Woo Hoo......I'm still on my fabric buying rebellion and it has now been 17 whole months since I have bought a single piece of fabric!!! Funny though, I don't even look at it online. You can read my other post and thoughts on the matter HERE.
Good news on the fabric front though, cotton prices are now around 67 cents a pound. Looks like we can see lower fabric prices in the near future if these prices hold for this years crop.
Good news on the fabric front though, cotton prices are now around 67 cents a pound. Looks like we can see lower fabric prices in the near future if these prices hold for this years crop.
Mr. Brown Dirt will finish getting all the cotton planted sometime today.....yippee!! The wheat we planted earlier in the year is ready and bountiful and they are harvesting that as well. All the big sprinklers in the fields are running, watering up the maize seeds that were planted last week. A very busy time here on the farm.
Do you know anyone who raises crops or farms???
Do you really think the retail price will come down? That's laughable! Who's getting the cut?! Aargh!!
ReplyDeleteWoo-Hoo for you!!
We can all dream of lower fabric prices, but it's not gonna happen! LOL My husband worked on his uncle's dairy farm for years, and now my son works on one. They had about 400 cows when he started working there, but I believe they have more now.
ReplyDeleteMy brother in law also raises crops. He has over a thousand acres in peanuts, cotton, and peas. The lower cotton prices are not so good for the growers. I know that cotton is an extremely expensive crop to grow!
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree with the others. I don't see prices in fabric falling anytime soon!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in South Dakota. I wasn't raised on a farm but both sets of grandparents lived on them. Also many of my friends were "farm kids" too. I swore as a young woman that I would never marry a farmer or a military man. Ha! Never say never! I love my Army guy so much and we are really happy so I guess the lesson is that you really don't know what you want when you are 16!
I think of you everytime I see cotton in it's pure form, and realize how hard your family works so we can enjoy our beautiful cotton fabrics. Nice to know the price is dropping. And I am on the same mission to not buy fabric, and will keep cheering you on!
ReplyDelete17 months is a really long time not to buy fabric! Congrats on your resolve and yet ability to keep quilting. They grow cotton up in the San Joaquin Valley and I remember seeing all the harvesters out there. Hope the price is good for you all season!
ReplyDeleteNo farmers in my family but there are many in this county--strawberries, citrus, avocados, row crops, corn, berries, lots of celery, flowers, onions, and nursery stock.
Good for you. I haven't bought much this year.
ReplyDeleteHope your crops grow well this year and you get a bumper harvest.
I don't know any one personally that farms just lots that garden.
Why is it we feel the need to make a purchase when we enter a quilt store? I can try on 5 pairs of shoes and go home empty handed! I've limited my fabric shopping a lot, but haven't eliminated it. My friend is a farmer in N central Oregon, dry wheat farming, rocky soil and a lot of praying for snow packs in the winter and rain in the spring! Then when the wheat is ready to harvest, they pray for hot sunny days! Farming, Las Vegas, about the same odds! Thank goodness Mr Brown Dirt and yourself farm for all of us!
ReplyDeleteI applaud your strength! I also doubt the price drop will trickle all the way to the consumer.
ReplyDeleteI am buying more thrift store shirts and less fabric, but haven't eliminated it altogether.
We live on my husband's small family farm (100 acres). Over the years they have raised beef cattle, pigs, corn, alfalfa, chickens, sheep, and goats. Since his Dad passed 5 years ago, DH and his brother (who both have 8 to 5 white collar jobs) rent out the fields and do a little hobby animal raising. We are surrounded by farms, but the city 5 miles away is encroaching on farmland faster than we'd like.
Good for you! Great resolve. I don't buy as much fabric as I used to. I have a pretty big stash and try to work from that. But sometimes I splurge and buy some fabric. I get so tired of working with the same old fabrics that I've had for years. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the price of fabric goes down.
ReplyDeleteAll of my grandparents were farmers, but nobody in the family now. However I live in the country and there's lots of farming here. WA is pretty agricultural outside of the Seattle area. Lots of grain products here (corn, alfalfa etc.) and livestock. Cattle, goats, and horses in this area. Plus the occasional llama, alpaca, ostrich, and lots of chickens. I love it! Oh and lots of trees! Mostly fir and some pine, huge tracts of farmed trees in the foothills and mountains. Logging trucks drive through town all the time. Oh, my BF's daughter is married to a grass farmer in Oregon. They do grass seed actually. So I guess I do know someone that farms!
I appreciate you and your family being farmers! I know it's a hard job, and fewer people are doing it all the time.
My friend and her husband raise wheat. They have 13,000 acres - it boggles my mind to think of the number of times they have to go completely over all that land each season.
ReplyDeleteI always think of you and Mr. Brown Dirt when I buy fabrics - and I'm grateful someone grows cotton for us.
Do you REALLY think fabric prices will go down - or will they stay the same and the fabric manufacturers or the sellers will just make more profit?
Goodness you are good. I've recently had a splurge, but the first one for a very very long time so I'm not really feeling guilty.
ReplyDeleteOur farmer neighbour grows wheat, sunflowers and maize. He has Limousin cattle. At the moment he's in the throes of hay making. Our fields were baled yesterday.
That is an amazing accomplishment. Truly.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on keeping your resolve! It is quite a feat! I could never stay away from fabric for that long! My uncle and his family used to grow cotton for many years, looking at your pictures brings back fond memories of visiting them during holidays! It is lot of hard work!
ReplyDeleteWe used to have cotton fields all around us here in SC - but they have all gone by the wayside, and the cotton fields house businesses now..warehouses, beer distributor, plants, etc...so sad.
ReplyDeleteGood for you! "Unfortunately" I've purchased enough fabric to make up for all of you who haven't purchased any this year.
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