Links for where to buy fabrics on-line (with UK delivery in mind)

A sewing friend and I recently did a lot of research on where to buy fabrics suitable for baby clothes. Many now are only on-line, but where they have a shop, I've mentioned it. So I thought I might as well share the fruits of our labours. Delivery shown is for UK mainland. I will keep this as up to date in terms of web links as I can - already two have been removed and three added in the space of a couple of months. So my apologies if the links don't all work. And by the way - I take no responsibility for prices or postage having increased since I did my research! Next update: 20th July 2020.

Group 1

These are ones I discovered when hunting specifically for jersey prints for kids - most have other stuff as well. Prices shown are typical prices shown as at December 2019 - there may be cheaper and more expensive fabrics available. Note that jerseys are often sold in wider widths than woven fabrics - I haven't taken that into account in the prices I've given - these are simply as per the web sites. (Check the other list below as well, as some do knits - but not specifically for children.)

My apologies - I've no idea why some of the text has turned to blue - I've repeatedly tried to correct it. It looks Black when I am in edit mode!

1st for Fabrics
£9-£19 a metre, delivery £4.95 up to £50 spend, as above (no specific section for children's fabrics); shop in Newcastle
bobbins and buttons 
£4.50 - £8 per half metre, postage flat rate of £3.75. They have a few children's things in their jersey section. On-line sales only but they do sewing classes in Leicester, and also sell their own patterns.
Caboodle fabrics
From about £6.50 per half metre, more for patterns. a wide choice of patterned knits suitable for children. But also have corduroys and many other fabrics. Second class Royal Mail postage starting at £2.50. May be some discounts via the Facebook page.
Elzah Fabrics
Patterned jerseys from £15 a metre, and French terry, lots of cotton stuff too. jerseys, £1.50 min postage. Often have a choice of sale items too.
Fabrics Galore
£6.50 per half metre, delivery £3.50 and goes up with volume; shop in Battersea, London
Fabworks
£5-£8 a metre, delivery £4.99 up to £70 spend, bit fiddly to find what you want, as there's no specific section for children's fabrics; shop in Dewsbury
Girl Charlee
All knits, I think, with good explanation of types. Have a limited selection on sale with pieces from £1 per half metre, and some bundles. The rest is all knits, no specific children's patterns, high preponderance of florals and stripes in the patterned ones.Delivery charge £2.99, free if you spend over £35.
Guthrie and Ghani
£13.50 per metre, £2.90 postage. One good thing is that they sell many fabrics in 10cm increments. Shop in Birmingham
Harvey Jacobs
£7 a half metre, postage free over £50, couldn't find other shipping rates. Lots of jersey and knit ribbing too, but hard to search for specific stuff for children. Shop in West Lothian, Scotland
JellyFabrics
£7-£8 per half metre, delivery £1.85 going up to £6. Nice stuff, some not cheap (but may be higher quality?); on-line only
Little Darling Fabrics
£6-£10.50 per half metre, but has some patterned jerseys, many very suitable for children. Delivery £3.50. No shop outlet.
Little Legs
£6.50-£8 per half metre, some sale stuff cheaper; delivery £.50 increasing with volume, pretty stuff; on-line only
Loubodofabrics.com
New to me. They have a shop near Evesham, and also run some workshops. They look to have some lovely knits, and have very good prices in their sale. They also do Facebook sales. Shipping £3, free for orders over £50.
Made to match
£5.50 per half metre, says 2nd class postage, lots of choice. I think they have a store in Wimborne, Dorset.
Mibs
£4.50-£9 per half metre, delivery £2 / metre capped at £4, free over £40, shop in Bangor
Minerva
£9-£15 a metre, postage £1.49 to £2.99, free over £20. Lots of choice but you may have to wade through different categories of print as there isn't a specific children's section; on-line only. Minerva is long-established and reliable, and sell many types of craft products as well as fabric.
Pink Scissors Fabrics
£6-£7 per half metre. postage £2.90. goes up with weight. Very interesting designs. On-line only.
Poppy Bear Fabrics
£6.50 per half metre, postage £1.50 for a half metre, nice stuff; on-line only
Rockstar Fabrics
£6-£6.50 per half metre, postage free, have very nice patterns, on-line only
Sherwoods Fabrics
£5-£15 / metre. You don't know the postage till you order but it's £2.99 minimum.They have jersey prints, and kids' fabrics, but not many kids' jersey prints - you have to hunt them out -but some sale things at good value prices.
Tia Knight Fabrics
£4.99 /metre, delivery £2.99 per metre, from over £25 spend, not much choice for children in jersey but lots of polar fleece in kids patterns, on-line only
TFG
£5-£6 per half. I can't find any mention of postage - is it free? I can't tell you. They don't have a vast choice, but prices seem reasonable, and they also have some inexpensive fleece. On-line only.
Village Haberdashery
£4-£6 per quarter metre; £3.50, free over £50 spend; nice patterns but note pricing is for quarters;shop in West Hampstead, London

See also BST Fabrics below.

Group 2

These are others UK suppliers I've used or have had recommended, not specifically for jersey. Though many do do nice jerseys.


Always Knitting and Sewing
Very reasonable prices, had a lot of stuff from them. Postage £1.45, goes up with volume.Large choice of kids cottons and polycottons. Fat quarters (some work out at £1 each), tartans and remnants, lots of sale stuff, not much jersey.
Abakhan
£10-£12 per metre jerseys, (plains may be cheaper); cottons from £3 to £9 per metre, fleece £10. Postage £2.48, free over £35. Also good haberdashery includine open elastic and waistbands. Also have shops in Shrewsbury, North Wales and North West England.

Bluenaboo - ebay,  same as AKAS above. Much as above but worth checking the ebay site as they may have free delivery.
BST Fabrics
This one is new to me - I'll be trying it! They do have some kids knits, so I could have included them in Group 1 - but they have a big range of other things too. On the face of it their prices look very reasonable. And they have a good haberdashery range. They have a shop in Tyne and Wear. Normal second class postage, free with purchases over £30.
Calico Laine
Cottons for kids £6-£9, printed fleece £7 per metre. £2.49 postage, free over £35. Cottons, polycottons, fleece, identifiable kids stuff, not much jersey, reasonable prices, haberdashery incl Pryn 38 mm elastic @£2.99 
Dots N Stripes
Good selection of fabrics at reasonable prices. £2.95 minimum postage, from over £70. Also have a shop in Dundee.
Empress Mills

£6.45 per half metre jersey, postage by value £3.20 min. Cheap for fleece.
Fabric Penguin
£2.49 per half metre, £3.70 per metre for polycotton, postage free, have a lot of buy 3 get 4th free offers.
Fabricland 

£4-7 a metre. Not a great choice in jersey for kids, but lots of other fabrics. Postage £3.50 up to £10, but they do click and collect if you are in their area. Have lots of inexpensive fabrics, and also do bulk discounts for quantity; 9 stores, all in the South or South East of England, and has been going since 1971. Only added on-line shop more recently. But it's been going strong this year. Free to collect if you live nearby - the click and collect is due to restart in August 2020..
Higgs and Higgs
£8-£14 per metre, pretty fat quarter bundles for c £14, postage £1.95 min. some nice jersey knits including for kids, and needlecord - not dirt cheap but have some nice sale things incl bundles for quilting.
ITokri
This is an unusual on-line shop, in that it is a shop in India, who specialises in Indian types of fabric, but this includes some lovely lightweight cottons. The postage to the UK is about £6 +, which may seem a lot - but the fabric is so inexpensive, that I found it still worth paying the postage to get 4 lovely cotton woven fabrics to make a couple of tops.
Julie's Crafty things - ebay shop
Everything priced per half metre so not as cheap as it looks - £3-£6 for half metre cottons. But great kids fabrics and interesting fabrics, also some cheap patterns.
Lady Sew and Sew
£7-£12 per metre cottons, £12 - £15 for jersey per metre. Postage £1.95. Some quite nice jerseys but would have to scroll through to find kids' stuff. Also good quilting stuff.
Lovely Jubbly
Beautiful designer cottons, expensive as priced per fat quarter (and you can get by the metre); normal Royal Mail postage. Shop in Bournemouth.
Livingstone Textiles Bridport
£9/metre jersey. £3.95 postage. Not nearly as much on-line as in shop! Fleece prices ok on-line but most of the rest seems more expensive than in-store.. 
MacCulloch and Wallis
Listed because they have tartans. from £10/metre.  No idea about postage. In general quite expensive, prices are ex-VAT.
Metre Rabbit
This seems to have a good choice of knits (but also of other fabrics). I think it may be a bit of a one-woman band, as she say it may take a number of days to despatch. Postage not very clear - I think it means 1st class postage sigend for is £2.50 for under 500 gms.. Or you can collect, but I couldn't find out where from! This is also on Facebook.
Miss Cloe Fabrics
Web site takes a bit of navigating, I had to use the search box to find fabrics. But they are cheap. And they do wide elastics = hurrah! Prices basic Royal Mail secnod class i.e. from £2.99.
My fabrics 
£11-£15 per metre for jersey, postage £5.95, free over £50. They have a good section on children's patterns. Prices very reasonable but postage seems steep for small quantities.
Oh Sew Crafty
£7 per half + for jersey, £1.50 postage min, Best for cottons, does tartan fleece, some jerseys but not much.
On-line Fabrics
e.g. fleece for £5-£10. Loads of stuff, huge range of cheap fabrics, £3.95 postage. 
https://patternsandplains.com/
Delivery starts at £1. From £7.40 a metre with some remnants available at reduced prices.
Pin and Sew
Especially good for jersey, nice designs. from £5-£7.50 per half. Flat rate postage £3.50. Also have patterned terry. 
Polin Fabrics
This entry is work in progress, they have some very cheap (and interesting looking) polycottons and fat quarters, and will also cut fabric into 6" squares etc. Postage done on weight, site owner says usually up to 2m is £1.50, then 3m up to 2kg is c £4. However, no delivery information on the web sie.
Pound Fabrics
This may be worth a look for value - but the minimum order quantiy is 3 metres. Still, with some fabrics at £2 a metres for 62" wide, you can't complain at the min 3 metres rule! And they also always have some fabrics, mainly lightweight, at £1 a metre. They also have some cheap bundles. Quite a lot of jerseys, with some that would be suitable for children. Postage costs, however, start at £3.99, max £9.99. (Well, I suppose 3 metres can weigh a lot!)
Plush Addict
£7.50 to £9.20 for 150 cm metres of fleece. Weight based postage from 99p. Free over £40. Mainly fleece and specialist fabrics.
Remnant House
£2.75 + for cottons per metre, £4.95 flat rate postage, free over £30. Dress fabrics - cheap - lots of kids fabrics under a header plus haberdashery, lots of fleece and specialist fabrics incl tartans; some cheap children's fabrics
Scanlan Arts
Very cheap mainly cotton and polycotton fabrics (mainly wholesale?) £2.95 postage minimum. Based in Kent but no outlets that I could see.
Sew Affordable
This is a company I haven't yet used but it appears to do what it says on the tin - the prices are very reasonable. If you are looking for something very specific you may not find it, but there are some real bargain. Delivery charges normal second class Royal Mail.
Sew and So
Some quite pricey fat quarters e.g. £3.25, but some pretty stuff e.g. Tilda. Standard Royal Mail postage.
Sew Crafty
£2-£8 per half metre jersey though not a lot of choice for kids, £7-£8 for bundle of fat quarters; standard Royal Mail postage
Sew Cute Fabrics
Looks very reasonably priced asnd with a good range of different fabrics, but no delivery price information. They do workshops presumably at their store in Doncaster.
Sew essential
£5-£8 for jersey half metre, £1.50 postage min, Quality fabrics, not much for kids though. But good haberdashery.

Sew Fabrics
£5-£6.25 per half metre jersey, free postage; have some nice fat quarter bundles but not cheap fabrics - have some Michael Miller and Riley Blake fabrics
Sew me sunshine
£7 per half for jersey. £2.50 flat rate postage, free over £40. Good explanation of types of jersey, not supercheap but some nice things and haberdashery

Sew Sew fabrics
£3-£9 per metre, cottons and polycottons only. £3.50 flat rate postage. Nice kids stuff and fat quarter bundles.
Sewing Bee fabrics - ebay
£10/metre jerseys, free postage. Not that easy to find children's stuff on their web site. Not super cheap but sometimes have sale items.
Sewing on-line
Cottons £11 per metre, £2.99 postage, free over £30. Nice cotton prints, couldn't see any jersey.

The Little Kraft Shed
Shop in South ~Lakeland. These are mainly wovens, some nice designs but the non-sale fabrics are not cheap. However, they do have some nice things in the sale, at £6-£8 per metre for cotton. They also sell half metres and some fat quarters and jelly rolls.Postage £2.95, goes up with weight but free over £60. 
Textile Express Fabrics
£11 / metre jerseys. Fleece £6.50 to £8 per metre. Postage weight based from £1. Some nice jerseys but not sorted; fleeces are cheap.
The Textile Centre
Centres in East London London and Luton, plus a distribultion depot in Manchaester. No information about delivery charges. You can only find this out if you place an order.
TruroFabric

£6-£12 per metre cottons, standard RM postage, brushed cottons, corduroy and tartans

Uk fabrics on-line

Fleece £6-£7 per metre. Also some nice cotton poplins and poly cottons. Royal Mail tariffs.



These two below ares mainly haberdashery but definitely worth a look for that! £1.39 postage and £3.50 respectively.

Ribbonmoon
William Gee

Group 3

This third group is new. They have no shop, and no web site, only a Facebook page. I personally hesitate to recommend anyone who only seels in this way. However, I suspect this will be a growing trend, so I've included this new category. So you can look at them and join them if you like. I think you probably have to sign up to their Facebook page even to be able to see what they have to offer.. 

Coalville Fabrics
This was recommended by a number of people on Facebook.  However, I can't find what they sell - I haven't signed up. But it was enthusiastically recommended, because they are pretty cheap (I gather). It has about 6000 Facebook members (Jan 2019). However, since I posted this, there have been complaints about their slow service. Maybe that applies to many suppliers now. Just check it out first.
Fabricanza
Has about 3000 members.
Manisha's Fancy Fabrics and Trims
Actually, this is currently the only Facebook supplier I have bought stuff from. She 'does what it says on the tin'. What she suppliers is unusual and fancy fabrics and trims, so when you need those, she has a good choice. However, personally I can't cope with the on-line auction approach to buying fabric, so I've just contacted her separately, to see whether she has what I want.