If I like a fabric I buy 2 yds. If I really love it I buy 3 yds then there is enough for a border or such in my project. But the fabrics change so much from yr to yr I no longer try to buld a stash. I try to plan what I am making next. Right now I have a lot of scrappy pcs. left over from other projects so plan on trying to use them up in a scrappy quilt.