We have two Wal-Marts, one within five miles that has been here several years that still stocks fabric and a new one seven miles away. The new one is a much larger store, but there is no fabric department! Hancock closed in our town several years ago and so did JoAnne. There is a JoAnne in Knoxville, about twenty miles away. Is sewing becoming a dying art? My machine would be the first thing I rescued in case of a house fire - can't live without it.