I don't buy FQs any more either. When I first started quilting 4 or 5 years ago, I bought some FQ collections. Then when I have finally decided what to do with them, I find that the things I like to make need more than a FQ. So I stopped getting them. Now I buy at least a yard of whatever fabric I buy. When I made DGSs Turning Twenty, I cut my own FQs from the yardage I had collected, so glad I did because one or two FQs I tried to use were cattywumpus and not square enough to use. That turns out to be a big waste of valuable money. Maybe we, as the buying public, should boycott FQs entirely as a signal to the suppliers that we aren't going to tolerate an inferior product.