(TSWLTH = The Store We Love to Hate, aka Joann's)
I got to the Kenosha, WI, store, mid-morning. It wasn't terribly crowded and the cutting line was not as bad as I have seen it other times. I got 10 yards of Warm & Natural, a replacement Ott-lite bulb, a cutting table mat (32 x 60, on sale for $29.99). Oh, yes, and some fabric. (3 yds flannel, which I use as underlining. I've come to like 'mint-and-chocolate' (aqua/turquoise and brown) and added to that a collection. I bought some prequilted fabric to make a jacket -- also mint-and-chocolate. I'm not wild about the polyester batting used, but I figured that if I bought fabric for the outside and the lining, and then sandwiched something in between (e.g. flannel), and stitched it, I'd have the equivalent investment as in buying this fabric. (Regular price for the prequilted is $19.99; I used the 50% off coupon.)
By the time I had the fabric cut and was being checked out it was straight up noon. The clerk said that she wasn't sure if the 20%-off- entire-purchase coupon would be good, since it expired at noon, and as she rung it in it was about 12:02. Fortunately it did. Their computer system does not take into consideration the fact that people might have been in the store in plenty of time and were just caught in long lines.
Nann in northeasternmost Illinois
P.S. I replaced the Ott-Lite bulb, but no light comes on. Bum lamp? It's a clamp-on desktop model that I've had for about 3 years. (I use it at my comptuer desk.) Grrr.