I made the mistake of buying for a stash. Not a lot but it was mostly prints on sale and not what my taste developed into. I wish I had just purchased for projects I was working on. Now I'm into batik scrappies so I now purchase a yard at a time of what in my head I consider to be "glorious color". A stash builds fast on it's own. Take your time, soon it will be more than you ever wanted to hang onto.