sales, thrift stores, yard/estate sales, recycling-refurbishing clothes, and when ever someone in the family has sorted out kids clothes that have been worn out/out=grown i ask for the garbage bag FIRST- i go through it and salvage what i can then pass on the clothes to others who can use them. and i save every little piece- if i ever have no money for fabric i will still have boxes of little scraps to make into a quilt