End of Year Quilt Fabric (and more) Sales

Has your wallet recovered from the holidays? If so, you may want to check out some of these online quilt shop year-end sales! In most cases, these sales end 12/31/08 and have limited supplies.

Cottage Quilts is having a Year End sale -- some great buys on books and patterns, plus take an ADDITIONAL 30% off fabrics found in the $3.99 Clearance Fabrics and Back Door Bargains. You must use the code HOLIDAY BLOCKBUSTER in the SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS box (not the Coupon Box!) at check-out. Discounts are figured MANUALLY so you will not see the final price until they send you confirmation.
Find the sale here: http://tinyurl.com/8bxrf3

THREAD SALE - This is an amazing sale, even if the final total sounds very expensive. But I thought I'd post it just in case there are some serious thread /embroidery machine people in the group. Heart of Dixie Quilt Shop is having a huge sale on "Madeira Rayon 220 yd/200 m Thread Treasure Chest" - which includes 194 spools of thread ($657.50 value), an 82 design Embroidery Design CD ($214 value), a wooden 3-drawer chest to hold the thread ($160 value), Color Cards & Conversion Chart ($10 value) and a combo Thread Cutter/Needle Threader ($3 value) -- for $298.00. Total value is $1044.50 -- you save $746.50!
You can find it here:
http://tinyurl.com/8o7mfk

Quilters Roundup (http://www.quiltersroundup.com) is also having an end of year sale:
1 yrd minimum on 50% off items. Christmas Prints are up to 50% OFF. 40% OFF - Flannels, Western Prints, Oriental Prints, P&B Textiles, RJR Fabrics, Benartex, All Fleece. 2007 Flower of the Month Prints are 50% OFF & 2008 Prints are 30% off. Winter Color Palette colors of Blue, Cream & White are 40% off. Sale prices valid through 01/06/09. Orders of 60+ will receive an additional 5% off. Orders of 120+ will receive an additional 10% off. Orders of 250+ will receive an additional 15% off.

The Thrifty Needle is having an end of year blow-out sale - you can find items here: http://tinyurl.com/954374 (Some cute quilt-themed sticky notes!) There are 30 pages of sale items!

The Fat Quarter Shop (quite possibly the most popular quilt fabric web site on the web?) is having a 50% off sale on many fabrics:
http://tinyurl.com/77r4yz

Joann's has several fabrics that you might be able to use as either background or backing fabric -- for $1.74 a yard!
http://tinyurl.com/86wfq9

The Virginia Quilter is having a "Super Closeout Sale" with fabric at $3 and $4 a yard:
http://tinyurl.com/784k2n

Books for $4, fabric for $3.80 a yard, patterns for $4.77 -- one of my personal favorite web sites - Aunt Bea's Sewing Basket - is having a huge sale -- 20% discount taken at checkout. 21 pages of sale items! http://tinyurl.com/8uhqgv

FabricShack.com continues to add items into their $1.99/yd and $2.99/yd sale bins! http://tinyurl.com/ysu53b

And if these sales aren't enough -- check out the LIST OF SHOPS that are participating in the FabShopHop's 5-Day Inventory Blow Out Sales: http://www.fabshophop.com/BlowOutSale.asp

A WORD TO THE WISE - If you order from any of these shops, calculate your own total BEFORE submitting your order, and check that total when you receive your email confirmation. Three times I have had a problem with the totals not being figured correctly when the discount is applied AFTER ordering. In all cases, the total was applied correctly when I contacted them, but if I hadn't noticed and brought it to their attention, I wouldn't have gotten the correct discount.