I usually only buy for my current project but I have a huge stash from all the leftovers and all the fat quarters which was what I bought when I first started quilting..only to learn I couldn't make much out of them until I started making scrap quilts (now my favorite.) I'm in a quilting ministry at our church so we get a lot of donations, but, unfortunatlely, we don't get a lot of yardage but we make the best scrap quilts you've seen. My mother was obsessed with fabric and brought tons of it in 4-6 yard pieces. The sad thing is she sewed during the polyester era so I couldn't use her stash.