Quilters’ Frustrations With Discontinued Fabrics
Have you ever purchased a fabric that’s perfect for your project(s), then found you didn’t have enough? Or you wanted more for a similar project? However, when you went to purchase more fabric, the store was out and couldn’t get any more.
That design had been discontinued!
*I discovered this when I was making appliqued quilted vests for children. A store would order a number of vests, then later want more of a specific design. If I didn’t have enough fabric, I’d order more, often finding it had been discontinued in a relatively short time. A customer might purchase a vest from me, then want more just like it. I learned to say I’d have that fabric design or “similar.”
*A quilt kit producer mentioned this problem recently and said it was so frustrating when customers and stores wanted more kits just like the first ones they had purchased. Even when he’d purchased fabric and the next week wanted more, he often was informed the supplier was out and the manufacturer wasn’t making more.
Tips for working around this problem, even if you can’t solve it completely (i.e…get more of the same fabric):
*Try to determine right away if you’ll have enough
*Buy a little extra. (You can always use the leftover in some future project.)
*If the store is part of a chain, see if they’ll check with another store for “your” fabric.
*Refrain from advertising that you’ll have that exact fabic in a kit, future quilt, etc. You’ll have that fabric or “similar.”
*Learn to improvise.
*Smile a lot.
Have you run into the frustration of running out of fabric for a project? How did you solve it?
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