After reading all the posts I am sinfully jealous! I am from AZ and now live in Idaho near my daughter...100 miles from the nearest WalMart!
FYI, while living in the Seattle area my daughters sister-in-law brought me a quilt made out of nylon tricot that was her baby quilt. As I inspected it, there were a few holes in it, and told her I could repair it but where/who made this quilt. She told me her parents had lived in my hometown of Yuma and a woman from church named Grandma Butler gave it to her and helped take care of her mother. Well....I began to cry...that is "my" Grandma Butler! I knew she had made many tricot quilts back then. What a joy it was to repair a quilt my grandmother had made 28 years earlier 2000 miles away! It was a joy.