I am seeing sticker shock at my LQS, even online fabric, $10.85 a yard for new lines of fabric. So I am buying when they have a sale. Ericas is having a great sale January 1, a lot of fabric 40%-50% 0ff. I use my stash when I can, but if I don't add to it, evenually I will run out of fabric. So it really does make sence to buy 'on sale' fabric. I always try
to have several patterns on my 'to do' list so when I find fabric on sale I can choose fabric for one of these patterns.
I'm also looking for backing fabric for a couple quilts I have recently finished.