Yardage vs precuts vs FQ?
Curious as to what people favor for fabric; traditional yardage, fat quarters or the smaller precuts? Do you use different fabric types for different projects?
I can totally see the value of the "new" precuts (charms, jelly rolls, honey buns). It feels like it's a tradeoff for those people who don't like to cut fabric and also for a way to get a whole coordinating fabric collection without the work of picking and choosing fabrics on your own. The downside that I see is... they seem to be a little spendy and isn't it the fabric shopping that attracts many of us to the art of quilting?
Fat quarters have been around forever and it feels like they are a more reasonable way to purchase smaller quantities of fabrics for piecing quilt tops. The downside is that they are smaller pieces and don't seem to be realistic for larger projects unless. It doesn't seem reasonable to buy multiple FQs over a yard of fabric. What's a good price to expect to pay for a FQ? I've seen them run the gambit from $1.00 to $4.99. Does it depend on the fabric quality the same way you might expect a yard of fabric to run from $1.99 to 19.99?