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Yard plus 1". I thought that was funny. I mean, I know that 3" extra isn't a ton and I was sad when it was "gone" (although I don't think I've ordered from them since they changed it). But do you really think that one extra inch is going to keep you from being short?
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Mama to my Sweet Pixie, Sophie Elise
I'm very sad to hear that! That was one of the things that I liked about them. Some of their prices are kind of high, especially on quilting cottons, but with the extra 3", it helped.
Joanns around here never gives an extra inch. They measure *exactly*. I always find it annoying how precise they insist on being. When I use to buy whole 75 yd rolls of elastic, they would even insist on opening the ones wrapped in plastic and measuring the whole thing
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Allison
mama to Ara, Simone, and Zarin
Joanns around here never gives an extra inch. They measure *exactly*. I always find it annoying how precise they insist on being. When I use to buy whole 75 yd rolls of elastic, they would even insist on opening the ones wrapped in plastic and measuring the whole thing
That's a bit much, isn't it?!?! The ladies around here would never take the time to do that. I've bought many rolls of elastic, full bolts of tracing paper, etc. and they just take it for face value. There is one particular lady at Hancock's that I love to get ~ she always gives me an extra 3-4 inches and the more she talks the more you get. I think she is probably in such a hurry to get me and my three kids out of there, she's willing to do anything.
It was in Alaska and people would special order a lot of bolts of stuff and we would ship it out to them in the bush. Anyway, they made us unwrap the bolts when they came to measure the fabric and then rewrap it on the bolt! What a pita that was. I'm not talking a bolt or 2 either. I'm talking like someone in one of those little towns out in the bush would order maybe 20 bolts for the whole town or something. And, there's a lot of little towns out there placing orders.
They made us cut exact also. Which, I really couldn't figure out, because once there was like a yard or so left on the bolt, we took it off and threw it in a box under the counter. Then, in our "spare" time, we were supposed to measure those pieces and wrap them as remnants. And, God forbid we wrapped something that was a yard or more as a remnant. We had to cut it in half and then wrap it as 2 pieces. What a waste...
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our JA measures precise too! and if it's a knit I usually have to ask them not to stretch it while they are measureing! ugh! I had one woman spend 10min trying to cut the fabric straight before she would measure it! I wanted to smack her!
I've been being cut at Joann's when a manager randomly came up and remeasured all of my cuts to make sure the employee was precise. If I knew at any time my boss would come check my work like that I'd try hard to be precise too. You can't blame it on the cutters.
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Kori,
Mom to Calvin 8, Nathan 6 & loving wife to Lance since '97
My JA's is precise as well. It drives me nuts because 99.9% of the time the fabric isn't on the bolt evenly and so if I get a 1/2 yard or a yard only 1/2 of that is usable They won't tear the fabric either...I've asked
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Wife to Aaron and mama to Caity and Brennan.
*WARNING* Stupid crap flies out of my fingers on occasion. In case it's aimed your way, DUCK!
the other day i was buying some $1 fabric from walmart and there was 4 inches left on the bolt after the woman had measured out my 3 yards. she started to cut and i said "whoa!" -- at joann's they always ask if you want it half price, so i thought maybe i could buy it as a remnent. but the woman said she was not allowed to do that, she had to cut it off in order to sell it to me as a remnant. it probably would've cost me 20 cents but i found it so annoying that i let her cut it off.
i think i'd be really miffed if the manager came over to measure my cuts at joann's. that sounds so disrespectful of the employee to me. yuck!
Both my Joann's and Walmart are very precise in cutting!!! But at my Hancocks, they are always generous, probably adding an extra 5" or so. I also pick up fabric at my Craft Star occasionally, and they are also generous cutters
When I worked at Hancocks they did random auditing of cuts.... so you had to be sure you were measuring precisely. Apparently some people were giving their friends yards extra as a "generous cut". They ruined it for everyone.
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Stephanie, mom to:
Nicholas 3/22/00
Kendall 9/3/01
Andrew 7/14/03
I'm pretty bummed about the demise of the Phoenix yard, too. I let them know my feelings in the survey they had us do after previewing the new site. It clearly didn't make a difference, though.
__________________ Anne: Army wife & mama to four sweet girls
Both my Joann's and Walmart are very precise in cutting!!! But at my Hancocks, they are always generous, probably adding an extra 5" or so. I also pick up fabric at my Craft Star occasionally, and they are also generous cutters
I've bought many rolls of elastic, full bolts of tracing paper, etc. and they just take it for face value. There is one particular lady at Hancock's that I love to get ~ she always gives me an extra 3-4 inches and the more she talks the more you get. 
They won't tear the fabric either...I've asked 
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