Jo-Ann [Fabrics] “might be out of touch with their customer base…. When you consider that a 70-year-old could have been dancing naked at Woodstock and a 50-year-old could have been smoking pot in high school—sometimes you have to change your marketing.”
Someone else quoted on Jo-Ann’s decision not to carry the issue:
“Good grief! What year is this???” writes a poster identified as “Sara Volk” in response to the news on Lipinski’s blog. “Since when did JoAnn Fabrics become the arbiter of MY morals? I’ll go to church for that… and when I want styrofoam chickens I’ll go to JoAnn’s.”
Future of the GOP
WP quotes Mark Lipinski, the editor of Quilter’s Home magazine on its Jan/Feb issue (Hesse, “Uncovered! The Unseemly Side of Quilts,” 5 Mar ’09):
(Or pirating crafts patterns [1, 2, etc].)
Someone else quoted on Jo-Ann’s decision not to carry the issue: