Finding Good Deals on Fabric

Red Pepper Quilts: The Quilted Castle and a Giveaway!

As part of our Finding Good Deals on Fabric series (click on the 'deals' label in our left sidebar), I wanted to share my awesome find today. I was browsing blogs this morning and saw that The Quilted Castle had some designer fabric for sale at $6/yard. Thanks to Red Pepper Quilts for this info!



I just so happened to be looking for some backing for my mom's washboard quilt and I called her up and had her look online with me to see what she liked. We chose some cute kite string prints from Glimma by Lotta Jansdotter for Windham (pictures from The Quilted Castle):

These will make a great quilt back, and I'm so excited because the 9 yards I needed for the back of my quilt, including shipping, only cost me $59.50! You can't get much better than that.

Check out the sale! There are plenty of designer prints for just $6/yard.

Another one of my favorite spots I found out about a few months ago is Southern Fabric. This company is based in Georgia and it just so happens that two of my brothers live there. One of my brothers does taxes for their company, and the other brother and his wife work in their warehouse. Boy, was I missing out before I learned about this awesome company!

They have all sorts of fun things going on all the time. Daily deals, 2-dollar Tuesdays (selling charm packs for $2), giveaways on Instagram, tons of ideas and inspiration on their Pinterest pages, and just all-around awesome fabric lines.

Go pay Southern Fabric a visit at their website, their blog, or follow them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest! 

Shopping for Fabric

My mom came to visit last week, mostly to kiss her grandkids, but also to go SHOPPING with me! 

I am starting to design some of my own ideas for quilts and other sewing projects, and I shared a quilt design with her about a month ago. She said she loved it so much, she wouldn't mind having one of her own. Being the awesome daughter that I am, I told her I would make it for her for Christmas.

Now she wants it by her birthday, which is in 6 days. (She's joking.... I think.)

We looked online at fabric options for this KING size quilt I'm going to be making her, and she couldn't make up her mind. I designed this quilt to be made with a jelly roll as well as a layer cake, but she couldn't pick just one line of fabric and stay happy with it.

After a few visits to JoAnn Fabric in our mall, we decided we would choose our own coordinating prints. AND, they were having a 30% off sale on their quilting cottons. Never hurts to save money on fabric!

Here is what we came up with:

There were some really cute prints from Cloud9 fabrics in the 30% off section, and we pulled our other choices from JoAnn's fabric lines. Here is a closer look at some of these beauties:

I was telling a friend the other day that quilting can be quite expensive. If you buy designer quilting cottons at full price, you can spend 11-16 dollars a yard, and depending on your size of quilt, those dollars add up into hundreds. We talked about ways to get around this, to shop sales and find people willing to give you extras from their piles of fabric they have lying around. We are going to do a post soon, all about finding deals on fabric, so stay tuned!

The happy moral of this story is, I got all the fabric for my mom's king-size quilt top for $93.03, which was a savings of $37.84.

Now I can keep my eye out for good deals on backing fabric!