A couple of weeks ago .... one of the Topics for discussion, on the QB was bringing the attention to ...... "Noticing how much JoAnns fabric prices have been "inching-inching" upwards to becoming very noticable to those who buy fabrics for what we do". Some of the responses for this topic resulted in statements indicating the prices of "cotton" due to shortage in in the product commodity. I'm not saying this may or may not be the reason for the pricing surgering ..... however I am now thinking, with this news of "JoAnns Buy-Out", this may just have a lot to do with their big rise in fabric prices ..... which would not surprise me a bit! The "Big Money Mongers" keep getting richer by the minute .... with you and I having to learn to live with it.