Ditto on the "pop up" stores and doors in the alley's to the backs of stores. Smart people buy up tons of fabrics and rent a small store during Quilt Week and sell the fabrics! My DD lives in Paducah so we have a free place to stay and a chauffer with a very small car. My DH goes with us (DD is a quilter too) and he is our fabric "holder" - LOL. He once said that he thought the average age of the quilters was 72. You cannot go anywhere in the city during Quilt Week without seeing a million women wearing name tags and the hundreds of busses that they came in. I really don't know how the busses even can get home with all of the fabric, etc. that these women cram in them.
Yes, Eleanor Burns has $1 off a yard of a certain color every day - she has 3 or 4 locations rented during the show - one location last year had tons of fabric scraps at about $10 a pound. I got LOTS of batik scraps that day.
It is just so much fun. Be sure to eat some strawberry shortcake outside of the Quilt Show under big tents that the Boy Scouts sell - a very good cause.
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joyce888
Don't be afraid to go down allies and check out pop-up vendors selling in temporary stores. I went for the first time last year and plan on going this year. I found some of the best deals (and very good fabric) in some of those places. Be sure the check out Eleanor Burns store for daily deals; last year she had sales by color (ex. Any fabric with pink was on sale for x amount for one day).