Pine Grove in Kenmore is a dream, and their remnant bins are a real treasure if you're a scrap quilter. Patchwork Garden and Sew What in Amherst. And, you can't beat the ladies at Threads of Time, also in Amherst, for the (free!!!) help you can get during their Monday night quilters' workroom -- I can't thank them enough for what I've learned. We are very lucky here Western NY -- I can name about a dozen shops within a 30 minute drive of Buffalo, and many of them have different areas they specialize in, so you aren't seeing the same fabrics from one to the next.