Originally Posted by Clueless Quilter
I purchased 20 pieces of 1/2 yard cuts for a quilt so the cost came to $180. If I had to purchase 1 yard cut it would have cost $360 and I never would have made the quilt and the shop would have lost the sale.
That's pretty much along the lines of what I was thinking when deciding what our minimum cut would be. I decided that 1/4 yard minimums would strike the best balance between what's best for our customers and what makes "business sense" for us. We do linear 1/4 yard cuts, not FQs, because it's easy and there's no potential waste (the other unsold FQ). And we charge the same price-per-yard (no price increase for little cuts).
Though... I admit my co-workers are known to breathe a heavy sigh when they have to fill a $80 order of all quarter-yard cuts! (That's a lot of time spent pulling bolts, cutting, and putting them all away again... plus you have to pay much closer attention to an order of 40 little pieces as opposed to one or two items.)