Most Joanns have a Viking store within the Joanns, all things in this little "store" you cannot use your coupon for, you must have bought your stabilizer from the little store, there is a large range of stabilizers that Joanns sells within the "bigger" store, those you can use your coupon for....unless its on sale already.
Also they have many home dec items that are listed as "perfect pricing" These don't qualify for coupon use.
Be sure to sign up online for Hobby Lobby coupons and clip the sunday coupons for Michaels Cupons...Joanns takes Michaels coupons on "non" fabric items (in other words, if Michaesl sells it they will take a coupon for it) I've had arguments with Joanns employess because Michaels does carry needles, scissors and batting.
JOanns will take Hobby Lobby coupons for anything.
I wish we lived in a world where there were no coupons, I dislke playing the coupon game. The mark up at Joanns is too high to purchase anything without a coupon.