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Thanks but its very easy to shop via the internet, most American internetshops ship worldwide. I'm use to shop via internet, I buy books and other things there, American shops are verry helpful and most of the time verry fast. Custom fees kick in over 40 euro Including P&P, that's about 50 dollars. I always try to stay under that amount:))

This weekend I'm gonna treat myself and buy some of the little packs, I will write here how long that it took, the last time (a book) was faster dan a book I bought in an dutch internet bookstore:)))

Most of the fabric in my FQS is £9 a metre (metre = about 39 inches), so that is $16.8 dollars approx.

Prices are high over here in Australia too.

Most LQS (near me) prices are about $25 per metre (about $22-23 per yard) and upwards. If you shop around or go to somewhere like Spotlight (similar to Joann's?) you can get by at maybe $18 for reasonable quality fabrics. When the exchange rate hit 54cents our prices went through the roof! Unfortunately by the time the rates rose again (now about

Fortunately customs doesn't kick in here until you hit about $200AUS. But what you avoid in customs you more than pay for in postage. Our shipping costs are pretty high

Japanese fabrics are even dearer and last time I checked some Liberty prints were over $40 in Sydney and Melbourne. And the "better" Australian manufactured fabrics are probably averaging just a little higher than the imports from the States because we simply do not have the market size here to produce on the scale the major US manufacturers use. That doesn't mean you can't get good fabric at a reasonable price. But if you want to walk in and choose from a full range those are the prices you can expect to pay from a LQS - if you can find one that will carry a full range of a particular fabric line.

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Karen, I know I want it for that reason but what am I going to do with it?

Here's a the teapot to my dishes that I have. I think this is the prettiest pattern this company has ever made. But they retired it just as I got interested in it. Thank God a best friend of mine sells for this company and was able to get me most all of the set, or should I say as much as I want of it.

Jacquel>Yes the magnolia fabrics are very nice. Why do you want it? Well...just to

too true - for the better stuff one pays more!

I too won't go into car fuel prices - your heart has suffered enough by hearing the fabric prices LOL

Why not make some placemats and table runner to use with your Magnolia dishes?

Maureen

Could you use it to make napkins, place mats, table runner, table quilt, or pot holders? Maybe you could even use it in another room. Maybe make a quilt to lay over the back of the couch or make some quilted pillows, or fabric bowls?

Karen

I asked my LQS why the prices for the British fabric was as high as the US, thinking that one was imported and one not, and I was told that the British ones were designed here, but made somewhere in Asia, so there was import duty anyway.

That's an excellent idea. Thank you very much, now I will have to find a pattern that will work with them. Oh Thank you so much!

Jacqueline