my least expensive quilt lap size cost 75 cents the fabric for the top was scraps given to me for the batting I picked up an old mattress pad for 50 cents backing an old sheet for 25 cents at a thrift store and tied it still using it today and is very soft and still bright as fabric was polyester blends and for dying fabric I have picked up white on white at Joann's and used rit dye the flowers or white does not dye so you can have pink or whatever with white flowers