I only bought small pieces, probably just a lot of fat quarters when I first got started quilting. It's probably all I could afford at the time. I now have boxes of annoyingly small pieces of fabric. They're too big to get rid of (I know I'll use that 2" square!) and way too small to ever have a cohesive quilt. I don't mind having lots of scrap batiks because I hand appliqué exclusively with them. The rest seems wasteful though. I wish I had bought less variety of bigger pieces (at least 1 yard). Those fat quarters are so tempting but not as practical IMO.