I you buy yardage and cut your own, you are going to have to have approximately 3 yards at the very least , as you can get 14 strips of WOF out of a yard of fabric and this would be a 1 yard cut. To have the various fabrics, you would need 20 fabrics cut at 1/6 yard each. total of 3 and 1/3 yards fabric. I do have a quilt shop that will cut 1/6 yard cuts. You do the math, I would say to shop and find a jelly roll on sale. Just MHO