Anyone have a few good names of online fabric stores? I've been underwhelmed with the selection of apparel fabrics at stores within driving distance.

Oy, may I step in with a question?

What country?

I haven't actually ordered from them yet because I have been fortunate enough to be able to get too much fabric(!) in New York and a recent estate sale. But Gorgeous Fabrics here in the US generally gets good reviews, and her blog is great. The prices seem fair and she has frequent sales. Other sites which get good reviews for good prices and service at Pattern Review are Fabric Mart and Emma One Sock.  They specialize in designer close outs.

Gorgeous Fabrics has beautiful fabric, excellent customer service, and reasonable prices, highly recommend them.  Mood Fabrics is good, Fabric.com is hit or miss.  If you have time, order swatches.  Really nothing replaces seeing and feeling the fabric.

I agree on the seeing and touching - ordering online is a bit of a craps shoot. But I order from fabric.com all the time and have rarely been disappointed with the quality. The colors, though, are tough. Several of my orders have been wildly different from the color I thought I was getting. I order my 108" quilt backs online because those just aren't generally available in most fabric stores - even the quilting ones. Plus, they almost always have something on sale or clearance that will do what I want. fatquartershop.com also has a really good selection of cottons, almost all of which are designer/high end. Unfortunately, they have designer/high-end prices to match.

For designer fabrics, in addition to Gorgeous Fabrics, Emma One Sock, and Fabric Mart, there is Apple Annie who I've had good experience with. There's also Sawyer Brook, but they are changing hands, and I don't know how things compare to how they used to be. I have not heard anything bad, and I don't know where they are in the transition, all of which to say they used to be great and probably still are, but I don't have recent experience. 

I don't have a car. I can't drive around to check fabric stores, so I do all my fabric shopping online. In addition to Fabric.com and FabricMartFabrics.com (my favorite place), as mentioned above, I also buy from Joann.com and TrimFabric.com. TrimFabric is in New York City and is a great place for getting basic fabrics.

Thanks for the other suggestions. I had never heard of some of these.

That would be helpful for the fabrics I still buy at the store.

Gorgeous Fabrics is good and her descriptions have been reliable so far.

I love Marcy Tilton fabrics, and Michael Levine (lowpricefabrics.com) has some nice fabric, just stay away from the $5 per yard stuff. Emma One Sock sends free samples, a very nice feature, and I have never been disappointed. 

Hello, Kielocke. I always hate to complain about any retailer, because my experience may not be the experience of others, but I have had a couple major disappointments with Fabric Fashion Club and stopped buying from them altogether. I don't even browse their website. It's as if they don't care about their buyers. To warn of their "risky" nature is a very polite way of saying it.

Totally agree I was being very polite about them.  I just found the TrimFabric.com site last month and am still going through the site.  I tend to browse and save fabrics I'm interested in, rather than immediately buy.

For Chanel style tweeds I highly recommend Linton Tweeds

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