Originally Posted by
bkay
I was at JoAnn's last week for baby quilt backing. I found the perfect color in flannel. However, the last time I bought flannel there, it "pilled" badly. In fact, it was "knobby" after 2 washes to shrink it. I asked about the my previous experience, and the sales person said they didn't have "no pill" flannel.
When I gave up on flannel, I found the perfect yellow on the sale rack. I believe it was a batik, but it didn't say so on the bolt. It was really soft, like lawn or batiste.
bkay
JoAnn's always seemed like kind of a mixed bag on fabric. They'd have some good lines and some bad ones, but in the last few years the bad seems to have increased. Glad you found something that worked. It often means shopping online, but Robert Kaufman and Moda have always been pretty reliable for quality flannels in my experience.