Originally Posted by catladyquilts
Originally Posted by QuilterChick
Purchasing fabric at WalMart is not going to keep our LQS's in business.
There is a thread here today about LQS going out of business. I will go without something else in order to help support the local business owners; and I am on a fixed income.
I support the shops as much as I can, but I can not afford to spend $9-$16 a yard for fabric for a quilt and it seems to only be going up.
I agree whole-heartedly on the ASA I can on the LQS. But I'd have to give up quilting if I had to pay those kinds of prices and not get my material from my stash, yard sales, WM, Ebay, estate sales, etc. And I once worked for a LQS in So IL and completely understand what the WMs of the world are doing to the LQS business. It's just sad; but it is as it is unfortunately.