I have ordered from Connecting Threads a few times and am very impressed with their service. It's very convenient for me, here in Canada, to take advantage of their expedited delivery...that means I pay a small % up front for brokerage and duties and the order comes right to me without any other fees to pay. It allows me to know exactly how much I will be paying for my fabrics with no nasty surprises at the post office...and the amount I pay with my order is much less than I would pay at the door!
I love being able to shop on-line for all the gorgeous Connecting Threads collections and find perfectly co-ordinating fabrics in the same line. Even better is their co-ordinating thread. They suggest threads (100% Egyptian cotton) made to match the fabric colours perfectly and that makes it very simple to get a project completed. The prices are great and the quality seems very good.
I'm also participating in one of their quilt-alongs where we are learning techniques for perfect points. It's free to join in and you learn a lot! There is a tutorial lesson with accompanying pdf each week (in this case, for 5 weeks or so) and a comment/question section for each part of the project. I'll share my progress with you in another post.
Now everyone can make mistakes once in a while - it's how you deal with them that matters. When I ordered the fabrics for the quilt-along (beautiful browns and blues) I ended up with a bright fuchsia fat quarter in error. A quick phone call later and the correct fabric was on its way...and I could keep the 'wrong' fabric anyway! Connecting Threads has great fabrics, co-ordinating threads, super prices, excellent service, and fun projects and free patterns. Pretty good combo!
OOh perfect!! I'm off to Connecting Threads ... thank you for posting so much great info!! YOU INSPIRE ME!!! :)
Posted by: STEFFOGAL1 | April 22, 2012 at 12:39 PM