View the quilts
I always view the quilts first. I take my digital camera and take pictures. I take my time and soak up all the talent and beauty.
I live by(45 mins.) a big retail/wholesale fabric store (Marshall's) and while they have lots of fabric and often top name brands you cannot depend on them to have what you are looking for. You need to buy over a period of months(sometimes a year)to get everything you are looking for for a particular quilt. But they are very cheap, most fabric is $2.99 a yard, lots is $1.99 and the rest is $3.99 to $4.99 a yard. For an actual quilt shop I have to go about 100 miles which we do on the first Friday of the month because she has fat quarters for half price.
You can ALWAYS find fabric SOMEWHERE, but you sure cannot find the quality of quilts that I see at Paducah anywhere else. It is the ONLY reason I go. I am always amazed and awed!