When one door closes, another opens, I guess? I gotta admit I did not expect Dollar Tree to step up as a substitute for JoAnn.

And I'm sure that's not exactly what's happening - I'm sure DT does purchasing way in advance and all, and I don't think this is fabric a mill produced for JoAnn and then wasn't able to sell to them or anything. But the timing is good: Dollar Tree is expanding its fabrics from cottons and felts to minky and plush.

Interestingly, I haven't seen these on the website for ship-to-store, and their presence in a given store seems hit-or-miss. But I did encounter a nearly-full box of the plush, so there's a picture of all the colors. It's not the usual "four variations" thing DT does, though I admit I haven't tracked whether they adhere to that in the cottons.

I used the minky in the Sugar Bunny demo and then forgot to mention it when I blogged about it but the peach is it. You can see some faint horizontal banding in the pile trim, and the backing is a little lightweight and thus stretchier than Shannon Cuddle 3, but otherwise it feels nice and works up well. I particularly liked the colors, which are some very boho pastels.

The sizes are smaller than fat quarters, something like 12x18, and of course it isn't available in larger pieces (though one wonders if yards of something might turn up in their "plus" section at some point), but that's ideal for my little charms and great for adding just a little bit of a wider array of colors.

And no, this isn't a sponsored post or anything. I guess I might be up for that, but I'd have to poke into the logs and figure out my traffic metrics and stuff and I'd probably rather not know how many/few people actually read this.