My LQS is about an hour away, but it's wonderful! I don't go often as I am just now getting into quilting and haven't really started yet, just took the class so far. That was last year. I have been buying fabric for about two years, mostly online, but I did get a bunch of the Kaufmann Flourish line there this year when it came out so I wouldn't lose out on getting it, it's so pretty, and I go to the fat quarter sales and stock up. Anyway, I was going to say also that there are a lot of things we can get at the shops, all the geegaws and such. Last week my daughter and I went into Houston for a furniture shopping trip for her, and I stopped by the shop just for the heck of it, and asked about some machines that they had on sale. By the time I left, I had put in layaway my first new 'quilting' machine, a Janome 3160, even though I had thought not to do it till I was able to get serious about starting to make quilts. My current machine was a cheapo Brother from Walmart for about 70 bucks. Yeah. 'Nuff said, right? anyway, the next day we had to go back to Houston to take care of details for Daughter's furniture purchase, and stopped by the Lazyboy place. THey had just what I needed to replace our old one, but it was a lot of course. I started really thinking how foolish I was to put that machine on layaway, when there are so many things we need right now. I considered calling them to ask to cancel the purchase, but finally decided against it. Now I am so glad I decided not to cancel. I had not considered what the shops are going through now. I will just have to wait for the other things that are more needful, but I am happy that I am keeping the machine. I can't wait to use it, so it will definitely be an incentive to get into my sewing!