Being on a fixed income I have to watch my pennies. I buy a lot of fabric from thrift stores and yard sales, but I'm a little picky about it. I've gotten most of my fairly large stash this way and some very nice fabrics. When an on line store was going out of business a couple years ago I splurged and bought 40 yds @$2.00 a yd. Should've bought more but the pocketbook said no.
I much prefer Hobby Lobby now to JoAnns. Ever since JoAnns changed some of their sources, a lot more of the fabrics are very thin. Even the employees at my local store think so. I do go to my favorite LQS if Hobby Lobby doesn't have what I need. Mostly now I only buy what I need to go with what I pull from my stash for a particular project.
Cari