First, the Walmart nearest me has finally re-opened their fabric dept...three cheers!!!!! No longer have to travel 25 miles to the other Walmart........I also buy fab from LQS (which is really not so local either), but let's face it....at those prices have to be very special quilts to invest that kind of $$$. So just to satisfy my "have to make something" obsession.......there are other places to purchase fabric at lower prices and not necessarily lower quality.........It is unfortunate that the LQS has had to raise their prices so high to offset their cost/profit margin. I recently had a conversation with a friend who had not purchased fabric for sevreral years and she mentioned after going to JoAnn's how high fabric had gotten and she decided not to "do" whatever project she was thinking of doing...not worth the initial fabric cost in her mind.