Buying fabric cheaply

sunflower76

I second Dunelm and Ikea as I've got material cheaply from both of these. Make sure that you look at the blankets and throws as well as material by the metre as it's sometimes cheaper to buy it this way then cut to size.

Also, there are some bargains to be had from eBay; it depends what you're after.

Speckled_Egg

Wow! The Orinoco store looks great. What a brilliant idea and it's not too far from me.

Thanks mggirl.

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mggirl

Glad it might be of use.
One of my favourite places for a rummage on a Saturday morning - 20p for a good as new hand trowel for the garden, £1 for 2 plastic bins for growing spuds on the patio, 10p for a sunglasses case for my 4 years, plus oodles of scraps for his 'Mr Maker' box for pennies.

I love looking at the gallery to see what Howie's managed acquire and load in the back of his transit.

Have fun !

clk299

Tell you what- if you are ever up in London it may even be worth you popping to Tooting Market. There is a man there who has the best fabric store ever and he has TONS at £1 a metre. We get loads of fabric from there at once, we costume shows a fair bit and if you think that we regularly spend a couple of hundred pounds at a time, you can imagine how much fabric we get at once! He has lovely shiny fabrics with all sequins etc as well, plus good quality satins etc.

Fabricland are good as well and they have a website- I think they deliver but not sure.

LJM

ive found some great bargains on ebay for mine and usually i get up to chesterfield market twice a year and found some good bargains there too

milliemonster

My local Dunelm generally only sells fabric to make curtains with?

SunnyGirl

I've bought 'fat quarters' on my local market (in Lancashire) before now for household makes. They must be available in other places as I've seen books about them in the library. It might also be worth asking the market stallholders what they do with end of roll type stuff themselves - they could be glad to get rid of some of it with any luck. Hope your search proves fruitful.

wogglemaker

mggirl,

I'm in Gloucester and use our resource center all the time. Scout Groups I've been a member of have always been introduced to their delights.

they are a fantastic resource for all sorts of interestening craft things and company donations

dolly_day_dream

I am assuming you have checked out the market at Chelmsford. It is harder for those of us in this area cos there is not the tradition of cheap fabric available like in other areas. I live in Colchester and get some of my fabric from charity shops - reuse duvet covers etc but sometimes I do need to use shops to get what I want. I have found http://www.fabricland.co.uk/index.htm to be cheaper than most of the shops I have around me . You have to ring up with your order and don't be put off by the delivery charges because they don't always charge that amount will always try and use the cheapest method to get it to you. They are really helpful and have a fantastic stock. The one time they were not cheaper was when the Remnant Shop in Colchester had their summer sale and put all of their sale fabric at £1 a metre on the last day! I spent a fortune and am still working my way through it all.

dolly_day_dream

Sorry just re read your comment about Chelmsford market so charity shops or Fabric land are my best suggestions