I shop at locally owned stores as much as possible for everything I buy. The local merchants are the backbones of our small towns. I want to keep small towns alive.
I keep reading on this site "take it to your LQS, ask them for advice", or " I asked my LQS and they suggested...", and "my LQS has the best classes". If we do not shop at our LQS, they will be forced out of business. Ask for advice at Wal-Mart, after you spend 15 minutes waiting for the employeed to shop up to cut the fabric (and you tell them how to measure it). Jo-Ann's is sketchy, sometimes good, sometime not, but my LQS is ALWAYS good!