Originally Posted by
BellaBoo
I've been to dozens of quilt shops all over the US. I can count on one hand the shops that I would want to revisit. Most are unfriendly and and have employees and owners that are quilt news ignorant.
I have visited quilt shops in a lot of places and I have never been to one where the employees were unfriendly. The small town quilt shops tend to be the most friendly. Our 2 lqs are very friendly and helpful. I try to buy from lqs whenever I can. The small businesses have a difficult time competing with national chains. The "big boys" can buy merchandise cheaper because of the sheer volume of their purchases. If we don't support the small lqs we might not have any choice but to buy chain store quality fabric. Chain stores have some good quality fabric, but not all of their fabric falls into that category.