Our LQS recently closed their brick and mortor shop, but they are still on-line. The only time I bought from other shops was when she did not have what I was looking for, or when my friends and I would take road trips (about once a year. She had over 7000 bolts of fabric, so we could just about always find what we wanted. The price of cotton going up has really hurt the Quilt Shops. I wonder how many will survive?