Buying a 1/4 yard of multiple fabrics sounds great, but if you want jelly roll like fabric (20 or so coordinating fabrics) you might be hard pressed to find that except in quilt shops. Here, our quilt shop sells all their fabrics for $12.99 per yard and fat quarters for $3.49 each.
Maybe others have other fabric stores available to them that have coordinating fabric lines more reasonable where they will sell you 1/4 yard pieces. Stores like Joann's just don't have much in the way of coordinating fabrics when you want to emulate jelly roll lines. They can be ok for finding some pieces to coordinate with what you all ready have.
The problem I have with bargain sale fabric, is it is usually one of kind, or sometimes two or three from a line, then you have to set out to find fabrics that will coordinate with them. Don't misunderstand me. I am a bargain shopper for nice fabric at a reasonable cost, but that has resulted in my accumulating soooooooo much fabric, I will never in my remaining years ever be able to use. Plus I have to cut it up myself. So though I don't like to have to spend $35-$40 for a jelly roll, in my case, it would be cheaper.
Perhaps if I were younger, buying all this yardage might make more sense.
Last edited by Schill93; 07-30-2018 at 12:56 PM.