I'm doing my first one through my LQS, they charged $75 at the beginning, then every month you pick out your fabrics for free(yardage dictated on pattern), then at the end they give you a $50 gift card to put towards the borders/binding
backing. You use every fabric on the block as you get them ie: block 7 will have all 7 fabrics, #3 block has 3 fabrics. It 's been really fun because you don't really know how it will look, and you learn a lot of techniques in the process!