Thread: How much can you NOT spend?

I find the fabric in reasonable locations it is the wadding/ batting which is the expensive part. It comes in at roughly £15 per metre, and 1 metre never does for a bed quilt. A single quilt cost me £20 for fabric including backing but wadding was £23 .
any cheap ideas for wadding. I'm fussy as I don't like polyester wadding.

I have a nice stash of my own and also a generous batch was given to me. I haven't even had to buy thread in a long time. My $$ goes toward batting or an occasional tool, or template or stencil. My last gift quilt was entirely leftovers from one I had made for a friend, with her buying the fabric! She didn't want the scraps. Yay me!:-) I'm keeping my spending low, too, like many others. I'm happy I love scrappies so much.

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*** $20. for a quilt is GREAT.
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*** You are officially in the THRIFTY Club.
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For a while I was collecting cotton men's shirts from rummage sales... approx. $.50 each or stuff a bag for $1 or $2... Not much money in them. I've made three quilts from those shirts and barely made a dent in all that fabric. And, I find the shirt quilts are my favorites to keep and use because they are so cozy, scrappy and cheerful. There's a LOT of fabric in a men's XL shirt! And you can always piece big squares to make a back.

I don't think so. You might have spent more if you had gone and bought a gift in a store.

I've never thought about trying to make a quilt the cheapest I can and don't want to have to think it.

I tend to buy my fabrics online when they are having sales. Thought their prices are already lower than local fabric stores, I still wait for a good sale and then purchase 2-5 yds of each. Same goes for the quilting thread. As all my quilts are made as gifts I try to find the lowest prices without lowering the quality of the fabrics. I try to use up scraps from the previous quilt into the next quilt. Right now I'm looking to make placemats using fruit and veggie fabrics I acquired for a Brick & Stone quilt I have on the frame right now. Its fabric I doubt if I'll ever use it again so making placemats for someone who loves to garden would fit the bill in my book.

So far from my scrap bucket I've made up 6 oversized lap quilts 60 x 75 so I call these my freebie quilts. One quilt that's waiting to be quilt has a backing made up of all the fabric leftovers and most of the quilt top came from my stash too.