[quote=Favorite Fabrics]Hoffman only gives their fabrics numbers, not names... the pattern number is 8821. This is the cream/gold colorway (33G) but it does come on dark green and also black... and they did a tonal gray one too this year.

The Hoffman fabrics website had a snow globe pattern as well as other patterns using their fabric. I made the globe using some of their fabrics including the cardinal fabric. You can see it here

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-73276-1.htm

No but have a great stash that mostly still like a lot so hope to ride out high prices with out too many new purchases, but sometimes need to get something to finish a project.

No limit.

I went on a trip to Tasmania. I of course had to go to LQS. Little did I know that the fabric there was $29.00 a yard!!! BUT I just had to have something to remember my trip so I bought a couple of fat quarters.
So I guess my answer is $29.00 a yard. Ouch!!!

You quilters in the USA are so lucky.Here in Australia we pay up to $30 a metre (39inches).I try to buy most of mine from the cheaper stores at around $12,or when the sales are on it is $10

So far, the most I have spent(I think) per yard is $10.95 for a large Japanese print with cats that I couldn't leave behind. If a quilt requires specific fabrics like alot of the patterns in the current quilt magazines, I will try to rework it with Joann's fabrics or just not do it. I have bought kits that are over $100 and quilt shop BOMs with sashing kits, etc... that are usually in the $300 range total with the cost spread out over time. I usually top out supplies on a quilt to approximately $100-150 for the top/binding, batting is usually $20 (use coupons at Joanns) and $40 for backing(use 108inch wide muslin). I use grey thread for all piecing (colored for applique of course) which I buy in bulk. Quilting thread depends and usually tops out at $10-15. These costs are approximate since I think I would faint if I actually costed everything out as I did it.

I'm not sure I have a price per yard limit although I am trying to stay below the $10.99/yd stuff. But it depends on whether I have a specific project in mind or if I just simply like it and have to have some. I just spent $85 to make a 60 X 72 quilt (for the top only). I liked the fabric and so I really didn't look at the price per yard. But when I started cutting and piecing it I decided that one of the fabrics just didn't look right. It was one of those $10/yd stuff but I picked it out and luckily I had something in my stash that worked to replace it. Now that fabric I took out is set aside. Who knows what I will do with the pieces? I do look for sales but I also look for quality. I've traded fabrics and given away stuff and not thought about how much money was involved. I'm pretty generous with my fabrics and if a friend needs something I gladly offer it up knowing that if I need she will do the same. I don't shop on line as much as I'd like because I want to touch it & hold it next to other fabrics and so on. But I have on occasion found a fabric in a shop and then ordered it on line instead. When it comes to backings I generally do not use quiltshop fabrics. This is where I shop at Joanne's or on line for the best deals.

I try to have a limit of $9.50. I buy on sale and on line. I'm like a few other people if I really like it I will use it as the focal fabric and work around it. I have gone over the limit if I just fell in love. Then it is a special quilt. With the times like they are I'm more conservative. Try to buy at our LQS so they stay in business.

In Australia fabric is MUCH dearer! Usually quilting fabric is in the A$20-25 per metre, and very special fabrics are up to A$40 per metre. One has to think about how much one really needs.

I generally buy stuff I like when it is on sale - especially when it is 50% off. (Which means we are sometimes still paying $10 - $16 per metre). One of my local quilt shops generally has a reasonable price, compared to others, on his fabric. He also allows me to buy on lay-by. If you don't have that in the 'States, it is a method of time- payment where the shopkeeper holds the goods whilst you pay it off in instalments. You generally have about 8 weeks to pay, and then you pick up the goods. He is a good businessman, as he gives me unsolicited discounts from time to time because I shop often in his place and it is incentive for me to come back.
To answer your question more accurately - I would not pay more than the $26 per metre. Some fabrics are $75 per metre, but not in the shop I was speaking of.