I was in a hurry and needed to get some patches on a shirt for that evening's event. I don't have a sewing machine and I'm not handy with a needle, so I called Mom back east. She recommended some "stitch witchery" shit that I could get at Jo-Ann's. I don't know of any nearby in CenPho so I used my trusty Yelp app for Android and searched on "fabric". SAS came up and I banged a Louie and headed over.
The place is a no-frills warehouse stocked to the gills with anything and everything I suppose fabricky-people use/need. The place was PACKED with customers and employees buzzing about and cutting bolts of fabric and such. I snagged a salesperson, explained my mission and she recommended fabric glue. I picked up a bottle and a $0.20 spool of black thread (ya never know when you'll need black thread and for $0.20 ya can't beat that with .... well, a more expensive spool of black thread?!?!)
They had all kinds of neat things like patches and oddly, tiaras in all shapes & sizes. I think the place is a big hit with the QuinceaƱera crowd. If I'd had more time I probably would have perused the joint a little more, but I was in a rush to get home.
All in all, I was in and out in 5 minutes and felt as if I'd entered and left some alternate universe where people still sew their own clothes....but the fabric glue worked (for the most part -- I cheated and didn't follow the instructions, so my bad there), but if I ever need fabric, yarn, taffeta or tulle again I now know where to go.