i've started going to thrift stores--remarkably there are always many, many fabrics available. i also check out 'cotton' dresses and cut them up; cotton sheets...i, too find they say one thing to get you hooked into their store to find there isn't much of a sale. i read an article on the ladies of the Civil War Era and how much they paid for material for quilts-at that time-some 12. a yard! so many of them started using old clothes, too. i've made (3) fan quilts; attic windows, to name a few-sorry, most of my material is NOT from a fabric store.