The biggest fabric store in the WORLD!
Fabric Depot in Portland advertises itself as the biggest fabric store in the world. I got a chance to go there while in Portland helping my sister with an upholstery project for their new home. We went on the pretense to get some of those WONDER CLIPS (they worked great on heavy upholstery fabric that no pin would go through). When I walked in the door, I thought my heart was going to race out of my chest! They have sooooo much fabric, and as far as I can see, every type of fabric you can imagine. They have dance fabric, bridal fabric, garment fabric, home dec fabric, and of course a HUGE selection of quilt fabrics. For every line of jelly roll that we see on the web, they have the entire collection of yardage to go with it. They have the entire Jinny Beyer palette, and a beautiful quilt made from palette fabrics displayed in their store. I've never seen so many Bali Batiks, I'll bet there was a rack of batiks in every color, at least 50 on each rack. Where do you start?
I got my Wonder clips, a ruler for our projects, a pin catcher (magnetic), and then found in the remnant rack the EXACT 108" fabric I had used for my sister's quilt and pillows! And the exact yardage I had purchased for it, so now I can make more like it! And the best was it was half off! My sis found her bolster pillow fabric, plus the notions to finish the bolsters. I found a couple of wonderful jelly rolls, and they were running a discount on that day, so I got 20% off. (prices still aren't as good as MSQC!) We bought some pillow forms, and thread. We could have spent the entire day and much more money, but we were on a time limit to finish the project we were purchasing materials for! Had to get back to the sewing machine!
So, I'm not going to abandon MSQC for my supplies, but you should check out this website. www.fabricdepot.com it is something to see and experience. They do web orders, so if you can't find it anywhere else, you might try here.
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Ok, gotta go back to Portland next month now!
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I've ordered from Fabric Depot a few times, when they had something special that I needed. I got my Freedom Fabric from them last year. I don't order from them that often because you pay shipping on everything, no $50.00 free shipping. And it seems that shipping costs add up fast. I do like looking at their site though and would love to see the store one day.
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Must be bigger than Minnesota Fabrics . . . been there, done that, got the T-shirt. I don't care what anyone says, M*QC is THE BEST!!!!!! (Wish I could go to Portland . . . )
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Sandy Navas
Must be bigger than Minnesota Fabrics . . . been there, done that, got the T-shirt. I don't care what anyone says, M*QC is THE BEST!!!!!! (Wish I could go to Portland . . . )
Well, MSQC is the world leader for precuts! So we won't be abandoning them anytime soon!
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Well friends i just want to say you that i think this type f stores have no need to display their shop's fabric in front of the shop because they are already known as a big and high quality fabric stores in the world and have a good will in the market and also provide you the best quality fabric so i think this is not necessary to display in front of shop...
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I looked at the Fabric Depot site, and it is full of beautiful fabrics. I was looking at their border prints to make kaleidoscope blocks. I saw this one quilt pattern there. It is for advanced quilters. I think it is beautiful, but doubt I would ever attempt something like that.
http://www.rjrfabrics.com/patterns/d...n.cfm?psID=475
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It's on my list the next time I go to Portland.
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Jean, jean i know what you mean!!! My daughter lives in Portland and i just happen to see the sign from the street. Would be so great to live by such a store. Did you go to the back where they had all the sale bolts? i probably spent 2 hours in there. Good thing hubs & son went to the sports store. DD was working so I had time to myself. I loved their selection of 108 " fabric. The back of my zebra finch quilt is from FD. Glad you enjoyed it too:icon_woohoo:
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Cellomom
Jean, jean i know what you mean!!! My daughter lives in Portland and i just happen to see the sign from the street. Would be so great to live by such a store. Did you go to the back where they had all the sale bolts? i probably spent 2 hours in there. Good thing hubs & son went to the sports store. DD was working so I had time to myself. I loved their selection of 108 " fabric. The back of my zebra finch quilt is from FD. Glad you enjoyed it too:icon_woohoo:
I purposely stayed out of that back room. Too dangerous!
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Sandy Navas
Must be bigger than Minnesota Fabrics . . . been there, done that, got the T-shirt. I don't care what anyone says, M*QC is THE BEST!!!!!! (Wish I could go to Portland . . . )
Does Minnesota Fabrics even exist anymore? Me too-been there,done that but no t-shirt - used to live there.
