We have TONS of fabric in our store here. THANK GOODNESS.

I bought a thread count thinghy and take it to Walmart/JoAnns/Hobby Lobby/ and even the quilt shops. I can tell if the fabric is woven evenly or has any slubs in the threads. I find many times that some WalMart fabric is as nice as the quilt shop fabric. Not the majority of it is though. It's always been some of the $5 a yard cotton fabric there that is good quality.

What kind of "thinghy"? :D

http://threadcounters.com/

I found a version at Hobby Lobby but it's not as easy to read.

Those are just like the ones drug stores have to look at your pills. I got one free at xmas. I use it to thread the smalest needles :D I go by the feel on my fabric :wink:

A powerful magnifying class will work too once you know what to look for. :D I practiced using a quilt shop quality fat quarter and compared it to other fabrics.

Glad to hear that never understood why some walmarts do not have fabric section are does and those in surrounding towns too.

I came across a post on another sewing forum and they were talking about thread counts from stores. What the jist of it was is that most fabric in quilts stores is 260 thread count and the fabric in walmart was 180 Joanns is 200. The question that was biening answerd was about why the price for quilts shop fabirc was so much higher. One word Quality.

Then again for those of us out in no mans land that means very little if we only have one place to buy from. BTW you can get fabric online cheap that is real good quality. I have a few quilt fabric catalogs coming to me so I have a bigger selection.