, but about a year ago the wheels seemed to fall off their cart, and the new web site is SO SLOW!!

There are too many places with good service to offer to be bothered putting up with the hassles.

I will not buy one inch of fabric from anybody who lists their prices by the half-yard. That's a red flag of deception to me. IMHO, of course. Yes, as if you'd believe that. Polly

"Cats" wrote >

I am from KY but no where near "that place" as Polly calls it, and I ordered from them and was very dissatisfied but now I love the VA quilter. No problems from them at all.

It is the store that had my Magnoliafabric that I just had to have. Still don't know for sure what I amgoing to do with it but I love that stuff and I may just sit and lookat it. Actually trying to figure out a pattern I could do with itthat it would look nice with. I would love to make a full size quiltwith it and use it in the guestroom rather than my chocolat as plannednow.

Jacquel>I ordered thread from that place in Kentucky. They sent me fabric. Ugly

I agree. I haven't been to their website recently, but their last catalog listed prices by the full yard. They do have a gorgeous catalog, though I have never ordered fabric from them. I used to order batting, but haven't done that either since my JoAnn's started carrying Hobbs 80/20.

Julia in MN

Speaking of buying fabric online --- I am so disappointed with the online Keepsake Quilting! I love the printed catalog because it's always packed full of great stuff, and gives me so many ideas. I even save them for that reason.

But their website is a sad copy, IMHO.

René

Howdy!

Everything I've found in the Keepsake Quilting catalog I've ordered online. The site isn't as maneuverable as the catalog but the merchandise is all there. Only problem I've ever had w/ KQ was when they didn't include a packing/shipping list when a gift item was included in the shipment, but they fixed that by sending me a receipt/list. (Just because there's one gift item doesn't mean they should omit the entire packing list.) Fast service, well-packed items, and they include laundry instructions.

Other online shops w/ good service:

--esp. helpful when I needed more of a "J.B. palette" fabric;great service

--sent me the exact color of shot cotton when I called to ask,very nice guy on the phone, had the fabric in 2 days --John never advertises here and he doesn't jump in w/ the helpful,"Oh, WE have that!" as some merchants have done. He can count on us topromote V.Q.'s good service and quality products. The only shops I've had any serious problems w/ are Han-of-Pad which has already been bitched about plenty (deservedly) and Quilts & Other Comforts, the one assoc. w/ Qltrs.Newslttr Mag-- never, ever, ever got everything I ordered, always something "off" about the order, color, quantity, etc, and sending me a cheap tote bag w/ their logo on it didn't improve the matter. But Q.O.C. doesn't blame the customer for merchant screw-ups as SOME shops will do. Lots of Good shops out there.

Ragmop/Sandy

Will you people stop already giving out URL's for good online shops? I didn't know about many of the ones listed and I'm sinking fast. Stop, for the love of financial responsibility, just stop....................

Sunny

((whimper, snivel)) I was just thinking the same thing Sunny

lol - I stuck to my fabric diet through Oct so I am entitled to a little browsing now. Guess what I am gonna do tonight since there's nothing on TV worth watching.

Since so many of you all are on fabric diets and they keep posting these on line places to shop why not make a game of it and pay yourself a dollar a day for every day you go without buying fabric, it will add up and then you can go shopping and feel you really earned the money. I don't mean worked for it as in earning wages at a job, I mean you sweated for that dollar, because I have only been into fabric for about 3 months now and it is an addiction. I have had to tell my sisters not to ask me to go to ebay and look at anything, if I hadn't I would have looked like that picture we saw a few weeks ago. Thank God I got that addiction under control and can now go there most of the time without buying anything.

Jacqueline in KY