Jim

I went to one unfriendly shop..ONCE....I never went back and didnt buy anything there...its no longer in business...doesnt make me wonder why

cosyquilter

I'm pretty shy myself: went into a small lqs, one woman behind the counter, said nothing. I wasn't sure what I wanted, just wanted to look it over. Couldn't really figure out the shop layout. Finally left with no one saying boo.

yellowsnow55

These shops are like a bad marriage, leave and don't look back.

MadQuilter

Yes - and that's all I'm gonna say. I'm letting my $$ speak at different stores now.

Farm Quilter

I love my LQS! She always greets people when they walk in the door, regulars or newcomers, and asks if you need help with anything. She has also been known to meet customers at the shop when it's closed to allow them to get something they need right now! These are the kinds of shops we need to support so we don't lose them...forget the rest!!

newbiequilter

I have been shop hopping with quilt friends to a very small No. Calif. town to a shop that everyone seems to think is SO great. Layout is great, natural light is wonderful, fabric selection is fantastic (they don't have flannel tho), but their customer service is severely lacking. Both times I have been there I have been totally ignored - even at the check out counter. My friends who are frequent shoppers there were warmly greeted as were others who came in the door. Geeze, what am I, chopped liver? I saved most of my fabric bucks for another store.

Flying_V_Goddess

I've only been to one quilt shop: the one here in town. Pretty much have been going to it since it opened a couple years ago. Found a small ad in the paper about it and just HAD to go. Haven't had a bad experiance there. The owner is friendly. She usually greets me right away. Only time she doesn't is if she's inside her house taking a smoke break when I come...I don't drive and usually walk to the shop so she doesn't hear me "pull in". lol. I get along with her and we'll talk about quilting and what's going on in our lives. When I've seen other customers come in and get fabric she'll take a look at what they're buying and ask what they're working on. If she has something on the longarm I'll end up checking it out. I haven't asked her a lot of questions, but she was really helpful the last time I was in and helped me decide what kind of embroidery floss to get to tie my quilt with.

Sometimes I feel intimidated by her, but I think its just me and not her. She's a lot more experianced with quilting and I'm fairly inexperianced and I do some crazy unconventional things just to get a quilt out (quilting with no table---I sew on a TV dinner stand with the occasional dry erase board flipped upside down on top of it if I need a larger space, ironing with no board, sandwiching layers by pinning layers to the wall, I don't even know how to square up a quilt and doubt I have the space to do it properly). I guess that's why I get intimidated, like if she found out she'll think I have no idea what I'm doing. She did like my original designs, though.

Flying_V_Goddess

You don't know that. I work at in electronics at our Wal-Mart! lol. :lol:

plainpat

yeah,I do....he's a neighbor :-) & fabric is the last thing on his mind.At 16...so is Wmart :-)

Extreme Quilter