Originally Posted by quilterfly
How do those of you who live in Canada, England, Australia, etc. manage to purchase fabric at all? I'd have to go back to using old clothing, etc. if I had to pay those prices for fabric. I've seen some of those fabrics though, and they are exquisite. social Security retirement just doesn't make allowances for my fabric stash.
It just harder to build up your stash and when I don't have to use it for a swap I buy most of the time other fabrics then quilting fabs. On the market I can get nice and good cottons thats originally for making clothes for 4 to 10 dollars a meter. I also use the cotton fabrics from IKEA.
Because of the bad economy lots of quilt shops closed their doors. In that case I buy a whole bunch of real quilting fabrics when it's on sale. But my stash whit real quilting fabs is quite small.
So only for swaps and special quilts I use real quilting fabrics. :)
( and yes I use old clothes and linnen too :) )