Normal priced quilting fabrics are between $18 and $25 here. Some are nearly $30.
Sale prices are from $10 upwards.
Not a cheap hobby; though I admit I really enjoy using the remnants of blouses I make for myself, the good pieces from my menfolks old cotton shirts, old tablecovers and such like, in my patchwork & quilting.
Something satisfying about not wasting perfectly good offcuts.
Much I suspect as the original ladies who pieced did.
Mary