I was surprised on my last trip to our Wal Mart in Anderson, California to find a fabric section! They had a very nice selection of quilting cottons. I don't know if I would invest a lot of money for a large project, but the fabric looked pretty nice and I did buy some for a few table runners I'm doing. So far the fabric seems to be of fairly good quality. The best part, it was almost 1/2 the price of the quilting store fabric. Lets hope it holds up!