Jan, when you go to San Francisco, be sure to check out Britex Fabrics at 146 Greary St. downtown. Not a LQS but 4 floors of every imaginable fabric type, buttons and embellishments galore. My DH had found it when he was in SF on a business trip and when we went there last summer he made sure I got to go to Britex. My 15 yo DD and I spent a lot of time in the quilting fabric section and the saleslady realized that my DD is a budding quilter so she went to a closet and brought out her amazingly beautiful crazy quilt. It took her about 6 years to complete and was just awesome. The prices were higher than home and the quilting section isn't very big but we found things we don't see at home (including the cutest SF landmarks fabric that I intend to put into my "vacation memories" quilt someday) so we bought a bunch of fabric. We were like kids in a candy store.