Originally Posted by dbright
The downside is that I live in a small town and about 2 hours away from a quilt store. When Walmart closed out fabric a quilt store opened up. We are having a wonderful time for miles around going to our local quilt shop. Walmart will kill this shop. It killed the ones when they had fabric. They will not carry all the needs of a quilter. They will not have classes. Sorry I am not excited for my small town.
Same thing happened where I live. All 5 LQS closed in 2009, so no classes. I hope the one LQS that just got started back up 8 months ago will not be leaving us; it is a new owner who went out on a limb.