On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:17:23 -0400, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 7/24/2015 9:18 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>> "S Viemeister" > wrote
>>> On 7/24/2015 4:04 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>> "S Viemeister" > wrote
>>>>> I bought a length of cotton fabric printed with a potato design, at a
>>>>> quilting shop and made a couple of drawstring bags for storage.
>>>>> I did the same with an onion-patterned fabric.
>>>> Where is the quilting shop?
>>> Far, far, away.
>>> It was bought during one of the Skittish Quilters get-togethers - this
>>> one was in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
>>
>> Ahh you man on t'other side
>>
>Yes. Quilting fabrics in the UK are ridiculously expensive. That seems
>to be true in Australia, too - four of our group were Aussies, and they
>went crazy in the fabric shops! Even adding on the cost of shipping
>everything back, the stuff cost a fraction of what they would have paid
>back home.

The Super Walmarts here have a huge millinery section, bolts and bolts
of fabrics and not expensive. Every Wednesday the local quilters meet
at the library, Fridays (today) is the knitters meeting. Most attend
both to share/swap supplies, and plan trips to millinery & knitting
emporiums. NYC is probably the best place on the planet to buy
milliner's supplies; fabrics, thread, needles, findings of all kinds,
and huge stores with nothing but buttons, amazing buttons, stores with
nothing but zippers of every kind imaginable, and for a very
reasonable cost they will make the installation while you wait.
http://www.walmart.com/search/?query...s%20qu ilting