Fabric Sale Alert/Joann's

I tried going into my not so local one and found it had way too much pot pourri, air freshener spray, scented candles burning, Glade plug-ins, and Air Wicks stinking up the place for me to stay long enough to even look at the fabric closest to the door before being forced to leave by the dizzying, headache inducing, stomach churning stench.

Last January there was no scent at all in the building, then in March the owner decided she wanted it to smell flowery, and it has snowballed from there. Despite many customer complaints, and two good workers quitting due to headaches, she has continued adding more overpowering scents to the building until the perfumes are now combining with each other and producing a new gruesome odor with a life of it's own. The horrible combination of clashing scents now smells like a drunk vomited on a French streetwalker.

There is nothing that would make it worth the migraine and nausea for me to shop there anymore. I don't know where I'll buy thread--the even-less-local quilt shops don't sell it--that leaves Wally World or online. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Have you thought of contacting Corporate and complaining? Here's a place to start, I'll bet the store is not supposed to have overpowering scents. There are just too many allergic people.

Ms P

I think I will. Debra in VA See my quilts at