Here in Aussie the average for good quality fabric is $23 - $29 unless you are lucky enough to get it on sale then usually half price.

Where in Sanford?? I live in Lakeland and will be going up to Winter Springs next week to visit at my son's!! I would love a side trip!

I paid $9.00 a yard yesterday for a nice Christmas blender and a pink and white on black print and I paid $10.50 a yard for a poinsettia on black print last Saturday.

I try to keep it under $8.00 a yard. Luckily, my stash is extensive. My BFF and I shopped at a favorite LQS just about every 2 months that was always having a sale. She said we were buying for our retirement. Here I am retired, and glad I have what I have because the closest LQS is now selling at $13.00 an hour. I won't pay those prices, with the exception if I was looking for a special small amount of fabric I needed for a special gift. Just this year I've become best friends with Connecting Threads. I saw their earlier fabric from years past and the current selection has hugely improved in quality, color, design and selection. Have also enjoyed buying charm packs. Love putting together a lap quilt with them. It satisfies my need for a large selection of new prints without breaking the bank or rupturing my overburdened stash boxes.

The prices are going;;; alot of LQS will go out of business. I really do not believe that fabric actually cost that much; I think its called greed. I won't pay more than $6.00 per yard.

I have bought very little fabric this year because I was on a buying binge last spring getting oriental fabrics. :) For the little quilt shop fabric I bought this year, I'd say average was $8-$9 a yard. I don't buy batiqs.

The prices aren't bothering me since I'm focused on finishing projects already started or using fabric I already have. If I need to buy fabric, it is just a purchase for background or finishing.

I have been really lucky on EBay. Got some beautiful Kansas Troubles Fat Quarters for 1.00 each! The shipping was only 5.95 as she put all 24 in a Flat rate envelope. I stop in Lancaster when I go by, but their stuff is getting high now too. Connecting Threads and Hobby Lobby are two of my favorites.

Fabric is 28 euro a metre here in Germany. I went to Karstadt in Wiesbaden yesterday and brought some for 4 euro-deep discount. I usually pay about 6-8 dollars a yard. I ordered from Favorite Fabrics last month and will probably continue to do so because the prices are pretty fair.

It's not called greed, it's called "trying to survive." Wholesale prices for high-quality LQS fabric (not the stuff you get at Wal-mart and Joanne's) are at or above your so-called limit of $6/yd when you factor in the cost of getting it into the shop. (We have to pay shipping too).

To sell at your theoretical maximum of $6/yd, most shops would be losing several dollars/yd when factoring in selling expenses.

If you're buying LQS-quality fabric at $6/yd, the shop is losing money on that sale, and is just trying to re-capture some cash to survive the month.

It's not greed.