Oldswimmer, you're my kind of person.I like to look for bargains and unusual places to get them.IWe used to go to auctions because sometimes you can get whole boxes of quilt materials there for as cheap as $o.50. I figure it's not to see how much you can spend on making a quilt but how little you can make a nice quilt for.We used to have a sewing factory,in our town,and you could get boxs of nice scraps or sometimes even yards of nice material cheap.Good thing I have a large house because I have boxs of scraps saved for quilts. Course I share them with friends.