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[holytoastr]

Has anyone ever used Cheep Trims before? Are they any good?

I need an insane amount of lace for my halloween costume and it would drive me broke if I bought that in a regular fabric store.

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[amandanoelle82.livejournal.com]

Also check prices through Fabric.com. And if you click through their store through Ebates, you get coupons and 5 percent cash back.

[skwerlie.livejournal.com]

Hm. A lot of people on the egl comm buy through cheeptrims, it can be a good idea if you really will use the huge putups. Some people have said that the trims and such they sell are of lower quality and warn that, for example, a 30 yard putup may come in smaller pieces like 8, 8, 8, 6 yards or something similar. Usually this won't really affect your sewing though. I probably should keep shushed about this... but the fabric store I used to work at would actually order from cheeptrims and resell (I recognized many many items from the website as stuff we sold instore). It wasn't THE highest quality lace you could buy, but when it came time to choose the $10/yard lace from some expensive lace factory versus the $4/yard lace from cheeptrims (which would be even cheaper if you bought it direct from them!) then you sort of think... well, it doesn't really need to be the 10000% best ever, does it? It's still probably as nice as most lace you'd buy at a non-specialist sewing shop that focuses more on basic fabrics and notions than on huge variety of fancy lace.

You do have to get the minimum order, and shipping gets added on top, so it can be a bit more expensive than you realize, but if you only buy things you know you will use it's not bad. There's also like 1 million pages of appliques, buttons, ribbon, snap tape, and all sorts of various useful stuff if you don't need $65 of lace.

[holytoastr.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize there was a minimum order. Good to know.

Do you know of any other places to buy a lot of lace for cheap?

[skwerlie.livejournal.com]

Here's one I got linked to: http://www.such-a-deal.com/ but it has a minimum order as well ($50, according to the order info page you can order less than the minimum and pay a $10 fee), and I don't really know much about it. I'm sure there are other sites as well but I can't think of any more off the top of my head. Some wholesale sites require you to be a business as well.

I don't know what kind of lace you're after but if (probably very crappy) white raschel would do fine this is probably the cheapest you will find: http://www.voguefabricsstore.com/store/catalog/Wholesale-Trims-100-yds-BRScalloped-Edged-Raschel-Lace-p-1096.html

Of course at $7 for 100 yards it must be truly terrible quality but hey... cheap as. XD