Any store I go into, for some reason I start on the left and work my way around. That way I don't back-track and waste time. Even if I know exactly what I want, getting there is half the fun. I alway's check out the clearance rack, notions (for anything new), and alway's the sales if any.

I enter, get a cart, push to calicos and then the new fabrics and then the notions and then the thread section and ponder over if I will need more or different colors. All and all, I am in there two hours at the least!

Sale tables first, then whatever my newest interest was. For a while, I was collecting florals, then homespuns, then it was purples, then greens, then civil war fabrics, then blacks, then golds and yellows, then large prints, etc. But now, it's strictly on a need to use basis. I'm only buying fabric if I absolutely need it for a project that I'm working on, if I can't make do with something from my stash. My stash is so huge, and I'll never use it all, so I decided that I should quilt buying arbitrarily just to make my stash bigger. I miss it though!

I wish we had a Joann's. We have Hancocks and Hobby Lobby
Both of them are expensive and not much on sale. Hancocks usually has a sale going mostly on uphostlery fabric. Their aisles are so crowded one can hardly shop.
I usually look at sale materials first then batting etc.

Usually start with the sales then work my way around the store. My daughter goes straight to the batiks then drools.

I head for the "on sale" fabric. I have this idea that there will be an onslaught of quilters grabbing every bolt on the shelves and there will be nothing but one ugly bolt left for me. So I always gravitate to the sale of cotton fabrics. Edie

I have my LQS owner and friend well trained. She calls and tells me a new brown truck delivery has been done.lol. I do scenes and old barns, she and the girls that work there. will say oh Jo wont this make a good tree trunk or Hey Jo doent this look like snow ? Of course it does and then I have to have a yard or this and half a yard of that. Who did I say was well trained? lol Jolo

Batiks like most of you, then the fabric. They usually have new lines in the middle so give that a glance as I go by. then the notions and books which are right there together. Convenient of them isn't it? lol. We all seem to go for the beauty before the daily.ll

Billy, was your house on the rise okay?

LOL I haven't been able to go and see but I called some family and they said they went over there and it looked okay from what they can tell from the outside. But they did have a tornado not far from there on the other side of the river so I was fortunate!

Billy