Ha! You have reminded me of when our guild had Tricia Cribbs, who designed the Turning Twenty pattern, as a guest speaker for our program in April. She was showing us various quilts and patterns, and she had one pattern she had designed around one particular fabric...I think it was a very cute animal design. I can't recall if she was going to make kits or what, but she said she was devastated when she couldn't find any more of the fabric. When she called the company, they had no intent of "running another printing" of the fabric.
Apparently she asked if they would "run another printing" if she bought all of it, and they said yes, but they that would be....oh, I have forgotten....something like 2000 yards or maybe even more...it was a BIG number. Well, Tricia said "Yes," and her husband, who was standing at the back of the room, said, "Yup, she sure did." It was delivered in a huge truck and I think she said it wasn't even on bolts but on rolls.
Then she said her goal was that every quilter in the country would buy a yard or two, and she just happened to have some of it with her for sell. Which she did.
I thought it was funny. Guess you could do the same thing if you really wanted that fabric.
Dina