I go to the local FabricRecycle store. Quilters or sewers donate to the store for store credit, and people like me buy it.I bought 5 mini packages of charm pieces today for $1.20 each. I need to make 156 3 inch squares, and I so far, have 35. I LOVE the Fabric Recycle store, I can't stay away and I go every Friday. I bought enough blue for my snowman top of it, gold for the stars. I should've bought green, and I ordered red from a flash sale with CraftTown fabrics for about $4.00 a yard. I need white, and green. If FabricRecyle doesn't have it, there's 2 quilt shops. One is 5 mintues away, small. The other is huge, and is near the FabricRecyle store. I saved my scraps today. But I guess, I need to know exactly what to buy, as in the snowman quilt, and buy extra, which I"m doing.
Lesson learned, I tried to finish a quilt and I had to order yardage from etsy. Thank goodness I found it. I'll cut it into my own strips and finish it.
So right now I'm buying what I need, though I do like fat quarters. I have the entire sock monkey set of fat quarters I bought a few years ago...surely there's something I can do with them. And I like jelly rolls, which I have several of.