About once a year many shops allow their customers to sell their own stash to clear out space for their new projects.
In this way, one can find fabric, Quilt Shop quality for 2 or 3 dollars a yard. Yardage is usually noted. If this is not the case,
ask your local quilt shop to host sale. They will usually do so and showcase their own fabrics and fat quarters.
If there is a quilt group, sell lemonade or tea and little sandwiches.
Sellers usually pay a 10 dollar fee to shop owner and if you can get 10 sellers during a slow time of year for the shop, they go for it. It is also great PR for them.
As an organizer, you of course would get first choice, right?
Cindy