I'm sure that they have been mentioned already somewhere on here but a big round of applause for
www.fabric.com . I was first alerted to their loveliness by some fabulous black eyelet fabric (broderie anglaise) that
@Manuela got from them - she had spotted that it was the same as some eyelet on Marcy Tilton's site but much cheaper. I ordered 5 yards from them in the summer. It came super quick and no customs charges. And very yummy it is too.
In their recent sale they had packs of 20 fat quarters of Kaffe Fassett fabrics at $25 +pp. Even with the postage ($19.50) a little research convinced me that this was much cheaper than I'd get in the UK even if I did pay customs charges. It works out at the equivalent of $7 a yard. I ordered the first pack on a Friday and it arrived the following Thursday. Having seen how nice this was, I ordered a second pack in a different colour way on Friday at 4.30pm and it arrived today (Monday) at 3pm. I could have saved postage by buying the two packs together but then I would have been much more likely to attract customs charges and I wanted to see what they were like first. They post using UPS and the tracking shows your little package leaving Philadelphia Airport then arriving at East Midlands Airport a few hours later. I must admit it isn't a very green way to buy your fabric as two flights are involved - but their plane from Philadelphia presumably carries other parcels not just my little packet.
I'm afraid they do seem to have stopped selling these particular packs now but the website is definitely worth checking from time to time as there is loads of lovely stuff there.. And, no I haven't joined the Dark Side (well maybe slightly
) - I have some wearable art and other household projects in mind.