I made a decision when I started to quilt, that I would try to do it on the cheap. Not necessarily with cheap fabric, but good fabric bought cheaply. At the time we were in and out of thrift stores 3 or 4 times a week. Whenever I found good material I liked at a reasonable price, I bought it. I now have maybe 4 or 5 document box size totes full, plus 1 and 1 1/2 closets, half a rolling tower. Our 2nd bedroom is very disorganized and is set up as a very inefficient office. Recently, I suggested to DH we turn it into a quilting room and got the ok. Now we need to decide how to do it, and I'm in the process of trying to wind all my material on comic book boards.
I generally sew in the dining room on a sewing desk with 4 drawers and with a chair next to me piled with projects. I have also thought that it would make more sense to swap the chair out, get rid of the pile of projects and substitute a dresser for the storage and then leave the top clear for a pressing surface.
A long, not always relevant post, but I too have joined the don't buy too much until I have used up some of my stash group. I must confess I've recently bought a couple of pieces of yardage at Joann's on sale with coupons just out of sheer need to buy :D. I would not feel right about quilting if I had to buy fabric at LQS full retail prices, just me, but I have mostly been on a some what tight budget financially and especially when I first started quilting, we had just retired and didn't know how we would do, we had a lot of years ahead of us and no idea how much retirement would cost, how much income we would wind up with and how far it would go. As it turned out, we've done fine, but part of that was being frugal and building up the stash as I found bargains and I mean paying as little as $1 a yard :thumbup: