Recently I made a purchase at JoAnn's without having the rest of the quilt fabric with me. When I got home, it was perfect with the others so asked my daughter (who lives near the store)to pick up an additional 2 yards for me for the quilt for her son. "Mom, are you used to paying that much for fabric?!" She grew up in 4-H and knows what fabric cost in those days of yore so it came as quite a shock to her what has happened to fabric prices.
If you are working on a lap size quilt, shop the remnant bins for small cuts. Good buys there, too. That's how my stash got started!