The price of fabric
I have LOTS of fabric, but it seems no matter how much you have, coordinating it can be a bear sometimes. I have a layecake I bought a couple of years ago. It looked a lot better on line. I purchased it after watching a tutorial of Missouri Star Quilts. It looked like it might be cute for my son's bedroom colors.
Well the colors on youtube were much more vibrant than what they actually were in real life. It must be their lighting. Well I could not find a border or backing in my stash that co-ordinated well enough to my liking, so after much time spent I finally caved, and bought from a retailer on line. That set me back $112., pluss my original $42 for the layer cake, then there is batting $26, and I will need to have it quilted, so another $150-$200. That's $330 to $380 for a full size quilt. That's just crazy. Before taking up this hobby, if you told me I would have to pay that much money for a bedcover for a doule sized bed, I'd think you were smoking somethg. (not to mention I would be doing the piecing labor myself)
I can no longer do the quilting myself, as I am bed ridden. I know it would be almost half the cost if I could still do it. I will need to either lower my standards, or give up the ship I guess.