I'm a new quilter and have been very tempted by the kits that they put together in my LQS. I have bought a few full price that I had to have, but one store puts them on 40% off when it's the last one. So several of them have come home with me at 40% off - that is hard to resist. The owner of that particular shop though told me that cotton prices are going up next year due to several cotton crops being destroyed due to weather - I think flooding.