You'll find batiks cost more and so far I haven't found that price at my fabric stores but I'm sure its coming to our small towns here. You might check out fabrics online as I know Connecting Threads have batiks at around $7-8/yd. These prices are the reason why scraps do not get tossed out till they're too small to pick up. I'm on a pension so I limit myself on how much I can buy a month. Sometimes its so tempting to just throw caution to the wind but that just gets me into hot water with my credit card. I'm already bogged down for the next 3 months before I can buy more fabric cause I threw caution to the wind.