Where do you find fabric at $6.99 a yard. Have you been to the fabric store in Eatonville? They have some nice fabrics there. They are about $8.99 a yard.

I know I cannot believe the prices. To top it all off there is not many places here in southern Indiana to even buy fabric. So for those who are just getting into quilting it makes it hard to even start a stash.

Many of the quilt shops here around me in Texas have a mark down room with really nice things and I like to go see what's there first. I have gotten some really nice bargans for $4.99 to $6.00 a yard from those mark downs. The shop I like best and that is closest to my house has even started to mark down kits and I love that so watch those mark down shelfs.

My DH has encouraged me to buy up some extra fabric before it gets out of reach. I don't want to just go buy it without a plan for how to use it. We are pouring over patterns and making a list of fabric needed for each pattern we pick. Of course, by the time I get around to any one of the quilts, the whole plan may change. The design I pick today may not interest me at a later date! Know what I mean? Any way, I think he's special to be helping me pick design and fabric. He loves fabric shops and quilt shops.

We've been traveling in our RV for the past 3 months. I've visited quilt shops all over the southwest and written about them on my blog. I've been purchasing fabric all the way, and haven't noticed an increase in prices. We'll be home in about ten days. I figure I'll go on a fabric diet then--but I'll do it fat and happy with my new stash items.

I agree with you about buying now. Cotton prices are going up and fabric prices are going to rise too. Even though I'm a beginner quilter, I prefer working from my own stash. (Actually I enjoy touching and arranging more than I should admit.) The light in my home and the items I wish the quilts to go with are all right there for me to work around. (The light in the stores is usually awful and there are too many competing fabrics.) Fortunately or unfortunately my tastes in fabrics has not changed much in the last 30 years. If I may a big mistake with a purchase I can always give it to Goodwill and make another person very happy.

My sister promised me to send all her fabric earlyer this year as she is not quilting anymore but when she found out how much it would cost to send it all she decided not to ship to me. She is coming to Minnesota this fall with the fabric and to visit for a week.

I haven't been to a local quilt shop lately. So not real sure what the prices are in the shops here now. I usually go to JoAnn's for the fleece I buy to make baby blankets for sale. Don't buy much in the quilting fabrics dept. at JoAnn's. I have a pretty big stash anyway, since I worked for a fabric store and also a quilt shop back a few years ago. But when I do want a nice quality piece of quilting cotton I go to the internet. I have gotten some really nice name-brand fabrics from company's like Fabrics.com, Thousands of Bolts, Fabric Shack(?). Fabrics.com has free shipping on orders over $35.00 (I think that is right) and the Fabric Shack (seems like that is not the right name) has half price shipping all the time now! And I have found that the fabric I get looks pretty much just like what they show on the internet.

Some people collect Depression glass, old china, antique furniture--any number of things. Why not collect fabric and enjoy it, trade it, even display it--all with a clear conscience. There are no fabric police that require you to actually use it. Right?