pls help--need good source for discount on malden mills fleece for more baby blankets :-)

OK--more baby blankets on the way :-) :-) :-)
after making 16 blankies to donate, i thought i'd try to make a dozen
or so to sell to family and friends...
i need 8 yards of white and 8 yards of baby blue malden mills
microfleece--without paying $11/yd at the malden mills retail store...
i found some pink at fabric.com--great deal, except it was flawed BIG
TIME and they don't have anymore..

anyone have any ideas?
thx!!!

pls help--need good source for discount on malden mills fleece for more
baby blankets :-)


more baby blankets on the waysnip
i need 8 yards of white and 8 yards of baby blue malden mills
microfleece--without paying $11/yd at the malden mills retail store... i
found some pink at fabric.com--great deal, except it was flawed BIG TIME
and they don't have anymore..
anyone have any ideas?
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I am not sure if this will fill your needs, (it may be a resource for
huge orders only), but,
for bulk projects like this, and the charity project you did, check out
www.fabrics.net:
an info/resource/referral network. Lots of good info, but look for
'Wholesale Fabric Requests: Discussion, special offers, and new contacts
access: resource for networking with wholesalers, mills, and mfgs.
You can fill out a 'fabric wanted' request, and fabrics.net has an
online 'retail store', with price breaks on quantity or rolls.
Also check;
fashionfabricsonline
fashionfabricsclub.com
And:
sewbaby.com had fleece the last time I checked.
cloth4less.net (an online portal to the LA. fabric district. Wholesale
bolts or fabric by yd. Free shipping in US; all this info is from last
time I logged on in 2002. At that time, they had some great close-out
deals.
HTH
Cea

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OK--more baby blankets on the way :-) :-) :-)
after making 16 blankies to donate, i thought i'd try to make a dozen
or so to sell to family and friends...
i need 8 yards of white and 8 yards of baby blue malden mills
microfleece--without paying $11/yd at the malden mills retail store...
i found some pink at fabric.com--great deal, except it was flawed BIG
TIME and they don't have anymore..

anyone have any ideas?
thx!!!

If you are going to sell them, why not get a business liscense so that you
have the ability to buy wholesale? thenyou can buy exactly what you need at
wholesale prices... if you are reselling.

Penny S

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OK--more baby blankets on the way :-) :-) :-)
after making 16 blankies to donate, i thought i'd try to make a dozen
or so to sell to family and friends...
i need 8 yards of white and 8 yards of baby blue malden mills
microfleece--without paying $11/yd at the malden mills retail store...
i found some pink at fabric.com--great deal, except it was flawed BIG
TIME and they don't have anymore..

anyone have any ideas?
thx!!!


If you live near the Malden Mills store (I wasn't sure from your reference
to the retail store if you meant online or the actual store), they are
having a remnant sale November 22. It's one day only from 9am to 3pm, in
the building behind the store in Lawrence, Ma. $3.50/lb for solids and
$5.50/lb for prints. A good deal if you do happen to be in the vicinity.

-j
--
The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe. --Lawrence Kutner

If the fleece you bought from fabric.com was flawed "big time", send them an
email and they will send you a label for return shipment and refund your
money. The pink fleece I got from them is lovely. They are not perfect, of
course, but I find lots of bargains there. Not affiliated - but would be
happy to accept payoffs if they'd like to send any for my own Linus
projects. Polly

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OK--more baby blankets on the way :-) :-) :-)
after making 16 blankies to donate, i thought i'd try to make a dozen
or so to sell to family and friends...
i need 8 yards of white and 8 yards of baby blue malden mills
microfleece--without paying $11/yd at the malden mills retail store...
i found some pink at fabric.com--great deal, except it was flawed BIG
TIME and they don't have anymore..

anyone have any ideas?
thx!!!


If you live near the Malden Mills store (I wasn't sure from your reference
to the retail store if you meant online or the actual store), they are
having a remnant sale November 22. It's one day only from 9am to 3pm, in
the building behind the store in Lawrence, Ma. $3.50/lb for solids and
$5.50/lb for prints. A good deal if you do happen to be in the vicinity.

-j
--
The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe. --Lawrence
Kutner

I run a Malden Mills co-op from time to time (this isn't spam, I promise!),
and from my experience, the flawed fleece is really common. Fabric.com buys
MM seconds (a lot of people/places do), but even the first quality stuff has
flaws. I had emailed about a roll I received that had runs all the way
across the width of the fabric in four places, in the last ten yards of the
fabric, making that a ten yard loss for me. But the email I got in response
from MM was that they judge first quality as having a certain percentage of
"good" inches. So, technically, the roll only had about 4" of flaw (on a
30+yd roll), and was sold as firsts. They refunded my change, because I
made a stink (*I* was still out 10 yds, because I couldn't cut around the
flaws), but did take the time to explain their method to me.

To find micro cheap, search the Yahoo Groups for co-ops. fleece co-ops,
diaper co-ops, fabric co-ops, cloth diaper supplies, etc. I'm in the cloth
diaper biz, and MM is *the* fabric, so it is constantly being co-oped for
around $3-6 (for micro; 300wt and windpro usually run $6-12).

Hope this helps!) Email me if you don't find what you are looking for,
and I will ask around my *connections* ;o)


--
Kyla @Hippobottomus.com
http://www.Hippobottomus.com


OK--more baby blankets on the way :-) :-) :-)
after making 16 blankies to donate, i thought i'd try to make a dozen
or so to sell to family and friends...
i need 8 yards of white and 8 yards of baby blue malden mills
microfleece--without paying $11/yd at the malden mills retail store...
i found some pink at fabric.com--great deal, except it was flawed BIG
TIME and they don't have anymore..

anyone have any ideas?
thx!!!