Originally Posted by BellaBoo
A good budget stretcher is to go to a thrift shop and buy men's cotton shirts to cut up. The shirts have the best plaids and small prints that's hard to find. If you buy shirting fabric in a quilt shop, if you can find it, it's very expensive.
Ok, this brings up something I have been wondering abt. for a while. Wouldn't shirting be polyester/cotton blend? What about using fabrics other than cotton? I have a huge fabric stash of other fabrics, since I've been sewing for years. Being really involved with quilting and not sewing for little grandkids any more, I would like to use up this stash on quilts. There are a lot of knits & flannels (which I know are okay), and poly/cotton blends.