I have noticed that some of JoAnne's fabrics have a lot worse quality than LQS fabrics. Especially one of JoAnne's lines that commonly sells for $4.99 a yard here. I will generally not use that quality of JoAnnes fabric on a quilt top. However, given that, on the Saturday after Black Friday, JoAnnes had the $4.99 fabric reduced to $1.99 a yard AND I could use a 25 percent off coupon on top of that. I make charity quilts for kids, so I bought a lot of yards of the $1.99 fabric for the backing. For backs, I couldn't resist paying $1.50 per yard!! I am lucky to have a friend with a sheet-making business who gives me novelty scraps for the charity tops, so with the cheap backs I can make the charity quilts without spending much $. But if I were making an heirloom quilt I wouldn't use the cheaper JoAnne's fabric because I am fortunate to have 2 LQS that sell quality fabric for $5-$6 per yard.