We are snowbirds. When I went home to Vancouver Island last year the fabric that I had bought in the summer was now $35.00 (cdn) a metre. I had paid somewhere between $20. and $24. I can't remember but it was to finish a particular quilt. A metre is 3" longer than a yard. The exchange rate at that time was about 1/3 so still comes to almost $24.00 (us). I have stopped buying fabric. I don't want to qualify for S.A.B.L.E. The group I quilt with in Canada has had 2 members pass away in the last year. What a lot of work they have left behind for someone to deal with. Our group put it all up for sale for the one family and Ohhhh, I did buy a bit a fabric at that sale and a whole bunch of thread.