Whittles is a great place - I've been happy ordering from them online and they are great people in person...
We stopped in on our way home from picking up our grand daughter - 5 months later we stopped again and we were remembered~~!! that totally impressed me - the local Joanns folks don't even remember us and we've been in there numerous times!
Whittles sells stuff that's a few years old...
http://www.whittlesfabrics.com/
I'd rather do that for $3.50 a yard than the junk that's been appearing at Joanns....
as somebody said, if it feels like sandpaper forget it...
or you can hold it up and read the paper through it...
yes, I have some wallyworld stuff - it's used for laprobes at nursing homes - where it is washed to death then tossed out....