A question for you crafty lot, where do you get your fat quarters from?

[Wotzupnow]

Where do you get all your lovely cotton fabrics from?
Do you buy off the internet?

[nosey emoticon]

scrap shop

From local shop in Anglesey (although always feel bad about buying material that has been deliberately cut up)

is that scrapshopsRus.co.uk?

[novice look]

why are they called fat quarters?

I saw these in hobbycraft and wasn't sure what they were for (I'm a knitter by hobby, me)

fat quarter

only just found out myself!

From the quilting shop in Linlithgow, and also some of the fabric shops in Edinburgh have a quilting/craft section with fat quarters. Even if you don't get the actual quarters, you can get nice craft fabric from a lot of places including John Lewis (my home from home ).

Oh....that clarifies things

but curiosity satisfied

I buy from t'internet mostly.

japanese ones

more japanese

quite expensive here, but nice

in Australia, but very good, and very cheap

and quite a cheap one

I've bought from all of those places (the last 3 are ebay stores)

HTH!

Thank you gingermnkey - I can't find anywhere locally for dress fabrics and cottons.

hobby craft do them and i had no idea what they were either until i looked ta that link. Still not really any the wiser but a little nearer to knowing!

wotzupnow, me neither, not for anything that is nice anyway. Or you have to buy everything by the metre and sometimes you just don't need that much.
When you go shopping on ebay (it is probably the best place to go TBH) Michael Miller, Robert Kaufman, Alexander Henry, Amy Butler, Kaffe Fassett are all American designers that make nice weight fabrics, that are good quality and not too expensive and are all over ebay. The japanese ones are often very lightweight, or linen mix that you might not like to work with as much as a regular cotton, but they do have some gorgeous prints that you just won't find anywhere else.

Hi I'm new, I've had some nice stuff from an ebay shop called the vintage fabric market, the seller is listed as colin.john (think he sounds like a hairdresser {grin})has some lovely stuff and pretty cheap too !!

Hello monkey!

wtf???? are fat quarters

they sell them in boyes lol oop north

cooeeeee gingermonkey you don't miss a trick

They've got some lovely fabrics here

www.africanfabric.co.uk/Fabrics.htm