Walmart has bitten their own butts when they did away with the fabric departments. I know that here where I live, they did not take them out, but did downsize them dramatically. The quality of the fabric now is horrible and it is true that you can actually count the threads and I also think that the inks will wash out of the fabric. And the prices are almost as much as if you were to have gone to the LQS to buy fabric...so for that reason I no longer buy fabric at Walmart. I would rather go and support my local LQS and GET GOOD fabric then spend my money on garbage fabric.