I really don't go to either one although I have both just about 2 miles from me...and they are about 2 blocks apart. Hobby Lobby seems to sell a lot of artificial everything used for decorating...I prefer my live houseplants and odds and ends stuff I have inherited or collected over the years and I just don't like having to closely examine fabric to determine which might be of fairly decent quality and what isn't....the same thing for JA's but there is a least more fabric and sewing stuff there. My preference for fabric buying is the local quilt shops as I find in general, the quality of the fabric is usually pretty good. I read somewhere that when a designer first releases the designs...they are printed out on good quality cotton and only available in quilt shops...or online...then, there is another run of design...this time on a cheaper poorer quality cotton...and this is the fabric that gets sent to the large box shops like Hobby Lobby and JA. Years ago, I purchased some fabric at the local quilt shop...needed some more of it and saw it at one of the chain stores, purchased it at a much cheaper price, and when I got home I was amazed at the differences in quality. The fabric at the chain store had a different feel, the weave was loser, the design was the same, but the colors were less vibrant. Now, in my experience, you can sometimes get good quality as sometimes if the original run did not sell as well as thought, they will send the remainder to the chain stores. As I now have accumulated a fairly large stash, I do pick up fabric at the local quilt shops when it is on sale and this is especially true for any thing I think might make a good backing and there is enough of the sale fabric for a good queen sized quilt....I don't need my backings to always "match" my top...I just need them to look like they belong in the color scheme....