I do feel your pain!!!! I am sort of a beginner quilter
and I try to do things the old fashioned way if possible.
(only I like electric sewing machines) I go into a LQS
and ask for certain items and they do not know what
I am talking about. But by the time I go to them
again, I see the items that they did not have the first
time I was there. It does get frustrating.